■The world this week
KAL's cartoon
Politics this week
Business this week

■Leaders
Striking Syria
Fight this war, not the last one (170)
Global finance
Where’s the next Lehman? (7)
A Chinese power struggle
Hunting tigers (2)
The economics of companies
The man who showed why firms exist (2)
3D printing
From dental braces to astronauts’ seats (2)

■Letters
Letters
On Syria, Janet Yellen, Chernobyl, crime, cities, education, cyborgs (2)

■Briefing
Clever cities
The multiplexed metropolis
Urban dreamscapes
Starting from scratch

■United States
America and Syria
To bomb, or not to bomb? (13)
Labour unions
Fast-food condemnation (4)
Interstate pollution
Smother my neighbour
What state lawmakers earn
Some work for nothing
Welfare and work
Taxing hard-up Americans at 95% (8)
Lexington
Farming as rocket science (26)
Correction: Maine

■The Americas
Governing Mexico
The suits v the street (1)
Telecoms in Canada
Patriotic but pricey (6)
NSA spying in Latin America
Snoops and snubs (2)

■Asia
Indonesia’s 2014 elections
Let the games begin
Damming the Mekong
Fish-friendly?
Central Asia and its Russian dependence
Remittance man (1)
Counter-terrorism in India
Do Lali (1)
Banyan
This land is whose land?

■China
Political manoeuvring
The plot thickens
Another princeling in court
Listening to the masses
The burden on students
Must not try harder

■Middle East and Africa
Kenya and the international court
It’s show time (1)
Liberia
Skin-deep success
Ghana’s supreme court
Doing it properly
The Palestinians
Lonely Hamas
The state of Egypt
Old ways return (1)
Iran’s new government
A very different flavour

■Europe
Germany’s election
Descent into banality
France and Syria
The American president’s trailer? (1)
Sweden and America
A president’s first-ever visit (1)
Moscow’s mayoral elections
Inspired by “The Wire” (1)
Charlemagne
When the wind blows (1)

■Britain
The establishment and Syria
Britannia waives
Stagecoach in America
Tartan tyres
Reviving languages
Generation monoglot (2)
Classical education
Latin, innit
The price of leisure
Pay to park
David Frost remembered
The television man
Mining in Yorkshire
Wuthering Depths
Digital family trees
This little isle
Football transfers
Reassuringly expensive
Bagehot
Grounded for now (3)
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■International
Women in sport
Game, sex and match (2)
Internet security
Kill or cure

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
The race is not to the swift
If tooth be told
Bang but no boom
The referee’s a robot(1)
First, wash your hands
The sound of silence
Difference engine
The rebirth of the diesel engine(1)
3D printing
3D printing scales up
How 3D printers work
High-tech fabrics
Material benefits
Biofuels
What happened to biofuels?
Working with robots
Our friends electric
Brain scan
Microsoft’s other mogul

■Business
Casinos in Asia
The rise of the low-rollers
Casinos in Asia (2)
Place your bets
Reshaping telecoms
The big mobile-phone reset (2)
Schumpeter
Montessori management (1)

■Finance and economics
Raghuram Rajan joins the RBI
Into the pressure cooker (2)
The capital-freeze index
Stop signs (7)
Tobacco-settlement bonds
Unlucky strike
Buttonwood
Squaring the circle (1)
Offshore tax evasion
Swiss finished? (1)
Economic data
Peeking early
Free exchange
One of the giants (5)

■Schools brief
The origins of the financial crisis
Crash course (2)
Explaining the schools briefs (1)

■Science and technology
Solar powered drones
On a bright new wing
Brain training for older people
Put away the knitting (1)
Neglected diseases
Nodding acquaintance
Radiation and birds
Not so blindingly obvious

■Books and arts
China at the liberation
The road to serfdom
Catholicism in the developing world
Hardly a unifying church
Laurence Olivier
A man for all seasons
New fiction
Kiss of death
Britain in the 1990s
Nice change
Woodrow Wilson
Negotiating world peace

■Obituary
Seamus Heaney (4)

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