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 superstar company: A giant problem British politics: Britain’s one-party state Syria’s ceasefire: A risky bargain Extinctions to order: Gene-ocide The World Bank: Lucky Jim On the burkini, Citadel, Colombia, game theory, demography, Milton Friedman, Star Trek: Letters to the editor The Labour Party: Salvaging Jerusalem Trump and the Alt-Right: Pepe and the stormtroopers The campaigns: Heard on the trail Presidential health: Hillary-care Income and poverty: Great again? Playing at policing: Power of the county Election brief: The Supreme Court: About to tilt Lexington: Who’s deplorable? Lexington: Survey A Brazilian politician’s fate: An end to power-broking Canada and peacekeeping: Helmets back on Argentina’s crime capital: A lethal location Bello: From comrade to caudillo The Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte: Sceptred bile North Korea’s nuclear programme: Bangs and bucks Mahathir Mohamad: Can a leopard change its spots? Water in India: A kink in the hose Banyan: Knife-edge lives Tibet: The plateau, unpacified African cities: Left behind Industry in Africa: In or out? Health care in Rwanda: An African trailblazer Egypt’s Nubians: Let them go home Divorce in Iraq: Breaking up in Baghdad Jihadism in French prisons: Caged fervour Russia’s elections: Duma-day machine Post-communist chic: You must remember this Serbia’s prime minister: The changeling Germans against trade: Fortress mentality Charlemagne: State of disunion Economic geography: How the other three-quarters live Schools and social mobility: A new syllabus Slimming the House of Commons: Boundary dispute National museums: Existential rethink Brexit and trade: Not so simple Food and the law: Full English Brexit Drug overdoses: Shooting up Drug overdoses: Survey Al-Qaeda: The other jihadist state Companies: The rise of the superstars A history lesson: What goes around Driving forces: Why giants thrive Misconceptions: The new Methuselahs Key attributes: The alphabet of success Joining the ranks: Do you blitzscale? Downsides: The dark arts Future policy: A delicate balance A tech icon’s future: Twitter in retweet Online media: Three-hit wonder Europe’s digital single market: Incumbents rule Retailing: Long journey Multinationals in Venezuela: Stay or go The drug industry: Growing pains Autonomous cars: Pitt stop BASF: Chemical reaction Schumpeter: Risky business Chinese investment: A sponge wrung dry Buttonwood: Trust busting Wages in Japan: Behind a pay wall American property: The REIT stuff Global inequality: Shooting an elephant Hank Greenberg: Final claims Misbehaving bankers (1): Accounts receivable Misbehaving bankers (2): Accounts payable Free exchange: Stealth socialism The Zika virus: A mystery no more Precision agriculture: TV dinners Similarities in language: You say potato... Medical treatment: Feed a virus, starve a bacterium Aviation safety: Flight response Medieval manuscripts: Patricians of parchment Russia today: Cluster bomb Practical ethics: How to live well Mankind tomorrow: Future shock Ebola: Best practice New film: Man of the moment New film: Correction: Water, water, everywhere Obituary: Phyllis Schlafly: “Ms” for “misery” Interactive indicators Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index World GDP Markets