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

■Leaders
America, Russia and Syria
The weakened West (291)
In praise of art forgery
The emperor’s new pictures (2)
Big companies
A world turned upside down (8)
Inequality
Growing apart (12)
Britain’s new interventionism
Hands off (4)

■Letters
Letters (1)

■Briefing
The world’s biggest firms
Back on top (4)

■United States
America, Russia and Syria
Style and substance (12)
The budget
Once more to the brink (3)
Marijuana legalisation
Tokers’ delight (3)
Gun massacres
Mass shootings are up; gun murders down (9)
Justice in New Orleans
Of trolls and mistrials (2)
Public health
The risk of rabid raccoons
Lexington
The American Dream, RIP? (13)

■The Americas
Brazil and the United States
More in sorrow than anger (13)
Mining in the Dominican Republic
Sickness and wealth (1)
The demise of Acapulco
Diving off a cliff (2)
Violence against women in Latin America
Everyday aggression (2)

■Asia
Politics in Taiwan
Daggers drawn (2)
Communal violence in India
An old curse returns
North Korean posturing
Picking up steam (1)
Justice and vengeance in Bangladesh
Swing votes (1)
Electricity in Japan
Power struggle (4)
Banyan
Flaws in the diamond (6)

■China
The politics of dam-building
Opening the floodgates (7)
Learning to speak proper
Spread the word (11)

■Middle East and Africa
Syria’s war
An unlikely band of brothers (4)
Iranian diplomacy
His biggest smile (5)
Algeria’s leaders
The dead live longer
China and Africa
Little to fear but fear itself (1)
Rwandan elections
Safe and sorry

■Europe
German election
Final push (3)
Polish protests
Tusk’s troubles (5)
Sex-selective abortion
Gendercide in the Caucasus (2)
France
Weird about Wednesday (1)
Greece
On the edge (10)
Bulgaria
Birth of a civil society (12)
Charlemagne
They are coming (15)

■Britain
Business policy
The new interventionism
The Premier League
Sticks and stones
Video games
Pixel pressures (1)
Cannabis
Spliffs and butts (3)
Polling and politics
The swing set
What Mike Lynch did next
After Autonomy
London Fashion Week
Rags to riches
Rhodes and Oxford
Giving it up for Cecil
Bagehot
The prophetic liberal (1)
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■International
Poverty
Growth or safety net?
Charitable foundations
A spoonful of sugar

■Business
Pharmaceuticals
Ranbaxy’s chronic maladies
Commercial aircraft
Bombardier lights a fuse (16)
E-commerce
Tencent’s worth
Electric vehicles in Europe
Plugging away (1)
Electric bicycles
Two (motorised) wheels better (1)
Selling art online
Enter Amazon (1)
Training Saudi businesswomen
Managing under the abaya
Gambling
Losing streak
Twitter
Tweeting the IPO launch
Supermarkets in Africa
The grocers’ great trek
Schumpeter
The future of the Firm (3)

■Finance and economics
Monetary policy in America
Taper tiger (12)
The Federal Reserve
When Larry sparked rally
The capital-freeze index, again
This spreadsheet is different (1)
The economics of equity research
Analyse this
Latvian lessons
Extreme economics (4)
Buttonwood
Smoke and mirrors (1)
The foreign-exchange market
Special FX
Free exchange
The next frontier (4)

■Schools brief
Monetary policy after the crash
Controlling interest

■Science and technology
Unbreakable cryptography
The devil and the details (1)
How animals perceive time
Slo-mo mojo
Satellite propulsion
It’s not rocket science (1)
Subterranean biology
Life in the labyrinth

■Books and arts
The birth of Bangladesh
Blood meridian (6)
Strategic bombing, 1939-45
A costly, brutal failure (15)
New American fiction
Place and memory
The father of history
Translating Herodotus
The lure of pearls
Iridescence (1)

■Obituary
Robert Capon

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