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

■Leaders
The geology of the planet
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Australia's promise
The next Golden State
Austerity in southern Europe
Spain's cry of pain
The IMF
Time for a change
Hope in Nigeria
Hail the useful chief

■Letters
On American labour, innovation, Croatia, African agriculture, Irish history, FIFA

■Briefing
Nigeria's prospects
A man and a morass

■United States
Jon Huntsman
Picture perfect
The New York special election
Rejecting Congressman Ryan
The defence budget
In the firing line
Prison overcrowding
A win for dignity
Conservatives and criminal justice
Right and proper
The Texas budget
Closing the gap
The Rapture
Paradise postponed
Lexington
The kosherest nosh ever

■The Americas
Mexico's presidential election
Campaigning against crime
Argentina's presidential race
Will she, won't she?
A settlement in Honduras
Homeward bound
A Canadian hazard
Moose v motorist

■Asia
Liberalism under attack in China
Boundlessly loyal to the great monster
China in Laos
Busted flush
American forces in Japan
Another lost year
India in Africa
Catching up
Unsafe Pakistan
Wishful thinking
Banyan
A double bind

■Middle East & Africa
The United States, Israel and the Arabs
You can't make everyone happy
Palestine's own negotiations
Hamas is itself divided
Syria
Unhappy in Homs
The battle for Libya
Not so quiet on the western front
Food in Africa
A recipe for riots
Sudan's split
A last-minute hitch?

■Europe
Spanish politics
The unhappy campers
Italy slumbers
United in apathy
After DSK
What did they know?
Dutch politics
Neither in nor out
A less disruptive eruption
Turkish sex scandals
Feeling blue
Ratko Mladic
Caught at last
Charlemagne
The Obama tonic

■Britain
Privacy and the law
Keeping secrets in the age of tweets
Britain and America
Essential, but fraying
North Sea oil
A deeper hole
Care for the elderly
An age-old problem
Business and skills
Restraining training
London's stockbrokers
The City that never shrinks
Charity and volunteering
Time and money
Bagehot
Britain's feral press: a plan

■International
FIFA's presidential election
Beautiful game, ugly politics
When states are sinking
I am a rock, I am an island

■A special report on Australia
No worries?
The case for complacency
She'll be right
Super-duper supers
The case for action
Be prepared
High dollar, high dolour
People
The evolving platypus
The environment
A preference for green
Foreign policy
Home alone
Politics
Politician, heal thyself
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Drug companies in America
The costly war on cancer
Academic publishing
Of goats and headaches
Nuclear power in Germany
No one listens to Jürgen Grossmann
Sony and its boss
Stringer theory
Works councils in France
Carry on camping
Airport privatisation
Runways required
Corporate crime
Give a little whistle
Schumpeter
Building with big data

■Briefing
The Anthropocene
A man-made world

■Finance and Economics
China and the world economy
Crosstown traffic
Buttonwood
Faith and the markets
Europe's debt crisis
World's worst menu
Ireland's chances of recovery
Celtic cross
Frozen warrants in Hong Kong
A $45m typo
The financial crisis on film
Not quite Normandy
Mobile payments in America
Money? There's an app for that
Economics focus
Drain or gain?

■Science & Technology
Plasmodium vivax
The other malaria
Educational psychology
Now you know
Stellar evolution
Slowing down in old age
Forest conservation
Lidartector

■Books & Arts
Migration
The future of mobility
18th-century migrants
The jostling Johnstones
Conspiracy theories in America
One born every minute
The history of spin bowling
Cricket's revolutionaries
Palestinians in Israel
There may be trouble ahead
New cinema
A movable feast

■Obituary
Garret FitzGerald

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP and trade growth
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Bond funds