■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
KAL's cartoon

■Leaders
America's budget deficit
Speak softly and carry a big chainsaw
The euro-zone crisis
Saving the euro
Dealing with spam
Confidence game
British immigration
Scrap the cap
Microfinance
Leave well alone
The future of Japan
The Japan syndrome

■Letters
On deforestation, Colombia, high-speed rail, higher education, Ireland, Laayoune, the Republicans

■Briefing
America's deficit
Confronting the monster

■United States
America in numbers
One nation, divisible
Congress reconvenes
An end to earmarks
Municipal troubles
All economics is local
New York's recovery
Happy apple
Illegal immigration
Targeting the boss
Islam in Tennessee
An uncivil action
Lexington
Bluff and counter-bluff

■The Americas
Rebuilding Haiti
Politics in the time of cholera
Venezuela's economy
Towards state socialism
Mexico's film industry
¡Acción!
Illegal mining in South America
Ungreen gold

■Asia
China's rising prices
Hunting down the hoarders
China's price inflation, continued
Caterpillar fungus, the new gold
Bangladesh
Politics of hate
A coronation in Sri Lanka
Beating the drum
Hong Kong's paternalism
Raspberries all round
North Korean defectors
No paradise, but better than hell
Corruption in Indonesia
The adventures of SuperGayus
Banyan
Freedom from fear

■Middle East & Africa
Israel, the United States and Palestine
Fix those borders first
Libya
Open yet closed
Syria's evangelical Christians
Don't try too hard
Iraq's new leaders
A government begins to emerge
Rhinos in South Africa
A horny headache
Guinea's presidential poll
Please stay calm
Boxing in Nigeria
A rumble in the Sahel

■Europe
France's new government
Old wine in new bottles
François Fillon
The nobody who became somebody
Silvio Berlusconi under pressure
An Italian job
Greece's budgetary woes
A long odyssey
Portugal's financial worries
Atlantic trouble
Germany, central Europe and Russia
Frau fix-it
Hungarian politics
Constituting a problem
Charlemagne
Gang that can't shoot straight

■Britain
Cutting immigration
Shutting the door
The inflation overshoot
Still choppy
Distance learning
It all adds up
The royal engagement
Just the job
The secret services and torture
The price of secrecy
Information and public services
Weighing sunlight
Musical chairs at big banks
One man's giant leap
Bagehot
Beveridge's children

■International
The changing landscape of online fraud
Long life spam
Spamming dissected
A great deal out there
Road safety and vigilantism
Soft pedal

■A special report on Japan
Into the unknown
Generation change
On the down escalator
Insiders and outsiders
Corporate euthanasia
Recharging the batteries
Social insecurity
Friends and neighbours
The dearth of births
Bring on the cultural revolution
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Television
China's got viewers
Teaching Chinese
Mandarin's Great Leap Forward
Energy companies
Power struggle
Japanese manufacturers
Leaving home
Innovation in IT
The liquefaction of hardware
Yogurt
Creamy
Programmable processors
Kneading chips
Schumpeter
The Brazilian model

■Briefing
Ireland's economy
Threadbare

■Finance and Economics
European bond markets
Last among equals
The G20 aftermath
The Delhi consensus
Microfinance under scrutiny
Overcharging
Paul Calello
A good banker
Buttonwood
Taking von Mises to pieces
Banco PanAmericano
Nothing to see here
Cricket and labour markets
Opening stand
Economics focus
Data birth

■Science & Technology
Animation and robotics
Crossing the uncanny valley
Pollution in the Himalayas
Time to call the sweep?
Antimatter
Gotcha!
Pesticides
Smoking them out

■Books & Arts
Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court
The scorpions' stratagems
Paris under the Nazis
Flying the flag
Books in prison
Page turner
Haunted Britain
Spooky
Pirate radio in Britain
Glory days
Art of the Americas
Expansion

■Obituary
Liang Congjie

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP forecasts
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Tuberculosis