■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon (7)

■Leaders
Russia’s presidency
The beginning of the end of Putin (188)
Companies and productivity
Small is not beautiful (9)
North Korea’s nuclear weapons
A horse worth the price (42)
China’s capital controls
Set the money free (14)
How to rig an election
Weighing the votes (14)

■Letters
Letters
On the Dodd-Frank act and regulation in America, gays in the workplace, cowboys (2)

■Briefing
Putin’s Russia
Call back yesterday (8)

■United States
The Republican race
Mitt Romney dodges a bullet (6)
Abortion in Virginia
McDonnell’s not-so-magic wand (5)
The Senate
It’s Snowe fun any more (9)
The housing market
Holding back the spring (5)
A sperm bank for elephants
The big freeze (9)
Prayer in public schools
No place to bend the knee (2)
Policing drug sales
Cleaning up the ’hood (23)
Lexington
One nation under gods (35)

■The Americas
Ecuador
The media and the mouth (6)
São Paulo’s mayoral race
The big beast (7)
Colombia’s FARC
Deliverance? (1)
Electoral malpractice in Canada
Delayed reaction (24)
Peru’s Shining Path
One down

■Asia
North Korean nuclear progress
Leap of faith (11)
South Korea’s media
No news is bad news (1)
Poverty in Japan
Shadowy figures (1)
Australian politics
We no longer need to talk about Kevin (15)
Afghanistan’s crisis of trust
Too dangerous to help (11)
Banyan
Bleak House (4)

■China
The politics of economic reform
The bees get busy (3)
The economics of reform
Stoking the furnace (1)
Hong Kong politics
The rigging unravels (5)

■Middle East and Africa
Saudi Arabia
Out of the comfort zone
Syria’s crisis
Into the meat-grinder (31)
Arab diets
Feast and famine (2)
Iranian television
Barrel of laughs (1)
Nigeria’s finance minister
The iron lady (2)
South Africa’s cemeteries
Move over, brother
Correction: Somalia

■Europe
Portugal and the euro
The uncertainty society (10)
Ireland and the euro
Kenny’s heroes? (7)
Illegal immigration
The crossing point (2)
Politics in Greece
Election games
Politics in Italy
The party’s over (2)
The French election
Squeezing the rich (6)
Charlemagne
Tough talk, no strategy (2)

■Britain
Electing the Lords
A house divided (3)
Homophobia
It’s getting better (4)
Drugs policy
Let the qat out of the ban
Welfare reforms
Can work, won’t work (2)
Lloyd’s of London
Risky business
Immigration and settlement
Locking the barn door (1)
Film in Northern Ireland
Welcome to Holywood
Bagehot
David Cameron’s race problem (3)
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■International
Election fraud
How to steal an election
Smart campaigning
Spreading the m-word
Election monitoring
Appservers
Passport design
Hue and cry (1)
Wild meat
Squirrel nutcase (2)

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
What happened to the flying car?(8)
We’ve got it covered
Reviving autopsy(2)
An open-source robo-surgeon
Pumping ions(1)
Pivoting pixels
No more whirly-splat
Starting from scratch
Meaningful gestures
This is not a video game(2)
Difference engine
Unblinking eyes in the sky(2)
DNA computing
Computing with soup
Energy storage
Packing some power(1)
Inside story
Can the scientists keep up?
The quantified self
Counting every moment(1)
Brain scan
Taking the long view(1)

■Business
Indian takeovers abroad
Running with the bulls (8)
News Corporation’s travails
Rising Sun, setting son (3)
Self-driving cars
Safer at any speed? (4)
Myanmar gets ready for business
Opening soon
IT in Myanmar
Yangon’s digital spring (1)
Fashion retailers and social media
The buying game
Retail fraud
Return to vendor: a dress on loan
Schumpeter
Now for some good news (4)

■Finance and economics
Global poverty
A fall to cheer (4)
Carbon prices
Breathing difficulties
The euro crisis
A firewall full of holes (18)
Buttonwood
Short-changed (4)
Japan’s currency
Wonupmanship (1)
Canada’s pension funds
Maple revolutionaries
Free exchange
Decline and small (2)

■Science and technology
Bunker-busting
Smart concrete (59)
Police line-ups and psychology
Unusual suspects (1)
Human reproduction
Life begins at 45
Radiation and evolution
Surviving fallout (4)

■Books and arts
Quantum physics
House of dreams (2)
World sport
Play up and pay the game
India today
Mixed blessings
Documentary film-making
Face of an angel
New fiction
Stuck at year zero
Discovering Matisse and Picasso
Americans in Paris (1)

■Obituary
M.R.D. Foot (5)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs (3)
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Wall Street bonuses
Markets