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

■Leaders
Economics
What went wrong with economics
A general election called in Japan
Time's up for the LDP
The war in Afghanistan
Hold your nerve
Mark-to-market accounting
Divine intervention
Online gambling in Europe
Stacking the deck
Assisted suicide
Going gently

■Letters
On American health care, Russia, food, private schools, Angela Merkel

■Briefing
British forces in Afghanistan
And the soldier home from the hill
Correction: Uighurs

■United States
The Supreme Court
Empathy v law
Oversight of the Federal Reserve
Unwelcome attention
Congress's new health-care plan
Soak the rich
Investigating torture
Looking back in anger
Education reform in Massachusetts
A chance for charters
Online education
Raising Alabama
Latinos and religion
Separated brothers
Lexington
Glad to be godless

■The Americas
Bolivia's divisive president
The permanent campaign
Peru's reshuffled government
Playing for time
Mexico and the disabled
Lending a hand

■Asia
China's recovery
A fine balancing act
The Uighurs, Central Asia and Turkey
Troubles across Turkestan
Malaysia's opposition
Anwar holds the PAS
India and Pakistan
Sharm offensive
Child soldiers in Sri Lanka
Retraining Tiger cubs
Muslim insurgency in the Philippines
Jolo man
Banyan
End of the line for the LDP

■Middle East & Africa
Barack Obama and Africa
How different is his policy?
Equatorial Guinea's durable president
Oil makes friends of us all
An election in Iraqi Kurdistan
Change in the air?
Honour killings in Syria
The law changes. Will attitudes?
Iran's Mir Hosein Mousavi
Out of his shell
The Arabs' view of Iran
Mixed feelings

■Europe
Energy in Europe
He who pays for the pipelines calls the tune
German politicians and pipelines
Joschka Fischer v Gerhard Schröder
Turkey's fragile economy
Fund management
Silvio Berlusconi's success
In heaven or hell
Russia's north Caucasus
A mountain of troubles
Charlemagne
Playing the parliamentary game

■Britain
Rising youth unemployment
No way to start out in life
Private schools as charities
The axeman cometh
Energy and climate change
Show us the money
The spread of swine flu
Don't panic―yet
Organised crime
Making a killing [Britain only]
Care for the elderly
Nothing to write home about [Britain only]
Social trends
The decline of the English divorce [Britain only]
Bagehot
Tory splits!

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■International
The rights of Arctic peoples
Not a barren country

■Business
America's hospital industry
Taking a scalpel to costs
Drugs companies and poor countries
All together now
China and the Rio Tinto detentions
The steel fist of government
Kirin and Suntory discuss a merger
Kanpai!
Online gambling in Europe
A stacked deck
Spain tries to encourage start-ups
Nurturing the youngsters
Face value
Turning up the gas

■Briefing
The state of economics
The other-worldly philosophers

■Financial economics
Efficiency and beyond
Finance and Economics
Is Wall Street back to normal?
Keeping up with the Goldmans
Banks and bonuses
Going overboard
Private placements in Asia
Silent disaster
Buttonwood
Dropping a brick
The Big Mac index
Cheesed off
Reforming finance: Accounting standards
Marks and sparks
Economics focus
A partial marvel

■Science & Technology
Human spaceflight
Over the moon?
Biofuels from algae
Craig's twist
The search for dark matter
Ethereal yet weighty

■Books & Arts
Danton and the French revolution
Devoured by his own creation
The economics of Free
Nice but tricky
How betting online began
An easy birth
The world's earliest Bible
A good read
The race to the moon
Glory days
Wolfson museums of decorative art
Big Daddy and his awkward sons-in-law
Correction: Yuri Zhivago

■Obituary
John Bachar

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
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