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

■Leaders
President Obama
Four more years?
China’s economy
Slow boats
Apple v Samsung
iPhone, uCopy, iSue
Africa, oil and the West
Show us the money
Central banking
The England job

■Letters
Letters
On the Catholic church, OMEGA, the Scottish Enlightenment, carbon capture and storage, notaries, children

■Briefing
Barack Obama’s economic record
End-of-term report

■United States
The Republican convention
Roused, but wary
Ron Paul’s campaign
The bitter end
Hurricane Isaac
Beyond the walls
Education
Move over, Dalton
The West Nile virus
Uninvited (2)
Lexington
As North Dakota goes…

■The Americas
Mexico and justice
The trials of Ernesto Zedillo
Colombia and the FARC
Talking about talks
Venezuela’s refinery disaster
A tragedy foretold

■Asia
Politics in Kyrgyzstan
Another faller
The war in Afghanistan
Green-on-blue blues
The Pacific Islands Forum
More stars than cars
Sri Lanka’s universities
Shuttered
Politics in India
Coalgate brushes dirtier
India’s vanishing Parsis
Not fade away
Banyan
Snow dragons

■China
Official discipline
Policing the party
Labour camps
Demanding justice
International tourism
Have yuan, will travel

■Middle East and Africa
The conflict in Syria
Worse and worse, and no end in sight
Egypt’s foreign policy
Independent―or not?
Yemen and the United States
Don’t drone on
The United Nations in Africa
Radio Ga Ga
Angola’s election
By hook or by crook
Angola’s heir apparent
It could be a long wait

■Europe
Turkish politics
Erdogan’s counterproductive ambition
French politics
A return to normality
The euro crisis
Another southern front
Russia and Islam
The end of peaceful coexistence?
Charlemagne
High gloom

■Britain
The Bank of England
The Old Lady bulks up
The politics of Heathrow
The air war
Personal data
Shameless self-promotion
Seasonal farm workers
Picky
Electing police commissioners
Slouching towards democracy
Changing London
Selling out
Articles flagged with this icon are printed only in the British edition of The Economist

■International
Rape laws
Crime and clarity
Copyright and the internet
Letting the baby dance
Food waste
Clean plates

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Sweeping below deck
A good kind of gas-guzzling
Encouraging hydrophobia
You, robot?
Catching a few more rays
No sow’s ear
Six degrees of mobilisation
A silent healer
Flushed with pride
Difference engine
Lost in cyberspace
Energy weapons
Zap, crackle and pop
Solar lighting
Lighting the way
Inside story
Look, no hands
Phase-change memory
Altered states
Brain scan
A knight in digital armour

■Business
Apple v Samsung
Swipe, pinch and zoom to the courtroom
Struggling smartphone-makers
Biting back at Apple
Indonesia’s car market
Stuck in fifth gear
Reviving India’s biggest fraud victim
Second life
Initial public offerings
Suspiciously quiet
Global express-package companies
And then there were three?
Schumpeter
Those bloody Scandinavians

■Finance and economics
Private equity in China
Hony ahoy
The global economy
Summertime blues
Buttonwood
Democracies and debt
Barclays’ new boss
The anti-Bob
Foreign banks in India
Into another country
Online payments
Virtual spring
Art insurance
Paint threshold
Free exchange
The geography of poverty
Corrections: Mexico’s stockmarket and inflation in India

■Science and technology
The arrow of time
Backward ran sentences…
The demographic transition
More or less
Space lifts
A lunatic idea?
Beer drinking
Shape up!

■Books and arts
The restaurant business
Eat up
A history of power
The mighty coin
New British fiction
The writer and the spy
Paul Volcker
Tall tale
Otters in the wild
Beguiling carnivores
A history of mapmaking
Views of the world

■Obituary
Neil Armstrong

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Arms sales to developing countries
Markets