■The world this week
Politics this week (3)
Business this week (1)
KAL’s cartoon (11)

■Leaders
The hopeful continent
Africa rising (136)
Britain’s economy
Into the storm (41)
Climate change
The sad road from Kyoto to Durban (15)
Afghanistan and the West
How to end it (10)
Reform in India
Let Walmart in (39)

■Letters
Letters
On airlines, space telescopes, American politics, Mexico’s army, the Sex Pistols, goatee beards (1)

■Briefing
Afghanistan
What comes next (8)
Pakistan and America
Till deaths us do part (8)

■United States
The Republican nomination
The day of the Newt (33)
Private equity and the election
Mitts off (2)
Taxes and disinvestment
Illinoyed (2)
Visas for dollars
Give me your Gucci-clad masses (18)
Broadband in rural America
Sweet land of subsidy (5)
Congressional redistricting
Turf wars (2)
Marijuana in California and Colorado
Highs and laws (13)
Lexington
Left, right and centre (14)

■The Americas
Protecting Brazil’s forests
Fiddling while the Amazon burns (6)
Governance in the Amazon
Pará-statals (2)
Crime and punishment in Canada
Bang ’em up (26)
Social progress in Latin America
Good tidings from the south (6)

■Asia
Myanmar and America
A new Great Game? (50)
India’s Maoists
Red retreat (2)
Campaigning in Taiwan
Of pigs and persimmons (2)
Sri Lanka’s former child soldiers
Not reunited (17)
China’s economy
Poor by definition (3)
Banyan
Tribal Japan (2)

■Middle East and Africa
Egypt’s election
Islamists of every stripe to the fore (39)
Morocco’s election
Yet another Islamist victory (1)
Yemen’s turmoil
Has he really gone?
Sanctions against Syria
As effective as bullets, maybe (8)
The Gulf
Still rich but no longer so calm
Nationalisation in South Africa
A debate that will persist (6)
Corruption in Nigeria
Dragon-slayers wanted (1)

■Europe
France and the euro crisis
The ratings game (36)
Sweden and the euro
Out and happy (14)
Italy’s new government
Mountains still to climb (4)
Georgia’s political future
Misha challenged (10)
The Balkans and Europe
Hard pounding (2)
Belgium’s new government
An end to waffle? (3)
Charlemagne
The horsemen approach (43)

■Britain
The politics of austerity
A battalion of troubles (4)
Capital spending
Weapons of mass construction (3)
Affluence in austerity
Rich pickings (3)
Scots and alcohol
The battle of the bottle (1)
Espionage
Red faces
Public libraries
Checked out (2)
Bagehot
Impossible, indispensable France (2)
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■International
Climate-change talks
Wilted greenery (2)
Arms control
Dead munitions (1)
Correction: Omid Djalili (1)

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
More than just digital quilting(4)
A classic invention(2)
Return of the human computers(3)
Indolent or aggressive?(1)
Spotting the rot
Sticky fingers
And the winners were…
Difference engine
The devil in the details
Seasteading
Cities on the ocean(4)
Breaching the body’s defences
Getting past the guards(1)
Inside story
Resistance is futile(3)
Flywheels
Reinventing the wheel(3)
Brain scan
Seer of the mirror world(2)

■Business
Indian retail
The supermarket’s last frontier (8)
Drugmakers
Cliffhanger (3)
American Airlines
Excess baggage (2)
Ted Forstmann
Large and little (1)
Facebook and privacy
Sorry, friends (9)
Telecoms networks
Two’s company (1)
Business education
Field of dreams (8)
Schumpeter
Khaki capitalism

■Briefing
Africa’s hopeful economies
The sun shines bright (10)

■Finance and economics
Bank funding
The dash for cash (22)
Hedge funds
Dazed and confused (5)
American banks
Contagion? What contagion? (13)
Buttonwood
For whom the toll sells
A financial regulator under fire
Unsettling Wall Street (6)
American municipal finances
The sewers of Jefferson County
Insurance in China
Growing pains
Economics focus
The big push back (2)

■Science and technology
DIY biofuels
The fat of the land
Palaeontology
The hare and the tortoise
Foie-gras production
How much is too much? (13)
Invasive species
Boom and bust (1)
Apology (3)

■Books and arts
The collapse of the Soviet Union
Russia’s imperial agony (5)
New film
Method in the madness (1)
Richard Holbrooke
Bullish and bullying (2)
A coup fiasco in west Africa
A bad Mann (1)
The English gentry
Happy landings
Richard Branson
Ricky’s schemes (6)

■Obituary
Emeka Ojukwu (18)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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Markets