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

Leaders
After the Virginia Tech massacre
America's tragedy
Turkey's presidency
Erdogan's presidential gamble Requires subscription
Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank
Damage control Requires subscription
British inflation
Out of its cage Requires subscription
Financial markets
Twenty-six days clear Requires subscription

Letters
On biofuels, missile defences, immigration, Colombia, plastic bags, aliens

Special Report
Evolution and religion
In the beginning

United States
The Virginia Tech massacre
In the university of death
Gun laws in Texas
Standing their ground
The Josｨｦ Padilla trial
A witness in shades
The coastguard
In Deepwater
The Supreme Court
Conservatives resurgent
New York's transport
Tunnel vision
Lexington
Sidelined by reality

The Americas
Ecuador's Rafael Correa
Tightening his grip
Canada
A winter of Liberal discontent
Colombia
The plot thickens, again
Dengue fever
A deadly scourge

Asia
Corruption in China
Not the best way to clean up
AIDS in China
Double jeopardy
Japan's economy
Over to you, big spender
Bangladesh
No going back
North Korea
Time to party
Politics in Thailand
Battles ahead
Indonesia
School of hard knocks
Tigers
Market failure

Middle East & Africa
Nigeria
How to steal yet another election
Sudan
Too few, too late?
Israel's Arabs
A lawmaker vanishes
South Africa
World Cup worries
Iraq
As lethal as ever
Iran
A comic film about a grim subject

Europe
France's presidential election
The end of the beginning
Russian protests
Democracy ｨ､ la russe
Moldova and Russia
A thaw in the river
Turkey's presidency
A Turkish tangle
German history
Merkel's firm hand
Charlemagne
Scotland's Eurodreams
Correction: France's presidential election

Britain
Inflation shock
Mervyn writes that letter
Royal Navy
Sunset seas
Broadband
Pottering along
Jane Austen
Portrait of a lady
Bagehot
To run or not to run

International
The World Bank
Will there be life after Wolfowitz?
Trouble at the OECD
An angel flies into some flak

Business
The internet
From GooTube to GoogleClick
Sex and the internet
Devices and desires
Commercialising space
Ready for take off?
Pedicabs
On your bike
Cigarettes
Thank you for smoking
Foreign investment in India
To cap it all
Joint ventures in China
Wahaha-haha!
Face value
The enigma of Little Sweetie

Special Report
Credit derivatives
At the risky end of finance

Finance & Economics
Exchange-traded funds
Revolution or pollution?
Buy-outs in Canada
DIY
Financial services
Sallie Mae's big day
Mid-sized private-equity deals
When less is more
Remittances
Handled with care
Energy trading
Weather patterns
Economics focus
Womenomics revisited

Science & Technology
Nuclear fusion
Firing new shots
Hypertension
Raising possibilities
Evolutionary biology
A wriggly question
Epigenetics
Serenity and the farm

Books & Arts
The occupation of Iraq
It might have been otherwise
Financial markets
Copy the lowly cockroach Requires subscription
J.R.R. Tolkien
The master's last words Requires subscription
Oil in Africa
The black curse Requires subscription
New fiction
Foreigners with funny accents Requires subscription
Kingsley Amis
Booze and birds Requires subscription
New horror film
Scary Requires subscription

Obituary
Kurt Vonnegut

Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Output, trade and population
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Poverty