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 Artificial intelligence: March of the machines Guns in America: Control, alt, delete Executive pay: Cheques need balances America and Iran: Sanctions busting The Niger Delta Avengers: Danegeld in the Delta On free speech, central banks, Israel, teaching, potholes, cheese: Letters to the editor Executive pay: Neither rigged nor fair Minimum wages: Maximin The Trump campaign: Poor Donald After Orlando: Of docs and Glocks Oakland’s police: Too many chiefs The Fourth Amendment: Amended Catholic hospitals: Gloria in expansion Suing the Church: Bully pulpit Lexington: Cory Booker North American summitry: Three amigos and two spectres Bello: Peace, at last, in Colombia Brazil’s Olympics: Calamity Janeiro Canada: Last rights Australia’s election: Shortening the odds Pakistani cinema: Lights, camera, action men Law enforcement in Indonesia: Time for Tito Addiction in India: Pushing poppies in Punjab Endangered species: No rosewood of such virtue Japanese-American relations: Rina’s legacy Propaganda: Who draws the party line? Grassroots democracy: Unwanted model Banyan: In Beijing’s bad books The nuclear deal with Iran: Teething pains or trouble ahead? Fighting in Fallujah: Down, but not yet out Bahrain’s crackdown: Brutal king, cowardly allies The dogs of Gaza: If you want a friend in this town... Kenya: Heating up Nigeria and its militants: Avengers unite! Spain reruns its election: Out, caste Russia’s Olympic ban: Doping and punishment The EU’s Russia sanctions: Small carrot, medium stick Turkey’s embattled liberals: Radiohead and Ramadan Charlemagne: Commented out Working poverty: When a job is not enough Born out of his time: Andy Murray and tennis grand slams Summer exams: Books versus football Bagehot: Whitehall, Inc. Higher education: Flying high Artificial intelligence: The return of the machinery question Technology: From not working to neural networking The impact on jobs: Automation and anxiety Education and policy: Re-educating Rita Ethics: Frankenstein’s paperclips Conclusion: Answering the machinery question Health care: All about the base Security businesses in Europe: Silver linings YouTube and copyright: Free and easy listening 3D printing: Print my ride Elon Musk’s empire: Clouds appear SoftBank: Short and sweet Telecoms: Oi boy Schumpeter: Sleepy giant India’s economy: Two stumbles forward, one back Buttonwood: The next leap Mexico’s special economic zones: How the bottom half lives IEX, unleashed: Speed bumps in the night Regulating banks: Capital hill The DAO: Theft is property German banks: Turn of the screw Free exchange: A running start Passenger drones: Those incredible flying machines Surveillance: Halting the hate Social media and sport: What the deuce, Watson? Climate research: Monsooner or later Zoology: Flight compass Wagner’s “Ring” cycle: Getting into Valhalla Transgender memoir: Daddy dearest A memoir of Australia: Ancestral voices Cricket in Pakistan: Balls of fury Reading poetry: War of words Sculpture parks in Britain: Training the eye Jo Cox: Star turn Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Foreign direct investment Markets