From the print edition

Money talks

Each week our correspondents gather to discuss business, finance and economics. Their thoughts are then turned into a podcast, which can be listened to at Economist.com or downloaded via iTunes. This week UBS, the euro and the gold price are on the menu

And the silver goes to...

Football, in the English sense of the word, is by some distance the world’s most popular game—both in terms of participants and viewers. But which sport comes second? Our Game theory blog proposes a novel way to settle a long-running argument between fans

Unfreezing Frobisher

In the 16th century English navigators, cut off from the riches of the Indies by Spain and Portugal, sought to reach Asia by sailing close to the North Pole. They failed because so much of the Arctic Ocean was frozen. No longer: global warming is opening summer sea lanes through the ice

Americas: The governor’s mea culpa

Enrique Peña Nieto, the front-runner in Mexico’s presidential race, admits his murder statistics were wrong

Finance: Bad timing

The agony of journalists tasked with explaining short-term moves in the markets

Technology: A classic invention

Sometimes innovation comes from the most unlikely places, most recently Oxford University’s classics department

Middle East: What the papers say

Reactions in the Arab press to the Palestinian bid for statehood

United States: Rick Perry’s problems

The candidate’s apparent implosion is not what it seems

Europe: Bundestag on the brink

Can Angela Merkel rally her coalition’s backing for a crucial parliamentary vote on the euro zone’s bail-out fund?

Asia: Ambassador non grata (not yet published)

Sri Lanka puts heroes of its civil war in high diplomatic posts. One general’s record makes him unwelcome in Switzerland

Africa: A tightening noose

Ethiopia is cracking down ever harder on journalists who criticise the regime

Business education: Promising the world

Pankaj Ghemawat, author of “World 3.0”, says business schools which claim to teach globalisation ought to be prosecuted for false advertising

Video: A most particular physicist (not yet published)

Rolf-Dieter Heuer, director-general at CERN, talks about his tunnel

Britain: In praise of waste

A guest post from a hospital administrator argues that being a bit wasteful helps the National Health Service remain efficient