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The world this week
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Business this week
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Leaders
Government and business in America
Piling on
North Korea's nuclear spectacular
Kim Jong Il's bombshell
Fighting the Pakistani Taliban
A necessary catastrophe
China, America and the yuan
Time for a Beijing bargain
Computing
Unlocking the cloud

Letters
On animal testing, the news, New Orleans, northern Cyprus, Israel, boss-napping, Thatcherism, Tom Joad, MPs' expenses

Briefing
Government v market in America
The visible hand

United States
Barack Obama's Supreme Court choice
Scrutinising Sonia
The Guant疣amo row
Cross purposes
Cities and their deficits
Staring into the abyss
Detroit's new mayor
Baptism by five-alarm fire
Gourmandise in New England
The baguettes can stay
Lexington
Tough enough?

The Americas
Canada's relations with the United States
Stop, border ahead
Mexico's deep recession
Not made here
Drug gangs in Canada
British Columbia or Colombia?
Argentina's farming in crisis
Parched earth, empty barns
Chile's coming presidential election
Winds of change

Asia
North Korea's nuclear test
On mushroom cloud two
Japanese politics
Noh debate
Pakistan's borderland war
Swatting militants
India's new government
A well-made cabinet
Sri Lanka's war
After the slaughter
Nepal's political crisis
Mr Nepal lucks out
Twenty years after Tiananmen
Silence on the square
Banyan
The party goes on

Middle East & Africa
Lebanon's election
Will the shaky equilibrium hold?
Israel and its Arabs
No, you can't say that
Iraq's Kurdish oil
Kurdistan goes glug glug
Sierra Leone and its diamonds
Digging in the dumps
Fighting in Nigeria's Delta
Getting desperate
Africa's economies in the downturn
Prudence can win

Europe
Nicolas Sarkozy and France's opposition
All the president's enemies
Poland's legacy of 1989
Still in the soup
German history and the Stasi
The gunshot that hoaxed a generation
Political turmoil in Georgia
The opposition locks itself up, and out
Charlemagne
The worst of times, the best of times

Britain
Britain's relationship with Europe
Out of sight, out of mind
The march of Euroscepticism
More want less
Tense times as elections loom
Testing the water
Oxford poets at war
Natural selection
Green shoots in garden centres
Blooms in the bust
Nurturing small businesses
Battery farm
Presbyterians and gay ministers
Swinging both ways
Bagehot
The baby with the moat water
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International
Amnesty International
Taking on the sins of the world Previous print editions

A special report on business in America
Surviving the slump
Trading down
Creative destruction
Red tape and scissors
Life is expensive
A green revolution
The fragile web of foreign trade
The coming recovery
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

Business
Indian firms' foreign purchases
Gone shopping
Chinese firms' foreign investments
Sino-Trojan horse
The bidding for GM Europe
The fight for Opel
ACS and Iberdrola
Tilting at windmills
Cost-cutting in Asia
A snip at the price
Open-source software in the recession
Born free
Face value
Ding dong! Empowerment calling

Briefing
Restraints on executive pay
Attacking the corporate gravy train

Finance and economics
Overhauling financial regulation
The regulatory rumble begins
Buttonwood
Not so risk-free
Lloyd's of London
Eggs and baskets
China's dubious earnings numbers
Red flags
Headaches for a hedge-fund manager
Good gRIEF
The Gulf's nascent bond market
Crisis and opportunity
Why banks sponsor sport
Play on
Economics focus
What's mine is yours

Science & Technology
The National Ignition Facility
On target, finally
The origin of swine flu
Putting the pieces together
The behavioural effects of video games
Good game?
Tool use by non-tool-using animals
Sticks and stones

Books & Arts
D-Day and the Normandy landings
The full version
Leonard Bernstein
A political life
Middle East diplomacy
Myths, illusions and peace
Alice Munro's short stories
A well-deserved win
Mark Kurlansky
America eats, belatedly
The Herg・museum
Totally Tintin

Obituary
Roh Moo-hyun

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