■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (5)

■Leaders
Arab revolutions
How to set Syria free (84)
Change in Russia
A Moscow spring? (6)
The rich world’s economy
Not quite party time (7)
Pakistan’s army and the law
The men in black v the men in green (4)
Resource nationalism in Africa
More for my people (2)

■Letters
Letters
On state capitalism and China, Greece, cluster munitions, the super-rich, Facebook

■Briefing
Syria’s crisis
The long road to Damascus (22)

■United States
Drugs policy
Pills and progress (4)
The Republican nomination
The Santorum surge (7)
Indecency and television
Giving the FCC the finger (33)
Gay marriage
Equal protection indeed (5)
Jobs and the economy
A game of two halves (6)
Segregation
The dream is getting closer (1)
Technology and the election
Boffins wanted (9)
Lexington
Obama’s “war on religion” (61)

■The Americas
Venezuela’s presidential campaign
Mano a mano (5)
Privatising Brazil’s airports
Fasten your seat belts (10)
Women in Mexican politics
The XX factor (4)

■Asia
Myanmar’s startling changes
Pragmatic virtues (5)
The Maldives
Reverting to type (2)
India’s last hangman
An executioner’s tale (19)
Japan’s electricity industry
Power politics (2)
Mobile phones in North Korea
Also available to earthlings
Banyan
My brothers’ keepers (7)

■China
Religion and the Communist Party
Render unto Caesar (33)
Reporting Chinese politics
Hidden news (18)

■Middle East and Africa
Israel and Iran
Closer to take-off (81)
Eyeing the Arab spring
Gloom and bloom (1)
Egypt’s turmoil
It goes on and on
Sudan and South Sudan
The mother of all divorces (1)
Resource nationalism in Africa
Wish you were mine (3)

■Europe
Russia’s protests
Just making our feelings known (5)
Romanian politics
New government, old problems (38)
Spanish politics
Rubalcaba’s cube (5)
Finland’s new president
A conservative first (7)
Greece’s woes
Brinkmanship in Athens (34)
German dialects
Teenagers’ argot (7)
Charlemagne
1789 and all that (16)

■Britain
The coalition’s performance
Pulled hither and thither (1)
Quantitative easing
Just more of the same? (2)
Beer
Brewers’ droop
The Tories and European justice
A legal bombshell (3)
Grammar schools
Natural selection (2)
Private equity
Keep calm and carry on
Manufacturing industry
The Midlandstand (1)
Bagehot
The death of meritocracy (10)
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■International
Swiss banking secrecy
Don’t ask, won’t tell (2)
Internet freedom and copyright law
ACTA up (3)

■Special report: Pakistan
Perilous journey(6)
Afghanistan
Too close for comfort(3)
Foreign policy
State of vulnerability
Politics
Captain’s innings(3)
Religion
In the shadow of the mosque(2)
The economy
Lights off(2)
A taste of Hunny
Poverty
Always with us
Violence
Dripping with blood
Water
Going with the flow(2)

■Business
Model economics
The beauty business
Cosmetic treatment for men
Beauty and the beasts (2)
Glencore and Xstrata
Ore inspiring (1)
Underpaid bosses
They really exist (6)
Planes and pollution
Trouble in the air, double on the ground (4)
India’s telecoms scandal
Megahurts (9)
Corporate governance
Not King Coal
Schumpeter
Of companies and closets (5)

■Finance and economics
Sovereign bonds
Oat cuisine
Buttonwood
Keep on trucking (9)
Short-selling
Getting to the naked truth (2)
The Korea discount
Minority report (1)
Credit cards in China
Citi building
Building competitiveness
A fare fight (1)
Free exchange
Go for the churn (1)

■Science and technology
Sex and love
The modern matchmakers (10)
Social networking for scientists
Professor Facebook (3)
Pollution in China
Clearing the air
Why zebra are striped
Horse sense (12)

■Books and arts
The first sexual revolution
Pleasure principles (1)
Pakistan’s future
Resilient mess (2)
The mystery of Mitt Romney
The puzzler (2)
Documentaries on Russia
Off balance (2)
Lucian Freud in London
Local hero
New fiction
Books of laughter and forgetting

■Obituary
Wislawa Szymborska (13)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Football wealth (2)
Markets