Aug 13th 2016

Cheating death: The science that can extend your lifespan

The world this week

Leaders

Ageing

Cheating death

Science is getting to grips with ways to slow ageing. Rejoice, as long as the side-effects can be managed

War against crime in the Philippines

A harvest of lead

Rodrigo Duterte is living up to his promise to fight crime by shooting first and asking questions later

Trump’s plan for the economy

Scrimping on sense

The Republican nominee’s ideas on the economy are thoughtless and dangerous

South Africa

Time to govern

There is now a genuine alternative to the ANC

Preventing child-abuse

First, save the children

Punitive laws intended to protect children from sexual assault too often make them less safe

Letters

On Britain, globalisation, Hinkley Point, laws, landmines, Donald Trump, Brexit

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Longevity

Adding ages

The fight to cheat death is hotting up

United States

Hillary Clinton

Inevitable once more

Purchasing power

More bang for your buck

Merit scholarships

TOPSy-turvy

Dietary inequality

Bitter fruits

America’s foreign bases

Go home, Yankee

Lexington

Dollars in the wind

The Americas

Argentina’s economy

It’s cold outside

Rio’s Olympics

More with less

Canada’s Senate and Supreme Court

Look to the rainbow

Asia

Philippine politics

From plan to execution

Thai politics

How not to solve a crisis

Gay rights in Indonesia

Under pressure

Kashmir

Reviving the cause

Women’s education in Afghanistan

Liberation through segregation

China

The judicial system

Suppress and support

Youthful nationalists

The East is pink

Middle East & Africa

New rivalries on a contested continent

Asia’s scramble for Africa

Ethiopia’s football follies

Full time?

Zambia’s elections

A test case for democracy

Iraq’s Yazidis

Freedom on hold

Libya and the West

Piling in

Europe

Migration within the EU

Europe’s scapegoat

Tensions in Crimea

The cruellest month

The time in Spain

Out of sync with the sun...

Renewable energy

It’s not easy being green

Charlemagne

Small but not too beautiful

Britain

The Labour Party

The metamorphosis

Schools

Grammatical error

Football geography

A country of two halves

The “term funding scheme”

When cuts are not enough

Fatter people

Counting calories

Thinner pets

Subwoofers

Bagehot

This sceptic isle

International

Paedophilia

Shedding light on the dark field

Business

The other side of Warren Buffett

Don’t Buff it up

Airlines and technology

All systems stop

Walmart buys Jet.com

Boxed-in unicorn

PSA Group

Peugeot rallies

Live-streaming

Amateur’s hour

The Berlusconis’ shrinking empire

Things fall apart

The tourism industry

Nothing to see here

Schumpeter

Revenge of the nerds

Finance & economics

Europe’s disappearing cash

Emptying the tills

Buttonwood

Back in fashion

Pensions

No love, actuary

The leisure economy

Surfing to success

Recruitment and inequality

Pandora’s box

Financial crime

The final bill

Free exchange

The problematic proposal

Schools brief

Fiscal multipliers

Where does the buck stop?

Science & technology

Hybrid cars

At last, the 48 show

Anthropology

No hard feelings

Graphene-based electronics

Bugs in the system

Evolution

Bee kind to viruses

Culture

American memoirs

Promises, promises

America in the 1970s

That’s rich

New fiction

Irish charm

World music

Humanity’s heartbeat

Johnson

Would that it were so simple

Economic & financial indicators

Interactive indicators

Output, prices and jobs

Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates

The Economist commodity-price index

Holiday blues

Markets

Obituary

From child to man