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

■Leaders
A difficult summer for the White House
Crunch time
America, Israel and Palestine
Get stuck in, Mr President
Japan's elections
Demolition men
Commercial property
A concrete problem
Torture and intelligence
Spies under the thumbscrews
Spain's happy-go-lucky government
When good politics is bad economics

■Letters
On assisted suicide, the United Arab Emirates, American politics, Bolivia, honour killings, Afghanistan, Texas

■Briefing
Spies, torture and terrorism
The dark pursuit of the truth

■United States
Health reform
What now for Obamacare?
The Democratic Party's centrists
Blue Dog days
Crime and exoneration
Hidden evidence
Criminal justice
Room service not included
Optimism in Mobile, Alabama
Let's have a party
Shopping
Keeping it local
California's Chinese-Americans
From nightmare to dream

■The Americas
Canada's stalled economy
The humbling of Detroit North
Post-coup Honduras
Time on whose side?
Affirmative action in Colombia
Debating quotas
Chile's stricken salmon farms
Dying assets
Clarification: Bolivia and Venezuela

■Asia
Japan's election
The opposition peers ahead
Asia's economies
From slump to jump
China's labour laws
Arbitration needed
Gurkhas in Nepal
Old soldiers fade away
Kyrgyzstan's election
Tulips squashed
Initiation rituals in Indian universities
Curbing the ragging trade
Banyan
Malaysia's chameleon

■Middle East & Africa
Israel and Palestine
Not quite as gloomy as they look
Hamas's foreign policy
Acceptance versus recognition
Iran's president in trouble
Ructions at the top
Iraq's Kurdish election
The times they are a-Changing
Sudan's border dispute over Abyei
Do they agree? Yes, no, and sort of
Islamist attacks in Nigeria
A taste of the Taliban

■Europe
The euro-area economy
First, the good news
Spanish devolution and the budget
All must have prizes
Visas in the Balkans
Passport woes
Language rows between Slovakia and Hungary
Hovorte po slovensky!*
Charlemagne
Unwelcome, President Blair
Gennady Timchenko and Gunvor International BV

■Britain
The quality of teachers
Those who can
Army compensation
Lions led by accountants
Regulating estate agents
No code to break
Mortgage lending
Baggage-handling
Brighton's drug scene
High tide [Britain only]
The Liberal Democrat leader
The outrider [Britain only]
Paying for the monarchy
Buck's fizz for the masses [Britain only]

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■International
The centre-left
The challenge of turning malcontents into (sensible) militants

■Business
Shipping in the downturn
Sea of troubles
The Chinese car industry
The ambition of Geely
A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!
Bingoo!
Spotify v illegal downloads
Free but legal
Wind power in America
Becalmed
The recession in advertising
Nothing to shout about
Advertising firms seek sidelines
Stretching the accordion
Face value
A Viennese grind

■Finance and Economics
The collapse in commercial property
Towers of debt
Spain's property market
Tricks and mortar
Financial reform in America
Wobbling
Buttonwood
With one bound…
High-frequency trading
Rise of the machines
Remittances to developing countries
What goes up
Rebalancing the world economy: China
The spend is nigh
Economics focus
Waist banned

■Science & Technology
Modern X-ray technology
Another look inside
Morality and colour
Dark for dark business
Improving scientific publishing
Huddled maths
Global warming and the permafrost
Thaw point

■Books & Arts
The US-Mexican border
A battle of wills and water
Asia's quest for wealth
Going for growth
Arundhati Roy
Necessary, but wrong
Low temperatures
Lovin' a cold climate
Rwenzori Sculpture Foundation
African bronze

■Obituary
Leszek Kolakowski

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Output gaps
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Top companies by market capitalisation