■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
The world economy
The German problem
North Korea
Containing Mr Kim
Financial derisking
Forget whiter than white
Longevity
Over 65 shades of grey
The war against Islamic State
After the caliphate

■Letters
On Hungary, property transparency, Mexico, opioids, Shakespeare
Letters to the editor

■Briefing
The German economy
Vorsprung durch Angst

■United States
State shutdowns
Spot the governor
New York
Notes from underground
Health-care politics
Raining on the parade
California against the rest
The longest flush
Origin of the specious
Trump memes
The story of a shooting
Last ride home
Lexington
Teenage grit

■The Americas
Brazil’s armed forces
Enemies wanted
Archaeology in Mexico
Head count
Energy politics in Canada
Graveyard of the pipelines
Bello
Bird-watching in FARCland

■Asia
North Korea
The wrong kind of fireworks
Japanese politics
Tokyo blows
Australia’s aborigines
Counted but not heard
Housing in Singapore
The high life

■China
China and America
The end of the beginning
Animal welfare
Dog days of summer
Banyan
The emperor and the pesky spot

■Middle East and Africa
Islamic State in Iraq
Last days of the caliphate
Protests in Morocco
Rough in the Rif
Oman
Uneasy sits Qaboos
Intellectual property
Ethiopia’s cunning pirates
South African mining
Deep trouble

■Europe
Germany’s reluctant leadership
The Merkel doctrine
Cutting CO2 emissions
Without America, for now
Turkey
Heated opposition
Macron’s ambitions
The tasks of Jupiter
Charlemagne
The church of data

■Britain
Public-sector pay
The tipping-point
Fish wars
Have your fishcake and eat it
Defence policy after Brexit
Splendid isolation?
Fox’s bid for Sky
Monopoly games
Sports Direct
Boozy business
Tuition fees
Fees high, foes fume
Bagehot
Corbyn and the bourgeois dream

■International
Financial derisking
The great unbanking

■Special report
The economics of longevity
The new old
Working on
Footloose and fancy-free
Ageing rock stars
Rock around the clock
Consumers
Don’t call us silver
Finance
Your money and your life
Technology
Tablets for every problem
The longevity dividend
A blessing, not a burden

■Business
Virtual reality
Get real
Immersive experiences
VR in La La land
European airlines and Brexit
Brace position
Rosneft v Sistema
Russian brawl
Online hot-food delivery
We can be heroes
America’s beer market
Half-empty
Air India
Down the aisle
Schumpeter
My car’s sexier than yours

■Finance and economics
Brexit and the City of London
The City’s hazy future
Pensions
Pepped up
Payments
Acquirer acquired
Buttonwood
Cutting off their allowance
Japan-EU trade
Jeepa’s creepers!
Payday lending in Japan
Shark attack
BNP Paribas and Rwanda’s genocide
A long reckoning
Free exchange
Wage against the machine

■Science and technology
Photography
Wide-eyed and lensless
Additive manufacturing
Print me a brewery
Detecting explosives
Honing the hounds
Frogs
Failure to croak

■Books and arts
Evgeny Kissin
Class act
China and America
Fated to fight?
Racism in Australia
Shortcoming of the heart
Johnson
Learning from fingered speech

■Obituary
Simone Veil
Liberated

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, July averages
Markets