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

■Leaders
The financial industry
Unnatural selection
Indonesia's future
A golden opportunity
Barack Obama's health-care speech
The art of the possible
Elections in Afghanistan
Re-rigging Hamid Karzai
Fiscal policy
The other exit strategy
Proliferation from North Korea and Iran
Will Russia and China pitch in?

■Letters
On the Lockerbie bombing, “birthers”, Africa's population, responsibility to protect, “Inglourious Basterds”

■Briefing
India's water crisis
When the rains fail

■United States
The president weighs in on health reform
Fired up and ready to go
The cap-and-trade bill
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Barack Obama's falling ratings
The summer of waning love
The trouble with pornography
Hard times
Off-track betting in crisis
Flogging a dead horse
Older workers and the recession
Still good for a few more years
Black cowboys
Urban rodeo
Lexington
Free speech for me, but not for thee
Correction: Gambling in Florida

■The Americas
Mexico's embattled president
Calderón tries again
Venezuela and Colombia
Politics versus trade
Ecuador, Argentina and the IMF
The price of pride
Canada's wine industry
Outsourcing terroir

■Asia
Tension in Xinjiang
The party under siege in Urumqi
Vietnam's nationalist bloggers
Getting it off your chest
Kazakhstan's human-rights record
Dangerous driving
War in Afghanistan
Collateral damage of every sort
Banyan
Ichiro Ozawa: the shadow shogun

■Middle East & Africa
Strife in Yemen
The world's next failed state?
The Palestinians' West Bank
Not as horrible as it was
A metro for the Emirates
All that glisters...
Africa's diplomacy over Zimbabwe
Robert Mugabe off the hook as usual
Zimbabwe's still-muzzled press
Alternative voices longing to be heard
Guns in Africa
Out of control

■Europe
America and eastern Europe
End of an affair?
Germany's energy debate
Nuclear power? Yes, maybe
French criminal justice
A delicate judgment
Turkey, Cyprus and NATO
Fogh in the Aegean
Spain's growing budget deficit
Taxing times
Spain's judiciary
Judge Garzón in the dock
Charlemagne
Germany's oddly vapid election

■Britain
The ethics of Labour's foreign policy
Angels and demons
Military exports
No farewell to arms
The airline bombers
Bang to rights
Politics and the spending squeeze
The chancellor's eyebrows
The growth of home tutoring
Top-up teaching [Britain only]
Teaching assistants
Unintended consequences [Britain only]
Televised election debates
Ready for his close-up? [Britain only]
Britain and Montenegro
An Anglo-Balkan moment [Britain only]
Bagehot
The end of the age of war

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■International
UNESCO and World Heritage Sites
The limits of soft cultural power
UNESCO's leadership
A race or a death-wish?
Iran, North Korea and the bomb
Spinning dark new tales
Higher education and the recession
It still pays to study

■A special report on Indonesia
A golden chance
More of the same, please
Free to air
Things do not fall apart
Tolerance levels
Surprise, surprise
More than a single swallow
Not making it easy
A deep-rooted habit
Acacia avenue
Everybody's friend
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Mergers and acquisitions make a comeback
The return of the deal
China's struggling smaller firms
Small fish in a big pond
The World Bank's Doing Business report
Reforming through the tough times
Employers spying on staff
Big Brother bosses
The travails of Turkey's Dogan Yayin
Dogan v Erdogan
Face value
Iliad's warrior

■Briefing
Wall Street's new shape
Rearranging the towers of gold

■Finance and Economics
Making fiscal policy credible
Bind games
The boss of CIT
Peek. Agh. Boo
The G20 meetings
What next?
Buttonwood
Too big for its Gucci boots
Bankruptcy fees
Boom, bust, bonanza
Speculators and the oil price
Data drilling
Banco Santander in Brazil
Push the float out
Patents as financial assets
Trolls demanding tolls
Economics focus
What if?

■Science & Technology
Space
Flying high
Tuna and pollock
A tale of two fisheries
Self-erasing paper
Fade to red
Earthquake-proof bridges
Beaten but not broken

■Books & Arts
Lehman Brothers and the crisis
A year on
The Fed and the crisis
Financial firefighting
Charles Dickens
An extravagant imagination
Seahorses
How odd, how lovely
British reportage
Goodbye to all that
Skellig Michael
An Irish riddle wrapped in a mystery

■Obituary
Sergei Mikhalkov

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, September averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Education spending