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

■Leaders
The LIBOR affair
Banksters
The Higgs boson
Science’s great leap forward
Education
A 20-year lesson
The euro crisis
Inching towards integration
Australia’s new taxes
Underland revenue

■Letters
Letters
On the Arctic, corruption, Egypt, Marco Rubio, France, renting, slavery, bees, terminology

■Briefing
The LIBOR scandal
The rotten heart of finance
The turmoil at Barclays
First-mover disadvantage

■United States
Education
Charting a better course
The future of Medicaid
Run for cover
Washington’s power cuts
Taken by trees
Fear of sequestration
Collateral damage
Catholicism in America
A contentious flock
Infrastructure spending
A patch on the road
Silicon Valley chic
Back to the garage
Lexington
What’s eating Appalachia?
Correction: Simon Anholt

■The Americas
Mexico’s election
The PRI’s qualified comeback
Television in Mexico
Channelling public anger
Venezuela’s presidential campaign
Tilting the pitch
Canadian politics
Time to flip

■Asia
The South China Sea
Roiling the waters
Biometrics in Afghanistan
The eyes have it
Pakistan and America
Making up, a bit
Australia’s fiscal reform
Tithes of discontent
Banyan
The idea of Myanmar
Correction: Timor-Leste

■China
Hong Kong and China
A city apart
Shanghai Film Festival
History is never just history
Fake degrees
A quick study

■Middle East and Africa
The crisis in Syria
The tide begins to turn
Syrian graffiti
Mocking him to death
The Sahel
Hungry again
A cultural assault in Mali
The jihadists’ frightening new front
Congo and Rwanda
Stop messing each other up
Religion in Africa
Celebrity priests

■Europe
France’s public finances
François Hollande’s fiscal puzzle
Turkey and its neighbours
Delicate balance
Denmark’s prime minister
Helle unfriended
Bulgaria’s economy
In a rough region
Circumcision in Germany
Incisive arguments
Russian politics
Gudkovs, bad cops
Charlemagne
A Greece or a Norway?

■Britain
Education reform
Testing the limits
Military reform
New model army
James Bond
From Britain with Love
Internet regulation
Wires crossed
The new director-general
A 10% better BBC
The Conservatives and Tony Blair
Acts of the apostles
Bristol and elected mayors
Shipshape?
Bagehot
Simple pleasures
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■International
The Vatican’s woes
God’s bankers
Short-wave radio
Tuning out
Holiday hell-holes
Danger zones

■Business Books Quarterly
The success of hedge funds
Masterclass
Eli Broad
Uncommonly unreasonable
Terry Leahy’s management
One to ten
Benjamin Graham
Figuring it out

■Business
Volkswagen
VW conquers the world
Advertising on mobile phones
Attack of the covert commercials
Mis-selling drugs
The settlers
Women managers in Asia
Untapped talent
British law firms
Taking the magic abroad
Airbus
Coming to America
Football
Equity 1, debt 0
Schumpeter
No rush

■Finance and economics
The world economy
Powering down
China’s capital controls
The more special economic zone
Oil prices
Rollercoaster
Buttonwood
Duncan dough notes
Seth Klarman
The Oracle of Boston
Free exchange
Move over

■Science and technology
The Higgs boson
Gotcha!
Dark matter
Material answers
Hunting asteroids
Rock on
The cheating side

■Books and arts
Segregation in cities
Living in black and white
Latin American fiction
A tragic hero’s tale
The future of Italy
Long life
Jeff Koons’s new sculptures
Sexy contemporary antiquities

■Obituary
Nora Ephron and Lonesome George
When Nora met George

■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, July averages
Markets