■The world this week
Politics this week (2)
Business this week (1)
KAL’s cartoon (4)

■Leaders
Facebook
A fistful of dollars (128)
The future of Fleet Street
Fit to print (5)
France’s presidential election
Hey, big spender (5)
China’s economy
Time for a property tax (5)
America’s retreat from Afghanistan
The spectre of comparisons (5)

■Letters
Letters
On climate change, Alberta’s energy fields, Japan, ”tabling”, Romania, India, airlines, online piracy, shopping, fitness (2)

■Briefing
Floating Facebook
The value of friendship (4)

■United States
The Republican nomination
The big bellwether swings for Romney (14)
Fund-raising
The money primary (2)
The economy
A hair of the dog (1)
Unionisation
Another one takes the plunge (3)
Chinese college students
Making ting tong cool (12)
Gang violence
Turf wars (1)
Lexington
The classes drift apart (21)

■The Americas
Canada’s housing market
Look out below (5)
Baseball in Latin America
Draft dodgers no more (2)

■Asia
America in Afghanistan
Outta here (11)
Papua New Guinea
Desperate fling
Politics in Malaysia
Najib at bay (2)
Myanmar and Singapore
Among friends (1)
Politics in India
UP, down, sideways (1)
Banyan
The devil in the deep blue detail (3)

■China
Taxing China
Pay and play (1)
Tibetans and the Chinese state
No power to pacify (16)
Hong Kong and the mainland
Dogs and locusts (12)

■Middle East & Africa
Arab spring economies
Unfinished business (2)
Senegal’s election
Two terms and maybe you’re out
Health care in Sierra Leone
It’s up to you
Race in South Africa
Still an issue
Social media
#AfricaTweets (3)

■Europe
French politics
And they’re off (15)
Germany’s intelligence services
Protection racket
Germany and eastern Europe
Love in a cold climate (7)
Spain’s regions
The centre tries to hold (3)
Portugal’s problems
The next special case? (5)
Pollution in the Netherlands
Dirty dikes (1)
Charlemagne
Angela the lawgiver (7)

■Britain
Press regulation
Guarding the guardians
Bashing finance
Royal Bank of Salem (4)
Locating airports
Hub caps (4)
Universities
Pile them high (2)
The farming boom
Muck and brass
The coalition and Europe
The veto that wasn’t
Policing reform
Body count
Bagehot
Lessons from a great school (2)
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■International
Islam and homosexuality
Straight but narrow (16)
Political violence and trauma
Beaten but unbowed
Neglected tropical diseases
Hot tropic

■Business
Carlos Slim
Let Mexico’s moguls battle (1)
Fighter jets
Bomb bays to Delhi (7)
Big boats
Offshore finance
Health care in America
Shopping around for surgery (2)
Accounting in China
Seeing the forest for the trees (1)
Bakers and chaebol in South Korea
Let them eat cake (1)
Schumpeter
The coming retail boom (9)

■Finance and economics
The Reserve Bank of India
Pulling every lever
Malaysia’s central bank
Serene but surprising
China and rare earths
Of metals and market forces (1)
Japanese banks
Quietly does it
Buttonwood
The war on finance (4)
Weather derivatives
Come rain or shine
Investment banking
Bonfire of the bankers
Free exchange
The silent bazooka (2)
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■Science and technology
The nature of humanity
What’s a man? (3)
Synaesthesia
Smells like Beethoven (2)
Scientific publishing
The price of information (9)
Biomimetics
Not a scratch (1)

■Books and arts
Contemporary art
Cosmic queen
The future of universities
Troubled halls (1)
The making of Rin Tin Tin
Dog dreams
Tax reform in America
A simple bare necessity (4)
Gay writing in America
Stories of consenting adults
New fiction from India
Lotus-eaters

■Obituary
Jonathan Keith “Jack” Idema

■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, February averages
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