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

■Leaders
The euro
Tempted, Angela?
North Korea
Loosen your belts
High-frequency trading
Wait a second
Pensions
Social security with Chinese characteristics
Britain’s feuding coalition government
Suicide pact

■Letters
Letters
On Europe’s entrepreneurs, business regulations, Mitt Romney, India’s blackout, railways, algorithms

■Briefing
Breaking up the euro area
The Merkel memorandum

■United States
The Romney campaign
Battle stations
The economy
No miracle cure
Higher education in California
One state, two systems
Municipal broadband
The need for speed
Demography
Virility symbols
Recreational vehicles
Home on the road
The Arizona sixth-district race
When insurgents are incumbents
Lexington
How not to manage a boom

■The Americas
Telecommunications in Brazil
The next big blackout?
Venezuela’s army
The vote that counts
Fishing in Chile
Net profits

■Asia
North Korea
Where the sun sinks in the east
Corruption in India
In Vinod we trust
Japan and the world’s troubled eels
Slip-sliding away
Politics in Fiji
Election gambits
Banyan
Sitting duck

■China
Pensions
Fulfilling promises
The trial of Gu Kailai
Going quietly

■Middle East and Africa
Egypt, Israel and Sinai
The need for triangular co-operation
The struggle for Syria
An ever-lonelier leader
Syria’s rebels
Who will come out on top?
The Niger Delta
Still an oily dangerous mess
South Africa
Gang warfare

■Europe
Europe’s far right
Culture matters more
France’s National Front
Dédiabolisation
The euro and Greece
Postcard from the edge
Turkish politics
The ephemeral Alevi opening
Italian politics
The gloves are off

■Britain
The London games
The joy of the nudge Olympics
De La Rue
Cash machine
Drug prices
All cut up
Entrepreneurs
The right stuff
Fishing in Scotland
The prawn ultimatum
Bagehot
Glory and hope
Clarification: Public service outsourcing
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■International
Notaries
Breaking the seals
Fake ID cards
Identity crisis

■Business
Manufacturing in India
The masala Mittelstand
Drinking at work
The boredom of boozeless business
Sharp and Hon Hai
Law of the jungle
Pfizer
Taking its medicine
Electric power
Slow burners
Summer camps
Camps for scamps
Over-the-top phone services
Joyn them or join them
Schumpeter
The other Arab spring

■Finance and economics
Standard Chartered
My dollar, my rules
Buttonwood
The power of faith
Automated trading
The Lazarus of Wall Street
The microeconomics of complaining
Making moaners pay
Investing in Brazil’s infrastructure
The road forsaken
The European Central Bank
Draghi’s plan
Free exchange
Baby monitor

■Science and technology
Climate change
Bell weather
Human evolution
Ask the family
Repurposing drugs
Virtually there
Curiosity’s successful landing
Falling onto Mars

■Books and arts
New fiction
Delinquent dining
ExxonMobil
Oozing success
Drugs policy
Reefer madness
New fiction from Palestine
Beyond the barbed wire
North Korea
The worst place on earth
American essays
Master of the form

■Obituary
Gore Vidal

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