■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Rethinking the welfare state
Asia’s next revolution
Trade
Goodbye Doha, hello Bali
British universities
Picking on foreign students
Saving the euro
Tick tock
Drugs and emerging markets
Tripped up

■Letters
Letters
On Mitt Romney, currency mints, Brazilian mergers, Canada’s First Nations, women in business

■Briefing
Asian welfare states
New cradles to graves

■United States
The Democratic convention
Private effort, common good
Mayors at the convention
Urban nation
Abortion laws
And then there was one
Health-care services
The good old ways
Transport in cities
Vive la révolution
Air pollution
Breathing room
Lexington
Shindig fatigue

■The Americas
Quebec’s election
The separatists are back
Peru’s Shining Path
Still smouldering
Argentina’s dubious poverty line
The six-peso diet

■Asia
Strained relations between Japan and South Korea
Lame ducks and flying feathers
Bangladesh
Troubled waters
The blasphemy law in Pakistan
Contemptuous
India’s youngest chief minister
Another dynasty in trouble

■China
AIDS activism
Bad blood
Internet freedom
Plus ça change
The Catholic church
Serving two masters
Banyan
Too small an ocean

■Middle East and Africa
South Africa
It’s not just the mines
Reforming electricity in Nigeria
A bright spark is extinguished
Israel v Iran
Holding his horses for the moment
The Gulf
Those annoying democrats
War and diplomacy in Syria
No letting up

■Europe
The Netherlands votes
Cycling against windmills
A German wealth tax
Umfairteilung
Truth and power in Italy
Cash will do nicely, Silvio
Armenia, Azerbaijan and Hungary
The axeman goeth
Books about the French president
Decoding normality
Russia’s Far East
A bridge to Asia?
Charlemagne
Eurobankingfragilistic

■Britain
The reshuffle
All the right noises
Emigration
On the road
Violence in Northern Ireland
Fiery orange glow
British banks
The real scandal
Planning and greenery
Belt too tight
Alternative parties
Wilting greens
The Greens in Brighton
Beach party
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■International
The Paralympics
Blades of gold
Disability and business
The new green
Competitiveness
The wealth of nations

■Business
Political ads and media firms
Of mud and money
Indian drug patents
Taking pains
Crowdfunding video games
Money to play with
Car hire in Sierra Leone
The heart of the motor
American beer and spirits
Prohibition hangover
Small brewers in the Czech Republic
Czech pint
Schumpeter
Bargain bosses

■Finance and economics
International trade
Boxed in
Buttonwood
Rover the regulator
Sports investments
Losing their shirts
Legislation and investing
My little crony
Foreign investment in India
They just keep on keeping on
Bank bail-outs
Bad or rubbish?
Free exchange
The mystery of Jackson Hole

■Science and technology
Human genomics
The new world of DNA
Evolution
The nature of man
The science of conducting
Von Karajan was right
Restarting hearts
Crash course

■Books and arts
Gender politics
Female muscle
Female sexuality
Tunnel of love
Britain and the 18th century
Feat of clay
New American short stories
The curse of machismo
English literature
Epitaph for a poet
New American fiction
Failure of imagination
Correction

■Obituary
Sun Myung Moon

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