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

■Leaders
The war in Afghanistan
Obama's war
Computing
Battle of the clouds
Sri Lanka's interned Tamils
Winners and losers
American health care
What a waste
Currencies
Lessons of the lat
Climate change
Bad policy will boil the planet

■Letters
On climate change, Singapore, financial markets, John Maynard Keynes, the atomic bomb, restructuring, Myanmar, alliteration

■Briefing
Afghanistan and Pakistan
Obama's faltering war
Pakistan's new assault on terrorism
Tackling the other Taliban

■United States
The “mini mid-terms”
Republicans resurgent
Health reform takes a step forward
But don't ask how much it costs
Cap-and-trade
The road to 60
Homosexuality in the Lutheran church
Brotherly love
Gays and hate crimes
Small comfort
Statewatch: Louisiana
After the storm
Lexington
To surge or not to surge

■The Americas
Brazil's recovering economy
Juggling technocrats and party hats
Colombia's resilient economy
No recession here
Mexico's monopolies
Power to the people
Trade unions in Canada
All struck out
Ecuador's president
Family fallout

■Asia
Thailand's former prime minister
Exile and the kingdom
China's private coalmines
The pendulum swings against the pit
Vietnam's crackdown on dissent
To discourage the others
Japan's eco-diplomacy
Starry-eyed
Banyan
History wars

■Middle East & Africa
South Africa and corruption
He promises a big clean-up
China and Africa
Don't worry about killing people
Madagascar and regional diplomacy
Coups can still pay
Palestinian farmers
Not much of an olive branch
Education in the Arab world
Laggards trying to catch up
Egypt and the veil
No shame in showing your face

■Europe
Sarkozy and morality
We're in it up to here
German politics
Colours of Jamaica
Romania's government
Progress, of a sort and at a price
Russia
Soviet words and deeds
Latvia, its neighbours and eastern Europe
Baltic brinkmanship
Charlemagne
Where there's a will there's a row

■Britain
Energy and climate change
Questioning the invisible hand
Press freedom and the internet
Barbra Streisand strikes again
Postal strike
On the brink
City jobs
After the cull
Expenses scandal redux
Bills before Parliament [Britain only]
Selling public property
Gordon's gimmick [Britain only]
Scotland's fishing industry
Trawling for new ideas [Britain only]
Fish and financial crisis
Currency catches [Britain only]

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■International
Abortion
A bit better
Global-warming diplomacy
Bangkok blues
Intersexuality
A question of sex

■Business
Selling foreign goods in China
Impenetrable
Business news in China
Bad advertisement
Renault's electric-car gamble
Mr Ghosn bets the company
American courts ponder “honest service”
Are you being served?
Italy's business clusters
Sinking together
The fight for GVT
Call options
Business schools in the recession
Resilient wreckers
Schumpeter
Someone to watch over them
Award: Ludwig Siegele

■Briefing
Cloud computing
Clash of the clouds

■Finance and Economics
Credit in America
Slim pickings, no appetite
Buttonwood
Banking on the banks
Citigroup sells Phibro
Pandit and the playthings
Emotions and investing
Gutted instinct
Derivatives regulation
Pretty nitty-gritty
Macrofinance in Bangladesh
Call of the market
Unconventional monetary policy
Loose thinking
Bruce Wasserstein
Bidding farewell
Economics focus
Reality bites

■Science & Technology
The rise of epigenomics
Methylated spirits
Not watching the Earth from space
Satellites in the alphabet soup
Conservation and cookery
Eat for the ecosystem
Through-the-wall vision
Looking beyond
The evolution of flying reptiles
A patchwork quilt

■Books & Arts
British history
England's revolution
Cold-war history
Sorcerers and apprentices
Prostitution in Georgian London
Harlot's progress
New novel about ancient Rome
Pride and fall
Robert Frank's photographs
A sad poem of American life
The Cape Town Opera on tour
I loves you, Porgy

■Obituary
Reinhard Mohn

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP forecasts
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
MBA salaries