■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon

■Leaders
France’s election
The rather dangerous Monsieur Hollande
Scientific freedom and security
The world’s deadliest bioterrorist
The Syrian conundrum
Time to get tougher
Digital data
Bit rot
The Sudans at loggerheads
Africa’s next big war?
London’s mayoral race
Right man, wrong job

■Letters
Letters
On Scotland, Germany, taxation

■Briefing
France’s presidency
The man of the moment

■United States
Immigration politics
The nativist millstone
The high price of tax breaks
Not so easy
The transport bill
Just the ten extensions
North Carolina and the death penalty
A jury of whose peers?
Orrin Hatch forced into a primary
Reading the tea leaves
Community colleges
Restoration drama
Etan Patz
Little lad still lost
Lexington
Are the Republicans mad?

■The Americas
The UN in Haiti
First, do no harm
Venezuela’s judiciary
Whistle-blown
The Colombian-Venezuelan border
Pick your poison

■Asia
Afghanistan and the United States
Agreement, at last
Asian missiles
Rocket salad
The South China Sea
Shoal mates
Asian economic rankings
A game of leapfrog
Political shenanigans in Mongolia
Steppe in an ugly direction
Malaysia’s next general election
Middle class, centre ground
Banyan
A fly in the ointment

■China
Models of development
Chongqing rolls on
The film industry
The monkey and the mouse

■Middle East and Africa
Sudan v South Sudan
Close to the brink
Reforming Nigeria
Back to the day job
South Africa and polygamy
Swimming against the tide
Mobile money in Africa
Press 1 for modernity
Muslims and Jerusalem
Pilgrims’ plodding progress
Syria’s rebel fighters
Bullets and home-made bombs

■Europe
The Dutch government
Waving but then drowning
Serbia’s elections
Cliffhangers
Czech politics
Wobbled, not toppled
Politics in Italy
What comes next
Turkey and the army
Military meddles
Germany’s Pirate Party
The ayes have it
Charlemagne
Kicking against austerity

■Britain
Britain’s stuttering economy
Double-dip trouble
The Leveson inquiry
Fatal attraction
Local elections
Day of dread
The battle for Glasgow
Two left feet
Urban design
Road warriors
Northern Ireland
Thin skins, thick bills
Crowdfunding football
Buy this team
Bagehot
The pen is mightier
Internship
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■International
Digital archiving
History flushed
Teenage mortality
The hazards of youth
Video surveillance
I spy, with my big eye

■Business
Walmart
Walmart’s Mexican morass
Dewey & LeBoeuf
With a bang, not a whimper
Solar power in India
Waiting for the sun
Healthy snacks in Japan
The joy of soy
Transport in Japan
Bullet v budget
Johnson & Johnson
Out of the mire?
Nestlé buys Pfizer Nutrition
Feeding little emperors
Schumpeter
Simplify and repeat

■Finance and economics
Remittance corridors
New rivers of gold
Hong Kong property
Mid-levels they ain’t
Buttonwood
The great divide
Sovereigns v creditors
Deferring to Leviathan
The euro zone’s rescue fund
Funny money, fuzzy maths
Spanish banks
False summit
BTG Pactual goes public
Back to basics
Building euro-zone competitiveness
Mobile moans
Free exchange
Petrodollar profusion

■Science and technology
Mining asteroids
Going platinum
Scientific freedom and security
Jail-bird flu
Genomic research
Consent 2.0

■Books and arts
Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation
Stringfellows
New American fiction
Roiling waters
New British fiction
Blue notes
Jonathan Franzen’s non-fiction
Purposefully dreaming
Immortality
For ever and ever
The unconscious mind
Hidden depths
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■Obituary
Chuck Colson

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