■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week (1)
KAL's cartoon (3)

■Leaders
Syria
Hit him hard (458)
Russia and the West
Getting shirty with Vladimir (26)
Federal Reserve
Choosing the chairman (8)
Banks in China
Too big to hail (10)
Australia’s election
Lucky no more (55)

■Letters
Letters
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■Briefing
Attacking Syria
Global cop, like it or not (40)
The military options
The Tomahawks fly (6)
The history of chemical weapons
The shadow of Ypres (3)

■United States
State politics
Guns, gays, drugs and taxes in Colorado (3)
Utah’s economy
Busy bees (7)
Higher education
Universities challenged (8)
Making law school cheaper
For many, two years is plenty (4)
Maine’s abrasive governor
Front page LePage
New Orleans
Lawyers v drillers (2)
Ornithology
Tern limits
Lexington
The empathiser-in-chief (6)

■The Americas
Colombia’s peace talks
To the edge and back again (1)
Health care in Brazil
Flying in doctors (2)
Brazil’s foreign policy
Freelance diplomacy (3)

■Asia
Australia’s general election
Why Parramatta matters (8)
The Pacific islands
Sea change
The Maldives goes to the polls
Yellow fever (3)
Electricity in Vietnam
A heavy load
Banyan
Bad memories

■China
Bo Xilai’s trial
Going down fighting (6)
Microblogs
Big Vs and bottom lines (3)

■Middle East and Africa
The Central African Republic
Another failed state beckons
The United Nations and Congo
Raising the stakes (3)
Living standards in South Africa
The dole toll
Arab conspiracy theories
Strange bedfellows (6)

■Europe
Russia and the West
Cold climate (24)
Racism in Italy
Educating Cecile (25)
Portugal’s economic recovery
Between bail-outs
Albania’s new government
Getting it together
Norway’s election
A resurgent right (1)
Germany’s televised debates
Dog eats dog
French holidays
The hardworking Mr Hollande
Charlemagne
Back to school (2)
Correction: Merkel

■Britain
Housebuilding
Road blocks (1)
Britain and Germany
Merkel uber alles (17)
High-speed rail
Playing sardines (7)
Cemeteries
Tombstone blues
Foreign investment
Catching the Scots (1)
Mark Carney
I mean what I say (1)
Underwear
Bare necessities (2)
Bagehot
The parable of the Clyde (3)
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■International
Politics and humour
The satirical verses (2)
Skewering dictators
Laugh them out of power
Honorary consuls
A booming trade

■Business
Entrepreneurs in Japan
Time to get started (4)
Takafumi Horie’s comeback
Up, up and away
Drug firms and cancer
Lucrative lifesavers (3)
Microsoft and the PC industry
Defenestrated (3)
European carmakers
A heated row over coolants (2)
Iran’s oil industry
Dreaming of a new golden age
Food companies and innovation
Cultural revolution (4)
Schumpeter
The entrepreneurial state (2)

■Finance and economics
China’s big banks
Giant reality-check (1)
The Federal Reserve
Dove v dove (6)
Women central bankers
The unsteady march of diversity
Crashing exchanges
Code blue (3)
Global house prices
Mixed messages
Free exchange
Horns of a trilemma

■Science and technology
Growing model brains
An embryonic idea (1)
The origin of MERS
Watching the detectives
The lamentable lack of female professors
Promotion and self-promotion (18)
Kopi Luwak
Brown-gold blend (2)

■Books and arts
The psychology of scarcity
Days late, dollars short (2)
Islamic fundamentalism
Stories of zealotry (9)
George Herbert
Consciously fruitful
New American fiction
Come what may
Family history and the Holocaust
The pursuit of evil
Dave Chappelle’s comeback
Funny man (2)

■Obituary
Elmore Leonard (4)

■Economic and financial indicators
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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
International tourist arrivals
The Economist commodity-price index
Markets