■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (3)

■Leaders
The euro zone
Is this really the end? (203)
The supercommittee fails
A downgrade for Congress (24)
Spain’s election
Big mandate, tight spot (8)
Egypt’s turmoil
The generals must go (12)
Shale gas
Frack on (6)
Policing internet piracy
Accessories after the fact (5)

■Letters
Letters
On the euro, shipping, toys, Azerbaijan, phrases, our obituary (1)

■Briefing
International justice
Cosy club or sword of righteousness?

■United States
Why the supercommittee failed
The last best hope (29)
The economy
Finally, some good news (5)
Gun control
Have firearm, can travel (6)
The Chicago River
Reflected glory (1)
Political fact-checking
Fun at the FactFest
Drinking rules
Behind the Zion curtain (1)
California’s dysfunctional politics
Help on the way (4)
Lexington
Terrible swift sword (13)

■The Americas
Politics in Brazil
Cleaning the Brasília pork factory (14)
Mexico’s changing drug war
Shifting sands (5)
Latin American integration
Peaks and troughs (3)
Electoral reform in Canada
A surfeit of MPs (6)

■Asia
Governing China
The Guangdong model (6)
Movement in Myanmar
Eye-rubbing (2)
Afghanistan’s post-war economy
Investing or a-whoring? (2)
Pakistan’s “memogate”
As you were (3)
Indonesia’s security reforms
Unholy muddle
Banyan
Tried and found wanting (1)

■Middle East and Africa
Egypt’s turmoil
Who will benefit from the chaos? (12)
Tunisia’s new government
Islamists and secularists at one (1)
Libya’s militias
Hard to control the cocky gunmen (1)
The Palestinians
May rival factions come together? (5)
Bahrain’s human-rights report
The king’s risky move (2)
Congo’s election
That sinking feeling (2)
South Africa and secrecy
Don’t blow the whistle (45)

■Europe
The Spanish election
Mañana belongs to Mariano
Angela Merkel and the euro
The new iron chancellor (13)
France and automation
Driverless, workless (2)
Turkey and human rights
Home thoughts from abroad (7)
Hungary’s economy
Planet Orban (16)
Poland’s government
Tusk sharpens up (14)
Charlemagne
The sinking euro (7)

■Britain
The economy
Autumn leaves falling (3)
Reviving manufacturing
No land of giants (1)
The press at bay
Celebs’ revenge (2)
Thomas Cook
A tour operator’s travails (3)
Political-party funding
Pay-per-vote (1)
Northern Ireland’s schools
Good, but not that good (1)
Beer’s snob appeal
Fancier pint? (2)
Bagehot
David Cameron, toxic Tory (1)
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■International
Online piracy
Rights and wronged (3)
Islam and comedy
Two mullahs went into a bar… (8)

■Special report: Women and work
Closing the gap(4)
Female labour markets
The cashier and the carpenter(1)
A world of bluestockings(1)
Work and family
Baby blues
Top jobs
Too many suits(3)
Women in China
The sky’s the limit(5)
Looking ahead
Here’s to the next half-century

■Business
Shale gas in Europe and America
Fracking here, fracking there (2)
A “green zone” for firms in Ciudad Juárez
Business on the bloody border (2)
Making aircraft
Full throttle (2)
E-commerce in China
The great leap online (1)
Indian business
The magical Mistry tour
Schumpeter
Built to last (2)

■Briefing
The euro
Beware of falling masonry (50)

■Finance and economics
India’s currency
Rupee and the bears (7)
American tax law
Scratched by the FATCA (5)
Japan’s stock exchanges
Listing, not keeling
Baltic banks
Red litas day (1)
Buttonwood
Gloom descends (2)
Economics focus
House of horrors, part 2 (14)

■Science and technology
Science in Japan
Where rats and robots play (2)
Mars exploration
How to land a Mini on Mars (1)
Climate change
Good news at last? (10)
AIDS
Get your act together, guys
Infantile anaemia
Blood simple (1)

■Books and arts
New fiction from Japan
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side (1)
American agribusiness
The power in the union
Artists and photographers
Point and paint (1)
Chinese export porcelain
Treasure trove
Fiction from Argentina
The price of love

■Obituary
George Daniels (10)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Pharmaceutical spending
Markets