■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (5)
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■Leaders
Xi Jinping
The man who must change China (266)
Afghanistan
Towards a better land (4)
Fiscal austerity
A deficit of common sense (38)
Egyptﾕs constitution
Make it tolerant (3)
Genetic medicine
Powering a cure

■Letters
Letters
On capitalism, inequality and Progressivism, Thomas Hobbes (2)
Briefing
Chinaﾕs new leadership
Vaunting the best, fearing the worst (9)

■United States
White working-class voters
Fed up with everyone (59)
The presidential debate
Third time lucky (26)
The air war
The ads take aim (3)
The swing states: Ohio
Coal or cars? (10)
The youth vote
Young, drifting but back (14)
Voices from the campaign
Heard on the trail
Access to the polls
Counting voters, counting votes (22)
Lexington
Give thanks for suburbia (5)

■The Americas
Brazilﾕs north-east
The Pernambuco model (34)
Foreign investment in Canada
Door wide shut (5)
Recycling in Mexico
Junk food

■Asia
Afghanistanﾕs hard road to 2014
All change (1)
South Koreaﾕs presidential race
Three-legged race
Nuclear workers in Japan
Heroism and humility (1)
Ship breaking in Bangladesh
Hard to break up (5)

■China
Capital outflows
The flight of the renminbi (5)
Prostitution
Old profession, new debate
Banyan
Embarrassed meritocrats (6)

■Middle East and Africa
Lebanon and Syria
Peering into the abyss (1)
Syriaﾕs civil war
The next battlefield
Kuwaiti democracy
A desert flower wilts
Egypt and Tunisia
New constitutions take shape
Gaza and Qatar
Bringing gifts to the Holy Land (2)
Zimbabweﾕs coming election
Fighting over a new rule book

■Europe
Ukraineﾕs future
The dictator of a pluralistic country (12)
Regional elections in Spain
A Basque case (13)
Elections in Sicily
Tip of the boot (2)
Magyar politics
Marching season (17)
Polish politics
Tusk, tusk (8)
Germanyﾕs federal states
Givers and takers (4)
France and football
The Swedish model (2)
Charlemagne
The battle of the budget (8)

■Britain
The Savile affair
A ghost and the BBC machine (4)
Young people
The continent generation (10)
The decline of clubbing
Less dance (1)
Rebellious MPs
Unleashed
Steelmaking in Wales
Coked up (2)
The economy
Donﾕt say ﾒgreen shootsﾓ (2)
Badgers
Winds of change (1)
Police and crime commissioners
Top cops (3)
Bagehot
Bluewash (4)
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■International
Election technology
Paper cuts (4)
Racing pigeons
Coo, how much? (1)
Constitutional quirks
Read the small print

■Special report: Technology and geography
A sense of place(4)
Local services online
Your friendly neighbourhood app(1)
Maps
The world in your pocket(1)
The geography of start-ups

■Something in the air
New Eindhoven
Urban life
Open-air computers(4)
Data centres
Not a cloud in sight(1)
National differences
The world is what you make it
Life off- and online
The new local

■Business
Microsoft and the launch of Windows 8
Tablets from on high (28)
Hitachiﾕs new strategy
No more Jack Welch lite
Siemensﾕs new strategy
Re-engineering
Horse-racing
A mareﾕs nest
The worldﾕs biggest construction companies
Great wall builders (2)
Online shopping
The rise of no-name designers (1)
The woes of Netflix
Looks bleak
Thai multinationals
Coming to a plate near you
Doing Business 2013
Getting better
Schumpeter
The global Mexican (3)

■Finance and economics
Spainﾕs fiscal woes
State of denial (2)
Government cuts
Parsing public payrolls (1)
Insurance in Asia
Tantalising but tough
Buttonwood
Signal failure
Sovereign credit-default swaps
Messenger shot, message not (1)
Why Greg Smith quit
Of Mammon and muppets
Index investing
Category fillers
Banks and big data
Shopping at the bank (1)
Free exchange
No short cuts (2)

■Science and technology
Gene therapy
Hello mothers, hello father (46)
The earthquake in LﾕAquila
A reason to tremble (6)
A scientific controversy
Feathers fly (2)
Dinosaur behaviour
Headbangers

■Books and arts
China
Millennial madness
Grimmﾕs fairy tales
Semper fidelis
Mathematics
A cloud Atlas (1)
The bank bail-out
Crisis mismanagement
History museums
Divine detour (1)

■Obituary
George McGovern (3)
Economic and financial indicators

■Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Foreign direct investment
Markets