LI KEQIANG visits India and Pakistan, American psychiatrists gather in San Francisco, Sweden hosts the final of the Eurovision Song Contest and Microsoft unveils its latest console
A new look for mobile
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Debate: Big banks
Banking is meant to be a service that enables all others, yet it has become the bane of some economies. Whether or not to break up the big banks is perhaps the most salient question that remains after the financial crisis. Join our debate
PAKISTAN and Bulgaria hold elections, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaches an historic high and Richard Branson dresses up as a flight attendant
The matter with Kansas
Thanks to Kansas’s Second Amendment Protection Act, it is now a crime for a federal officer to enforce federal gun-control laws there. This move, known as nullification, has not gone down well with America’s attorney-general, Eric Holder
New fault lines and old
Northern Ireland is beginning to see American-style culture wars, in which some Protestants and Catholics bury their theological differences in a common conservative cause: the fight against the legalisation of same-sex marriage
Lust, jealousy, revenge
Sir Nicholas Hytner’s provocative production of “Othello” at the National Theatre in London is less about race than about soldiers’ psyches.
MALAYSIA holds a general election, America's Senate votes on an internet sales tax, the World Trade Organisation considers its next leader and Russia brings back the name Stalingrad for the day
Virtual fields
Farming has always been rooted in careful analysis of data—from deducing the best conditions to achieve bumper yields to keeping track of the bounty reaped from arable land. A new crop of apps and websites attempts to make this much easier
Debate: Self-driving cars
Will self-driving cars be the next improbable-sounding technology to become widely used? Or will they be like the nuclearpowered vehicle that Ford once worked on—technically feasible but hopelessly impractical? Join our debate
THE NETHERLANDS gets a new king, a new €5 banknote enters circulation, Barack Obama addresses White House correspondents and Apple's iTunes store celebrates its tenth birthday
Intelligent Life on Android
Our culture and lifestyle magazine is now available on Android tablet for the first time, as well as on the iPad and iPhone. The new issue features Ricken Patel, the founder of Avaaz. Download it free from Google Play or the App Store
The Deutsche question-mark
Brendan Simms, the author of a new book on the history of Europe, talks to us about the way German power is central to the continent’s identity. He suggests that this does not have to be a troubling notion, even if it has been in the past
Louxor-on-Seine
The Louxor, an art-deco cinema near the Barbès–Rochechouart metro station in Paris, has recently been restored to its former glory.
LONDON hosts a marathon, the trial of Alexei Navalny begins, Paraguay holds elections and an elephant bird egg goes to auction
A mission to Mars
To find out what life would be like on a Mars mission, six volunteers, including our correspondent, have set up camp on the volcanic slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. They will have to cope with communication lags, limited power and new types of food
Stuck in the middle with you
Korea has played an inimitable and unenviable role in China’s history. For more than 2,000 years, Chinese rulers have seen Korea as a tributary to be protected, a prize to be coveted or as a dangerous land bridge that might bring in “outer barbarians”
Debate: Affirmative action
In places like Malaysia, South Africa and America, the politics of race-based affirmative action are shifting.
WHEN Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher drew his first cartoon for The Economist, in March 1978, he was making ends meet by sketching tourists in London's Trafalgar Square. 35 years later, KAL has produced more than 4,000 illustrations for the paper, and drawn some of its most memorable covers. Fans eagerly await his weekly cartoon, which has appeared in the opening pages of each new issue since 2001.
On Thursday April 18th KAL will be answering readers' questions via webcam, using the Hangouts feature of Google+. If you would like to participate, please fill out this form (you will need a webcam, and a Google+ account, to take part).
MARGARET THATCHER'S funeral is held in London, French politicians face a deadline to declare their assets, Venezuelans go to the polls and the Rijksmuseum reopens in Amsterdam
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