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Articles in this issue: Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon Health care: Closing in on cancer Hurricane Irma: Caribbean confetti America and the Middle East: Shia crescent rising The Federal Reserve: Dangerously vacant Cyber-security: Learning the lessons of Equihack On AI and sexuality, health care, flooding, Mikhail Gorbachev, externalities, public holidays, Germany: Letters to the editor Iran and the world: Not quite a dead cert Iran in Syria: Endgame angst The future of Kurdistan: Rare agreement Detroit: The end of blight is in sight Hosting Amazon: One-click shopping Disaster fraud: After the deluge Hurricane Irma: Flood and flight Campus rape: Undue process Trump and Congress: Just one of those things Measuring the presidency: Charting the travel ban Lexington: Finger-wagging good Hurricane Irma (1): Paradise lost Hurricane Irma (2): Too little, but not too late Shaken Mexico: Mexico’s quake of the century Bello: A long haul in Venezuela India’s economy: Just the job Myanmar’s Rakhine state: A hiding to nothing Singaporean politics: No contest Elections in New Zealand: Jacindamania Entertaining at home in Japan: Keeping up appearances Banyan: The people’s strongman Foreign affairs: God’s gift Politics in Macau: High winds and high rollers Egypt’s economy: Changing track Iraq’s wetlands: Drying up again Qatar’s opposition: No place to go Art in Congo: Painting their land The Norwegian right’s re-election: How to tame your dragon Germany’s refugees: Hearts and minds Campaigning in Germany: Knock, knock Serbian guest workers: Northward ho! Cycling in the city: A driverless Paris? Charlemagne: Mr Juncker’s Indian summer Immigration: Return journey Diasporas: Polishing up Exit from Brexit: The Blair ditch project Trinity Mirror and the Express: Opposites attract Mumsnet: Proliferating profanities Public-sector pay: A problem postponed Renewable energy: Hull of a wind behind it Agriculture and energy: Electric fields Bagehot: The hollow centre The Gates report: Generation games A new era of cancer treatment: Targeting tumours Unruly origins: Beginnings, and how to spot them Molecular medicine: Progression, and how to stop it Loosening inhibitions: Immunity, and how to encourage it Brain scan: Meeting the unmet burden Building on success: The future, and how to get there Europe’s chief trustbuster: Big Tech’s nemesis Apple v Samsung: Phone tag Liquefied natural gas: Think smaller Electric cars in China: Zooming ahead Logistics: Freight gain The business of sperm banks: Seed capital Politicians-turned-businessmen: The point of pantouflage Schumpeter: The weakest link The Federal Reserve: Switching to autopilot Buttonwood: Investor Caution Obligatory Goldman Sachs: Ripples at the top The Equifax data breach: Once more… Identity-theft monitoring: Self defence Cross-border banking: Travel sickness American banknotes: No change Free exchange: Remote control Electric motors: Let’s twist again Astronomy: Bracing for the Belt Molecular biology: Suicide watch Wireless data transmission: Cheap and cheerful Conservation: Bullish on bears The power of tech firms: Monopoly is not a game Russia: Insider out The Bank of England: A bank of many trades New American fiction: Changed courses Pierre Bergé: Man at the wheel America and Vietnam: Buried ordnance Nancy Dupree: The land of love Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Youth unemployment Markets Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)