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

■Leaders
Modern medicine
Microbes maketh man
Paul Ryan
The man with the plan
Egypt’s president
Brothers in charge
Brazil
A moment of truth for Dilma
Banking reform
Sticking together

■Letters
Letters
On the House of Lords, spying, universities, narconomics, Jews, Hungarian history, plurals

■Briefing
The Catholic church in America
Earthly concerns

■United States
The Republican ticket
The Ryan roadshow
Medicare reform
A healthy difference
Domestic terrorism
The benefits of hindsight
Carbon capture
Going underground
Social Impact Bonds
Being good pays
Education
Extreme couponing
Lexington
Proposing Vice-President Ryan

■The Americas
Brazil’s economy
Facing headwinds, Dilma changes course
Rio de Janeiro’s Olympics
The countdown starts
Argentina’s capital
Tunnel vision
Mexico’s presidential handover
The waiting game

■Asia
ASEAN in crisis
Divided we stagger
History wars in North-East Asia
Ripping yarns
Afghanistan and the Taliban
The worm turns
Australia and asylum-seekers
Julia’s about-turn

■China
Xinjiang
Fast and loose
Tibetan blogging
Tweets from the plateau
Domestic violence
Beaten but unbowed
Banyan
China, Olympic victim?

■Middle East and Africa
Iran and sanctions
When will it ever end?
Iran and China
The latest invasion
The Gaza Strip
A building boom
Egypt’s president
New broom in action
Nigeria’s commercial capital
Destroying Makoko
South Africa and its Zulus
Zuma’s kingdom

■Europe
German economy
Europe’s tired engine
French politics
Liberté, égalité, fermeté?
Poland and the euro
Augustinian delay
Turkey’s Kurds
Violent times
Spanish savers
Unhappy holidays
Italian politics
Court closures

■Britain
Higher education
The best years of their lives
The Olympic legacy
Carrying the torch
Train franchises
The railway children
Pay TV and football
Sky 1, Ofcom 0
Culture in Scotland
Towards a new Enlightenment?
Financial markets
Chicago, Tokyo, Basildon
Bagehot
Generation Xhausted
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■International
Islam and technology
The online ummah
Muslim rituals
Preaching and practising
Islam and alcohol
Tipsy taboo

■Business
Consumer goods in Africa
A continent goes shopping
Avon in South Africa
Cosmetic difference
The New York Times
From BBC to NYT
Eike Batista
Batista battered
The economics of self-storage
The golden hoard
South Korea’s music industry
Top of the K-pops
Schumpeter
The silence of the Bollygarchs

■Finance and economics
Indian banks
Hold your nose
Standard Chartered v New York
An unsettling settlement
Universal banking
Together, forever?
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Law of the Jhungle
Derivatives exchanges
Open deck
Slovenia’s economy
Next in line
Global house prices
Searching for solid ground
Free exchange
On the origin of specie

■Science and technology
The human microbiome
Me, myself, us

■Books and arts
America and the politics of recovery
The big promise
American cookery
The broken mould
New American fiction
Leap of faith
New British fiction
Regenerated
New thriller
Beltway drama
Animals in Africa
Take a walk on the wild side

■Obituary
Bernard Lovell

■Economic and financial indicators
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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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Global business barometer
Markets