■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
The presidency
So, Mitt, what do you really believe?
The Horn of Africa after Meles Zenawi
Bye-bye big man
Japan and China
Barren rocks, barren nationalism
The euro crisis
The Finn red line
Mobile-money services
Let us in

■Letters
Letters
On Paul Ryan, the euro zone, Japan, Ofcom, lunchtime drinking, the long jump

■Briefing
Mitt Romney’s chances
The changing man

■United States
Crime in cities
America’s safer streets
The Todd Akin affair
Grenades and stilettos
America and China
Working partners
Atheism
Growing disbelief
Immigration law
Out of the shadows
Lexington
Attack and defence

■The Americas
Ecuador and Julian Assange
An Ecuadorean history of the world
Antitrust law in Brazil
A champion for choice?
Canada’s First Nations
More pow than wow
The Dominican Republic
Medina’s turn
Correction: Brazil’s economy

■Asia
India’s north-east
A neglected crisis
Australia’s two-track economy
Hitched to the China wagon
An arrest in Vietnam
Touchable after all
The press in Myanmar
Up to a point, Lord Copper
Banyan
Nuclear profusion

■China
China and Japan
Relations on the rocks
Chinese justice
Punishing the powerful
Nationalism in Hong Kong
Patriot games

■Middle East and Africa
Ethiopia’s prime minister
The man who tried to make dictatorship acceptable
Somalia’s government
Baby steps
South Africa’s mines
In the pits
Syria’s rebels
More than they can chew

■Europe
Norway and terrorism
From hero to knave
European tax diplomacy
A punch for honest taxpayers?
Interpreting Angela Merkel
The subversive chancellor
The Dutch election
Leftward tilt
Romanian politics
The fight over the judiciary
Italy’s public finances
The boat-tax war

■Britain
Unhealthy Glaswegians
No city for old men
Scotswomen and independence
Just say yes
Premier Foods
Brands hatched
Social housing
An Englishman’s castle
Stand-up comics
Serious business
Bagehot
The law of averages
Correction: Olympics know-how
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■International
Singletons
The attraction of solitude
Maritime disputes
Make law, not war

■Business
The travel business
The ineluctable middlemen
The future of printers
Printers sink
Apple
A good Cook
Delivery lockers
Delivering the goods
Education technology
Another click on the wall
Innovation in Africa
Upwardly mobile
Schumpeter
The mommy track

■Finance and economics
Finland and the euro crisis
Northern gripes
One-firm economies
The Nokia effect
Mexico’s stock exchange
Elektric shock
Swiss private banks
Bär’s leap
Sinodependency
Teenage angst
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Back to black
Inflation in India
Who cares about the price of onions?
Free exchange
Arrested development

■Science and technology
Terrestrial ecology
NEON light
Computer viruses
A thing of threads and patches
Genetic damage and paternal age
Father figures
Repairing voices
Good vibrations

■Books and arts
The first Vietnam war
Hope and hubris
Japanese history
Selective memory
New documentary: “The Queen of Versailles”
All fall down
Stories of espionage
Spies like her
Modernism in literature
Rumble and roar
New fiction
Promises, promises
The Venetian roots of modern finance
By the numbers

■Obituary
Winnie Johnson

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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Farmland prices
Markets