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

■Leaders
Public debt
The biggest bill in history
Gordon Brown stumbles on
Reprieved
The worrying European elections
Trouble at the polls
Deforestation and carbon credits
Seeing REDD in the Amazon
Wall Street and the taxpayer
Thanks, for nothing
Sri Lanka after the war
Victory's rotten fruits

■Letters
On carbon taxes, Myanmar, Chevron in Ecuador, finance, MPs' expenses, guns

■Briefing
The Amazon
The future of the forest
Oil and land rights in Peru
Blood in the jungle

■United States
The politics of debt
Seeing red
The decennial census
The knock on the door
The Caperton v Massey case
Not for sale
Rural health reform
Small steps
Cracking down on illegal immigration
The Missouri way
Criminal law in California
A voice for the forsaken
Do charter schools work?
Time for a test
New York's new casino
A break at last
Lexington
The underworked American
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The Americas
Brazil's recovering economy
Ready to roll again
Waste disposal in Colombia
Muck and brass plates
Canadians abroad
Some are on their own

■Asia
America and China talk climate change
Heating up or cooling down?
Bangladesh's government
Keeping its head above water
The sex industry in Cambodia
The traffic police
Unrest in Uzbekistan
Fata Fergana
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
Here comes trouble
Banyan
Chasing ghosts
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Middle East & Africa
Crisis in Sudan
The promise and peril of independence
South Africa's trade unions
Payback time?
Shell in Nigeria
Spilling over
Lebanon's election
A win for the West
Israel and America
A test of friendship

■Europe
The European elections
Swing low, swing right
France's victorious centre-right
Sarkozy on top
The Eurosceptic Dutch
Wilders rides in
Berlusconi loses ground
But still it moves
Germany looks to September
Merkel's mood music
Spain's People's Party wins
Rajoy ahoy
Scary elections in eastern Europe
Time to start fretting
Latvia's economic woes
Lat in the lurch
Charlemagne
The endless election round

■Britain
The survival of Gordon Brown
Stoppable force meets immovable object
The BNP's breakthrough
Booted and suited
Suing the Omagh bombers
Justice, of a sort
Secret evidence in court
Time to show your hand, or fold
The anti-terrorist hotline
Not very hot
Public and private pensions
Worlds apart
Bagehot
Peter's pet

■International
The UN's secretary-general
The score at half-time
Conserving forests
REDDy and waiting Previous print editions

■A special report on the euro area
Holding together
A tortuous path
One size fits none
No exit
The non-nuclear options
Fear of floating
Soft centre
Warmer inside
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Netbooks
Small but disruptive
Smart-phone wars
Pre conceived
Arcandor's bankruptcy
The till is bare
India's cheap housing boom
The nano home
The plight of Ford
A stony road
Executive pay in America
Principles, not pitchforks
Face value
Steel and brass

■Briefing
Government debt
The big sweat

■Finance and economics
Repaying TARP money
Hauled to safety
Buttonwood
Caught short
Banks' exposure to eastern Europe
Stand by me
Sovereign credit-default swaps
Muffled signals
America's life-settlement industry
From mortgages to mortality
The sale of BGI
Selling the family silver
The IMF's search for funds
Promises, promises
Paul Krugman's London lectures
Dismal science
Economics focus
Fatalism v fetishism

■Science & Technology
Solar-powered manned flight
Flying for ever
Positive thinking's negative results
Words of wisdom
Drug-resistant infections
Fighting superbugs
The science of ageing wine
Box clever
Anti-mist coatings
Not misty for me

■Books & Arts
An exhibition of medieval drawings
Images to delight and confound
The inefficiency of markets
Slaves to some defunct economist
Venezuela's curious coup
Riddle wrapped in a mystery
History of science
Crooked path to universal truth
Harold Varmus's life as a scientist
The journey of an inquiring mind
Anti-smoking activism
Puff by puff, inch by inch

■Obituary
Danny La Rue

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Oil reserves
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Stockmarkets