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

■Leaders
The war in Afghanistan
Losing Afghanistan?
Japan's election
Out with the old
World economy
U, V or W for recovery
American health care
Keep it honest
Britain's Conservatives
Step forward, Dave the brave

■Letters
On energy, Jimmy Carter, efficiency, Uganda's oil, Asian-Americans, home-schooling, lavatories

■Briefing
Afghanistan
From insurgency to insurrection
American opinions on Afghanistan
A war of necessity?

■United States
Health reform
The labours of Sisyphus
Youth unemployment
Left behind
Drinking laws
The 21 Club
The worst unemployment figures
Benefits and the border
Gay-marriage laws
Still waiting
Robert Novak
The prince of darkness
Statewatch: Maryland
Thanks be to DC
Lexington
Still crazy after all these years

■The Americas
Venezuela's education “reforms”
Hugo Chávez seeks to catch them young
Ecuador's education reforms
Correa's curriculum
The Turks and Caicos loses independence
A very British coup

■Asia
Japan's election
Railing against the wrong enemy
Taiwan's typhoon
The political storm
Kim Dae-jung and North Korea
A glint of sunshine
India's failing monsoon
It never rains
Australia's relations with China
Different approaches
A murder in China
Crime and punishment
China's drink-driving crackdown
Call a cab

■Middle East & Africa
Libya and Muammar Qaddafi, 40 years on
How to squander a nation's potential
Israeli politics
Bibi the happy juggler
More bombings in Iraq
Lethal and relentless
An Ethiopian singer freed
Movement of jah people
Zambia's corruption trial
Not guilty

■Europe
Former Yugoslavia patches itself together
Entering the Yugosphere
Germany's election
The parties' tax tangle
Dangerous dogs in Denmark
Shoot the puppy!
Russia and Ukraine
Dear Viktor, you're dead, love Dmitry
Spanish soccer
The drain to Spain
The euro-area economy
Growing apart?

■Britain
An interview with David Cameron
The man who would be prime minister
Transatlantic rift over the NHS
Healthier than thou
Rebuilding Jaguar Land Rover
Tata takes charge [Britain only]
A-level results
Dumbing down: discuss [Britain only]
Children in prison
Growing up banged up [Britain only]
Bagehot
The vanity of ideas

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■International
Piracy and private enterprise
Splashing, and clashing, in murky waters
The Lockerbie decision
A long shadow

■Business
Consumer goods in the recession
The game has changed
Reader's Digest declares bankruptcy
Unsexy and unsuccessful
Publishing in Australia
Copyrights and wrongs
Volkswagen and Porsche
My other car firm's a Porsche
Competition comes to Mexican telecoms
Talking and saving
Cathay Pacific, Air China and Citic Pacific
Landing rights
A row in the champagne industry
Corks at dawn
Face value
Bank to square one

■Briefing
BT's pension problem
Friends, family and grandads too

■Finance and Economics
America's housing market
Where it all began
Housing derivatives
Spark of invention
Monetary policy
Tight corners
South Africa's economy
Late starter
Carbon markets in China
Verdant?
Reforming finance: Resolution regimes
Fail-safe
Payment cards and the poor
A plastic prop
Economics focus
The unkindest cuts

■Science & Technology
Better vaccinations
Hypodermic needless
Influenza vaccination
How to stop an outbreak
The smell of death
The dogs have had their day
Reading bar codes with mobile phones
Snap it, click it, use it
Correction: Lightyears

■Books & Arts
Political philosophy
Mightier than the sword
American conservatism
Overdoing it
Brazilian literature
The slide towards insecthood
New film: “District 9”
Prawns and other illegal aliens
The Tiananmen uprising
Spied from the inside
Les Paul
The man who changed rock music

■Obituary
Gayatri Devi

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
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