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

■Leaders
America and Russia
Welcome to Moscow
The coup in Honduras
Lousy president, terrible precedent
Financial reform in the EU
Neither one thing nor the other
Education in America and Britain
Learning lessons from private schools
The relaunch of Gordon Brown
The vision thing

■Letters
On schooling, Christina Romer, ethics, Brazil, Cambodia, Chevron, asylum seekers, pay, verbs

■Briefing
Russian-American relations
In search of détente, once again

■United States
Climate change, health care and the budget
A squeaker, with more to come
A comedian in the Senate
Eight months later
Green spending and stimulus
Curiously slow
A year at the Supreme Court
Fairness for firefighters
State budgets in crisis
Happy new year
Unemployment insurance
More money, more problems
Captain Hudson’s journey
Fair to foul and back again
Lexington
Two cheers for America

■The Americas
The coup in Honduras
Defying the outside world
Argentina’s mid-term election
Walloped
Brazil’s licensed thinker
A sage exits, maybe left
Mexico’s mid-term election
Tilting to the PRI
Conservation in Ecuador
Trees or oil

■Asia
Indonesia's presidential election
More of the same
India's new identity card
Peering into their murky world
Malaysia's racial-preference policy
Son versus sons
Japanese politics
A kick up the Aso
Thailand's lèse majesté law
Treason in cyberspace
Banyan
When the catfish stirs

■Middle East & Africa
Iran’s disputed presidential election
A hollow victory
Royalist politics in Morocco
The king’s friend
Fighting AIDS in Sudan
Imams, tea ladies and condoms
Meeting Somalia’s Shabab
The next jihad
Chinese aid to Africa
Spreading its bets, and its gold
South Africa and football’s World Cup
On goal for 2010

■Europe
Italy and the G8 summit
A cavalier preparing to host the world
Hip-hop in France
A hip-hop happening they had of it
Ukraine, Russia and gas
Energetic blackmail
Reforms in Turkey
Marching along
Albania’s tight election
Close but no government
Kosovo and media freedom
No criticism, please
Charlemagne
Those exceptional Swedes
Correction: Jan Fischer and Opel

■Britain
Gordon Brown's latest relaunch
The election starts here
New plans for schools
Never-ending story
Economic prospects
After the fall
ID cards for farm animals
Shepherd's warning
PFI deals in recession
Singing the blues [Britain only]
Private prisons
Criminal enterprises [Britain only]
Renationalising the railways
End of the line [Britain only]
Bagehot
The kindness of history

■International
World food prices
Whatever happened to the food crisis?

■Business
Corporate tax
Escaping the shakedown
Foreign oil firms in Iraq
Waiting game
Restructuring South Korea's chaebol
A helping hand
Corporate bankruptcies in America
The boom in busts
Airlines in the recession
Running on empty
The recession spurs self-service
Help yourself
Russia's dismal investment climate
Courting disaster
Face value
The alternative choice

■Briefing
Private schools in the recession
Staying on board

■Finance and Economics
Appraising the European Central Bank
Hard talk, soft policy
Buttonwood
Caveat creditor
Japanese banking liberalisation
Knocking down the wall
The rise of dark pools
Attack of the clones
Volatility in interest-rate swaps
Rate expectations
House prices and the wealth effect
Home discomforts
Bernard Madoff
The Madoff affair
Reforming finance: the EU's proposals
Divided by a common market
Economics focus
Put out
Award: Bill Emmott

■Science & Technology
New materials for renewable energy
The power of being made very small
A new way to keep hydrogen
Plumage power
Babies' names and the internet
Local yokels

■Books & Arts
Communism
Dead end
Russia's intelligentsia under communism
Yearning to be free
Barack Obama's presidential campaign
Man of the moment
Early British tourists
The rosbifs arrive
Raising goats
Nanny diaries
James Ensor at the Museum of Modern Art
Masked ball

■Obituary
Michael Jackson

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
High-net-worth individuals
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global mergers and acquisitions