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

■Leaders
Health-care reform in America
This is going to hurt
Germany's inscrutable chancellor
The mystery of Mrs Merkel
Iran's crisis
It is far from over
Lord Elgin and the Parthenon marbles
Snatched from northern climes
Business-networking websites
Insider out
Ageing in the rich world
The end of retirement

■Letters
On Silvio Berlusconi, malaria, European institutions, blue-collar workers, freedom of information, debt, financial expectations, emissions, Asia, Peter Mandelson

■Briefing
Germany's chancellor
Merkel is the message

■United States
The recession and pay
The quiet Americans
Welfare claims surge
Helping the needy
The Voting Rights Act
Sacred, or outdated
Captain America
He's back
Cleaning the Great Lakes
Swimming with E. coli
Gays and the census
Counting them in
Statewatch: Washington
Not by aircraft alone
Lexington
The senator-in-chief

■The Americas
Coca and cocaine in the Andes
Mixed signals among the coca bushes
Drug policy in the Americas
At last, a debate
Venezuela's media
Chávez's bugbear
Municipal corruption in Canada
Water and grime

■Asia
India's Naxalites
A ragtag rebellion
Indian-held Kashmir
Grim up north
Taiwan's president and China
Sorry, the offer's closed
China's internet censors
Dammed if you do
North Korea's Myanmar links
Cocking a snuke
Myanmar's beleaguered Karens
On the run
Banyan
Burying Asia's savage past

■Middle East & Africa
The crisis in Iran
Is the dream already over?
Iran's debate over theocracy
Why the turbans are at odds
Security in Iraq
Is it getting worse again?
Somalia and its jihadists
A government under the cosh

■Europe
Germany's mediocre universities
On shaky foundations
France ponders a burqa ban
No cover up
Sarkozy addresses parliament
The state of the state
Troubled Ireland and Europe
Lisbon's last hope
Silvio Berlusconi's woes
A conqueror, not an end-user
Charlemagne
A hopper but not a pleaser
Correction: Eva Joly

■Britain
Racism
From the streets to the courts
TIFs and urban development
Regenerating cities
Dentists and the NHS
Toothache
The Conservatives in the EU
Eurochums
MPs choose a new figurehead
Laws, sausages, speakers [Britain only]
Wildcat strikes
Lockout [Britain only]
Setanta goes bust
Heroic failure [Britain only]
Bagehot
The last judgment

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■International
Migration and climate change
A new (under) class of travellers
The World Bank and the environment
When the learning curve is long

■A special report on ageing populations
A slow-burning fuse
Suffer the little children
A world of Methuselahs
The silver dollar
Scrimp and save
Work till you drop
China’s predicament
Into the unknown
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
LinkedIn v freemasons
Joining the club
Software that spots hidden networks
Electronic ties that bind
The recession hits Fininvest
Relegated
Formula One's civil war
Mosley submits
Anglo American spurns Xstrata
Anglophilia, Xstrataphobia
Sinopec buys Addax
Bottom of the barrel
GE and industrial loan companies
Parting company
Face value
Mr Clean

■Briefing
Reforming American health care
Heading for the emergency room

■Finance and Economics
Consumer spending in Asia
Shopaholics wanted
Buttonwood
Tied to the mast
Chinese IPOs resume
Thirst-quenching
Money-market funds under scrutiny
Sleep therapy
Friction in world trade
Duties call
The craze for clearing houses
Counter insurgency
Mortgage defaults in America
Can pay, won't pay
Economics focus
Deliver us from competition

■Science & Technology
A new display technology
Spots of innovation
The earliest granaries
Food for thought
Informed consent and virtual worlds
The avatar will see you now
Lightweight dinosaurs
Not so terrible
The evolutionary origin of depression
Mild and bitter

■Books & Arts
New Acropolis Museum opens
Milestones
Books on the credit crunch
First draft of history
Violence in eastern Anatolia
Give up the g-word
Constitutional democracy
Power to the people
Werner Herzog and “Fitzcarraldo”
Drama and melodrama
Correction: “Phèdre”

■Obituary
Ralf Dahrendorf

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Heroin prices
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
World's biggest bank losses