■The world this week
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Al-Qaeda returns
The new face of terror (113)
Brazil’s future
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E-cigarettes
Sending the wrong smoke-signal (16)
Germany’s election
Angela’s dilemma (11)
Talking to Tehran
Curb your enthusiasm (17)
David Cameron
Remember what you once were (2)

■Letters
Letters
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■Briefing
The state of al-Qaeda
The unquenchable fire (2)

■United States
The budget battle
Nightmares and bedtime stories (94)
The mayoral race in Boston
Party time
Food stamps
Pincer movement (4)
Water and agriculture in Kansas
Sip it slowly (1)
Politics and energy policy
Appalachian fall
Lexington
Hey! Hey! LBJ! (3)

■The Americas
Venezuela’s economy
Maduro’s balancing act (1)
Oil in Ecuador
It’s hard to be green
Mexican wine
The Napa of Baja (1)

■Asia
Politics in Malaysia
Bumi, not booming (9)
Violence in Pakistan
Cold shoulder for Sharif (7)
India’s informal economy
Hidden value (1)
Sri Lanka’s Tamils
Harder lines (10)
Clarification: Xayaburi dam

■China
Scientific research
Looks good on paper (5)
The Bo Xilai trial
End of the road? (1)
Power and money
Wealthy politicians (4)
Banyan
One model, two interpretations (3)

■Middle East and Africa
Kenya
A different country (2)
Iranian nuclear talks
Jaw-jaw for now
Syria’s war
Their own men (1)
Egypt’s opposition
Blues Brothers
Qatar
No more own goals (3)

■Europe
Germany’s election
A new match for black (4)
Italian politics
Still a puppet master (1)
France’s economy
Budgetary blues (12)
Serbian politics
Nasty fight ahead
Russia in the world
Preening (1)
Dutch politics
Not so Calvinist any more (2)
Charlemagne
Waiting for Angela (5)

■Britain
Labour’s energy policy
Tilting at windmills (3)
Tourism and the economy
Easy come, easy go (1)
The census
Don’t count it out
Britain and India
The odd couple
British politics
Machiavelli’s memorandum
Bagehot
The dreams of Red Ed (8)
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■International
Street protests
The weapon of choice
Noble titles
Honours and offers
Selling citizenship
Papers please

■Special report: Brazil
Grounded(11)
Politics
A rough ride for Rousseff(14)
The economy
The price is wrong(5)
Agriculture v industry
Leave well alone
Infrastructure
The road to hell
Stadiums
Money no object
Pensions and education
Land of the setting sun
Consumer goods
Looks good
Reform
Reality dawns

■Business
Generations in the workplace
Winning the generation game
E-cigarettes
Kodak moment (9)
The cannabis business
Here come the suits, man (1)
BlackBerry
Still in a jam
Semiconductor equipment
Applied economics (1)
China’s film business
Leading man
Auction houses in China
Christie’s v the people’s army
Schumpeter
The “Breaking Bad” school (5)

■Finance and economics
Financial consulting
Advice squad (1)
Buttonwood
The big issues (1)
Bank of America’s trial
A case of note (3)
Canada’s housing market
Moody Mark, sunny Stephen (2)
Mobile banking in Myanmar
Leapfrog spotting
Helium
Inflation warning (15)
Current-account imbalances
Less skewed (5)
Swedish banks
Tips from an ageing model
Free exchange
The missing millions (1)

■Schools brief
Stimulus v austerity
Sovereign doubts (3)

■Science and technology
China in space
How long a reach? (16)
A carbonic computer
Cylinder head (1)
Marine ecology
Sea wolves
A dispatch from the front
Genetic oncology
Cancer cartography

■Books and arts
Migration
The mobile masses (2)
Nuclear weapons
Start worrying
London’s golden age
Playing dirty
A history of 1945
Darkness before dawn
The life of J.D. Salinger
The stranger
New British fiction
Perfect change

■Obituary
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
Marcel Reich-Ranicki (8)

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