There was lots of what's customarily thought of as "news" for this edition, led of course by the death of Muammar Gaddafi after four decades of rule in Libya. There was the first election of the Arab spring, in Tunisia, and the re-election of Christina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina.
But we chose this week to give prominence to broader stories - those about health and demography that ultimately will probably have a far greater impact on most people's lives.
So we speak to Child Number 6 Billion, Adnan Nevic from Bosnia, now aged 12, about his thoughts on the impending arrival of Child Number 7 Billion. And the Guardian's health editor, Sarah Boseley, looks at the implications of a vaccine for malaria that's been shown to be significantly effective.
We go to our sister paper Le Monde for a less positive story, about the spread of cholera across western and central Africa, in a region where the memory of the awful disease had almost faded away.
On the finance pages we also take a fresh look at The Netherlands - not tulips and bicycles, but tax avoidance on a massive scale.
There's also a fascinating story from the Washington Post about our alien identity - only about one in 10 cells in our bodies is human.
I hope that you enjoy the edition - feel free to write a letter to the editor to share your views.
Quote of the week: "We accept the democratic result and we'll be in opposition. The diversity and openness of civil secular society in Tunisia is strong and isn't going to change" - Kais Nigrou, of the Modernist Democratic Pole, a centre-left coalition that ran on a secular, feminist platform in last weekend's election
Fact of the week: The UN calculates the world will have its seventh-billion person by 31 October. The sixth-billionth child was born in 1999, the fifth-billionth in 1987, fourth in 1975 and third in 1960.
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