■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon (7)

■Leaders
Britain’s economy
How is it really doing? (44)
Climate change
Can China clean up fast enough? (143)
Computer hacking
A byte for a byte (4)
Italian politics
Addio, Silvio (45)
Legal highs
A new prescription (4)

■Letters
Letters
On tax reform, cochlear implants, outdated acts, gift-giving, paying MPs, treating mental illness, home-brewing, crime, entrepreneurs

■Briefing
China and the environment
The East is grey (14)

■United States
Barack Obama and the war on terror
Taking no chances (21)
America and Russia
No speaks (26)
Executive misbehaviour (1): San Diego
Just a little local difficulty
Executive misbehaviour (2): Virginia
Gifts galore (1)
Dysfunctional Illinois
No play, no pay (3)
The Baseball Hall of Fame
We’ll get ’em next year (4)
Lexington
Keeping the mighty honest (15)

■The Americas
Corruption in Venezuela
The billion-dollar fraud (8)
Brazil’s opposition
Own goals (17)
Social networking in Latin America
Follow the leader (1)
Correction: Cuba

■Asia
Thailand’s economy
The rice mountain (15)
Taiwan’s army
Blooded (1)
Japan and China
Fishing trips (6)
Japanese security
Wide-mouthed frog (17)
Australian politics
Trust v fair dinkum (4)
Bangladesh’s volatile politics
The battling begums (6)
Banyan
Conquerors of kings? (2)

■China
Aviation
Crowded skies, frustrated passengers (2)
Food safety
Spilt milk (11)
Anti-abortion activism
Uncommon cause (1)

■Middle East and Africa
Elections in Zimbabwe
Stealing the vim from Zim (15)
Syria’s civil war
A flower in the desert (3)
Syria’s war economy
Bullets and bank accounts (3)
The Middle East’s migrant workers
Forget about rights (2)
The Israel Defence Forces
Taking wing (3)

■Europe
Italian politics
L’Italia giusta v political expediency (4)
Alpine dress
The Lederhosen boom (7)
Turkish politics
Justice or revenge? (10)
Hungary’s Roma
How to get out of a vicious circle (20)
Spain and Gibraltar
Like North Korea? (51)
Social media and French
Nous twitterons (9)

■Britain
Living standards
Squeezing the hourglass
Organised crime
Farewell to the heist (2)
Lloyds Banking Group
Industrial revolution
The price of the performing arts
Pit performance (1)
Social workers
First, care
Subsidies for working mothers
Keep it in the family
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■International
The Indosphere
Made outside India (79)

■Business
Business and cyber-crime
Firewalls and firefights (8)
Mexico’s oil industry
Unfixable Pemex (3)
American newspapers
Chasing paper profits (1)
Commercialising neuroscience
Brain sells (1)
Browser wars
Chrome rules the web (11)
Italian manufacturing
A washout (1)
Schumpeter
Cronies and capitols (5)

■Finance and economics
Europe’s bail-out programmes
What Angela isn’t saying (4)
Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI
Out of the frying pan (8)
The race to head the Federal Reserve
Summers v Yellen (33)
The trial of Fabrice Tourre
Collective guilt
Abenomics
Zoning out (2)
Buttonwood
Carry on trading (2)
The price of fish
Different scales (4)
Free exchange
Glorious and arduous
Correction: America’s GDP

■Science and technology
The perils of sitting down
Standing orders (43)
Artificial meat
A quarter-million pounder and fries
Influenza
Damned if you don’t
3D printing with paper
Print me the head of Alfredo Garcia (8)

■Books and arts
Christians, Muslims and Jesus
Centuries of dialogue (11)
The Johnson & Johnson dynasty
Pass the painkillers (1)
Spanish culture under Franco
Rebels with a cause (1)
New American fiction
Blood sport
The photographs of Mathew Brady
History on film
“Billy Budd” at Glyndebourne
High notes

■Obituary
Wu Dengming (2)

■Economic and financial indicators
Output, prices and jobs
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages (1)
Markets