Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT) Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon The global economy: The low-rate world European defence: Potemkin Euro-armies America’s presidential election: Indecision time Religion and state in Malaysia: Adulterers beware Internet governance: The road to surfdom? On Uber, Melungeons, Davos, post-truth politics: Letters to the editor The fall in interest rates: Low pressure Pensions: Fade to grey The campaign: President Trump? Bombs in New York: Sangfroid city The campaigns: Heard on the trail Cyber-spying: Bear on bear Safe passage: Chicago schools Campus sexual assault: Re-education Election brief: Fiscal policy: Money’s the conversation Lexington: Millennial falcon Paraguay: Polka lessons Declassifying documents: Sunlight diplomacy Bello: Of growth and globalisation India’s armed forces: Guns and ghee Driving in Vietnam: Four wheels good, two wheels better The Japanese addiction to tuna: Breeding bluefin A trans-Pacific obsession: Bottling hipness Religious freedom in Malaysia: Taking the rap Banyan: A ham-fisted hegemon Nuclear power: A glowing future Social mores: Shacking up Syria’s widening war: The ceasefire unravels Saudi Arabia: The real game of thrones Free speech in Palestine: Gagged in Gaza Uganda’s Jobless Brotherhood: Snouts in the trough Johannesburg’s new mayor: Capitalist crusader Nigeria’s war against indiscipline: Behave or be whipped European defence: The fog of politics Russian politics: The hollow election Criminal justice: Think before you clink Drug wars: Hash and burn Architecture in Sweden: Nobel, unprized The politics of haute coiffure: Scissor and tongs Charlemagne: The parable of Ticino Prisons: Jails break Chinese investment in Britain: Hinkley hangover? Housing in British cities: Little Londons UK Independence Party: What now? Higher education: Universities Inc. Professional services and Brexit: A lob and a smash Live-streaming funerals: Online send-off Bagehot: Not drowning but waving The Montreal protocol: To coldly go Tata Group: Mistry’s elephant Autonomous vehicles: Who’s self-driving your car? Autonomous car insurance: Look, no claims! A Chinese steel merger: Welding bells Stock splits: Split ends Berlin’s tech scene: The freaks are coming Schumpeter: Against happiness Norway’s global fund: How to not spend it Buttonwood: Take cover Asian markets: Chinese sneezes Wall Street: Waking up Deutsche Bank: Won’t pay! Can’t pay? Free exchange: The emperor’s new paunch Why bad science persists: Incentive malus Wireless communication: In a whole new light Computerising archaeology: Burnt offering Vaccine manufacture: Rehydration therapy Resistance to antibiotics: The other global drugs problem Data security: That’s the way to do it American art: Rediscovery Contemporary art: Join the queue Shirley Jackson: Ghost stories The Pentagon: The space between Johnson: Hidden in plain sight Obituary: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor: Sizzling Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index On and offline Markets Interactive indicators