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

■Leaders
Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation
Last of the moguls
India’s economy
One more push
Latin American politics
Lulismo v Chávismo
Women in the boardroom
The wrong way to promote women
China’s family planning
Illegal children will be confiscated

■Letters
On Google, aeroplane emissions, food, Libya, skinheads, phone-hacking, James Baldwin

■Briefing
Britain’s phone-hacking scandal
Wider still and wider

■United States
The debt ceiling
Scheme, stonewall and fulminate
Interstate sales taxes
The Amazon war
Drought in the South
Bone-dry
The Okefenokee fire
Cooking the swamp
The Teamsters choose a new boss
Still truckin’
Illegal immigration
Et in Alabama ego
Lexington
The Lone Star candidate

■The Americas
Peru’s new president
Promises and premonitions
Venezuela’s president
The sick man of Havana
Greenery in Canada
We have a winner
Football in Brazil
The bountiful game

■Asia
China’s population
Only and lonely
Kashmir’s future
Fleeting chance
The Philippines and remittances
The house that Saud built
Corruption in South Korea
Rotten shot
Indonesia’s middle class
Missing BRIC in the wall
Banyan
Diminishing returns

■Middle East & Africa
South African politics
A muddy few months ahead
East Africa’s famine
Disunited in hunger
Africa’s infrastructure
A road to somewhere
Yemen’s economy
Up the spout
Syria’s third-largest city
Laying waste to humble Homs
Israeli settlers on the West Bank
Might some stay?

■Business
Women in business
Still lonely at the top
Sheryl Sandberg
The acceptable face of Facebook
3D films struggle
Flat expectations
HTC’s patent problems
Android alert
American homebuilders
What goes down
Crowd-funding books
A novel idea
Dual-class share structures
The cost of control
Schumpeter
Great bad men as bosses

■Briefing
India’s economy
The half-finished revolution

■Finance and Economics
Chinese insurance
Where the state does too little
Buttonwood
Swiss gold
Europe’s stress tests
Disease and cure
Saving for retirement
The wrong number
Japan’s debt
The domino that never falls
Wall Street and the debt ceiling
Unthinkable?
Economics focus
The plough and the now

■Science & Technology
Epigenetics and stress
Baby blues
The rise of the dinosaurs
Pardon!
Eradicating polio
Late? Or never?
AIDS
No hiding place

■Books & Arts
Contemporary art in China
Chinese checkers
Reinhold Niebuhr
Ideas man
Financial markets
When devils strike
Phylloxera
Grape gripes
New fiction
Tower block

■Obituary
Betty Ford

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Working-age population
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Exchange rates against the euro