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

■Leaders
Japan's election
The vote that changed Japan
Russia's past
The unhistory man
Sudan and Darfur
The generals have got it right
Trade agreements
Doing Doha down
Digital publishing
Google's big book case
Electric cars
Charge!

■Letters
On Italy's south, America's fishing industry, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Edward Kennedy, France's health system, American regions, words

■Briefing
Japan's election
Lost in transition

■United States
Republicans and Democrats in Congress
Why can't they just get on?
Ted Kennedy's Senate successor
Can the dream live on?
The Virginia governor's race
Sins of the student
The Jaycee Dugard kidnapping
A tragedy of errors
The Juanes row in Miami
If music be the food of love...
Gambling in Florida
Indian gold
The Mark Sanford soap opera
Five hundred more days?
Lexington
The politics of death

■The Americas
Brazil's oil policy
Preparing to spend a “millionaire ticket” from offshore
Venezuela's oil policy
A sticky proposition
Term limits in Colombia
Closer to Uribe 3.0
The Vancouver winter Olympics
Sliding off piste

■Asia
War and politics in Afghanistan
McChrystal in the bull ring
The People's Republic at 60
A harmonious and stable crackdown
The Dalai Lama in Taiwan
Splittists' reunion
Sri Lanka and the EU
Losing touch with old friends
Malaysian politics
Dropping a Klanger
Asian trade
The noodle bowl

■Middle East & Africa
Iraq's freedoms under threat
Could a police state return?
Lebanon's mixed marriages
Not at home
Iran's dissenting students
Trying to pep up the opposition
The crisis in Darfur
Neither all-out war nor a proper peace
An East African Federation
Big ambitions, big question-marks
Africa and climate change
A green ransom
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■Europe
Germany's elections
Not yet in Angela Merkel's bag
France returns to work
Back from the beach
Silvio Berlusconi's troubles
Superman strikes back
Turkish-Armenian relations
Football diplomacy
Greece calls an election
Socialist hope
Russia, Poland and history
Mr Putin regrets
Charlemagne
Turkey's circular worries

■Britain
Reform of the civil service
Retooling the Rolls-Royce
Britain's Eurocrats
Back in the saddle again
Gordon Brown's Lockerbie problem
Nowhere to hide
Lockerbie and Scottish politics
A dream fades
Flourishing tourism
Pulling them in [Britain only]
Lessons from Lehman
Turf woes [Britain only]
Vice and social class
Pissed and posh [Britain only]
Bagehot
Into the vortex

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■International
Child welfare
The nanny state
Journalists in jail
The price of truth

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Keeping pirates at bay
Monitor
Tilting in the breeze
Monitor
Span of control
Monitor
Keeping a grip
Monitor
Trappings of waste
Monitor
Air power
Monitor
The taxonomy of tumours
Monitor
The digital geographers
Monitor
Washing without water
Monitor
Hard act to follow
Monitor
Memories are made of this
Monitor
Only humans allowed
Rational consumer
The road ahead
Mobile augmented reality
Reality, improved
Unmanned military aircraft
Attack of the drones
Case history
A factory on your desk
Biohacking
Hacking goes squishy
3-D imaging
3-D: It's nearly there
Brain scan
Paranoid survivor
Offer to readers

■Business
Business in Japan under the DPJ
New bosses
The stigma of wealth in China
Original sin
China invests in Canada's tar sands
Upgraded
Walt Disney buys Marvel Entertainment
Of mouse and X-Men
Google books
Tome raider
Oracle and Sun Microsystems
Europe steps in
Selling designer goods online
When cheap is exclusive
Face value
Dummies for finance

■Briefing
The electrification of motoring
The electric-fuel-trade acid test

■Finance and Economics
Banks' funding needs
Total liabilities
Funding rules in New Zealand
Lord of the ratios
Decoding money-supply data
Narrow success, broad concerns
Buttonwood
Be thankful they don't take it all
Derivatives contracts in China
Our loss, your problem
The wealth effect
Withdrawal symptoms
Gary Gensler, derivatives cop
A new sheriff
Economics focus
The incredible shrinking surplus

■Science & Technology
AIDS vaccines
A fluttering in the breeze
The origin of diabetes
Don't blame your genes
Education, psychology and technology
Games lessons
Antibiotics
A spineless solution
Correction: Folic acid

■Books & Arts
The evidence for evolution
It's all there
The evolution of empathy
Less brutish, still short
Globalisation
The value of history
The Islamic veil
Out from under
A surgeon's life
Death and sex
William Golding
Not a one-trick pony

■Obituary
Stanley Robertson

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
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Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Hotel occupancy rates