■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (5)

■Leaders
France and the euro
The time-bomb at the heart of Europe (826)
America’s taxes
Higher taxes the easier way (95)
The BBC
Picking up the pieces (10)
China’s new leaders
Time to choose (14)
Oil and gas
America’s oil bonanza (35)

■Letters
Letters
On our endorsement of Barack Obama, NATO, Japan, Grameen Bank, charities, Sandy

■Briefing
Adjustment in the euro zone
More and more and not enough (3)

■United States
Californian politics
Brownian motion (13)
The Petraeus affair
The man and his myth (32)
The cabinet
Room at the top
Tax reform
Opening bids (52)
Puerto Rico
The 51st state? (50)
Lincoln, the movie
How to be president (6)
Lexington
Taking the fight outside (4)

■The Americas
Oil in Brazil
The perils of Petrobras (4)
Murder in Sao Paulo
Mean streets, revisited (6)
Corruption in Quebec
Cleaning up (4)
Bolivia and Chile
Trickle-down diplomacy (7)
Cuban health care
Nip and tuck in

■Asia
Myanmar and America
Goodbye clenched fist, hello sweaty palm (7)
Constitutional crisis in Nepal
Ceremonial time (7)
Taiwan politics
Ma the bumbler (221)
Politics in Japan
The Kamikaze election (4)
Development in India
A tale of two villages (5)
Banyan
Tenth out of ten (1)

■China
China’s leaders
Changing guard (18)
Microblogs and the party
The naked emperor (5)
China’s new first lady
The voice behind the throne (4)

■Middle East and Africa
Palestine, Israel and the UN
Nerves are jangling again (197)
Libya
Rising from the ruins
Syria’s opposition
Higher hopes (4)
Syria’s Palestinians
Stateless and hapless as ever (2)
Somalia’s new government
It mustn’t be business as usual (2)

■Europe
German politics
When all parties lead to Angela (2)
The Club Med and the euro
Workers of Europe, protest! (5)
Turkey and the Kurds
Hunger and thirst (42)
Denmark’s food taxes
A fat chance (3)
Charlemagne
Europe’s British problem (28)

■Britain
Crisis at the BBC
Exterminate! (12)
National security
Shadowlands (1)
The motor industry
Taking the high road (4)
Coalition and the grassroots
Worm’s eye view (2)
Wind farms and renewable energy
A lot of hot air (12)
Measuring poverty
The end of the line (9)
Bagehot
Judge dread
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■International
Gay marriage
To have and to hold (42)
Private soldiers
Bullets for hire (2)

■Special report: France
So much to do, so little time(19)
The economy
Doing so-so(3)
Business
A lack of enterprise(2)
The provinces
Deep roots(1)
Losing its sparkle(3)
Foreign policy
Away and at home(4)
Politics
The mixture as before?(2)
The future
Look about you(1)

■Business
Chinese e-commerce
Pity the parcel people
Tobacco regulation
Look what they’ve done to my brands (3)
Sierra Leone
Of polls and profits
Video games
Japan fights back (1)
Canadian energy
The sands of grime (4)
Oil in America
Energy to spare (8)
Schumpeter
Museums of Mammon (2)

■Finance and economics
Credit-card companies
War of the virtual wallets (6)
Buttonwood
Converging world (3)
Jefferies and Leucadia
There’s the beef
Private equity in America
An end to the carry on (10)
Europe’s banking union
Made in Brussels (1)
Development aid
It doesn’t take a village (2)
China’s economic performance
The paramountest leader (1)
Interdealer brokers
At the sharp end
Free exchange
Border follies (7)

■Science and technology
Electric motors
Reluctant heroes (10)
Supercomputing
Deeper thought (1)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Battle ready? (1)

■Books and arts
Randomness, probability and uncertainty
Stress best (7)
Aid and trade
Dam lies
The euro
Eurogeddon (2)
Romantic poetry
The gospel according to John
Roger Scruton on his knees
Book of lamentations (1)
Classical music
Spiralling notes (1)

■Obituary
Farish Jenkins (1)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
Global business barometer
Markets