■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
China and America
The odd couple
Currencies
The diminishing dollar
The crisis in Afghanistan
An unwanted second round
Bank bonuses
Compensation claim
Democracy in Africa
A good example

■Letters
On Europe, tax credits, America's “Jewish lobby”, micronutrients, mobile money, Singapore, bank bosses, Canada, language, Admiral West

■Briefing
California's water wars
Of farms, folks and fish

■United States
Crime and politics
The velvet glove
Farmers and climate change
Seeds of discontent
Guantánamo
Home of the brave?
Capital punishment
From arson to politics
Immigration and the law
Still going after them
Criminal trade in human body parts
The skin-and-bone business
Lexington
Harry Reid's dilemma

■The Americas
Belize and Lord Ashcroft
Crossed lines in the Caribbean
Drugs and violence in Rio
The bottom line
Canada's terrorism laws
Dead certs
Uruguay's elections
The mystery behind Mujica's mask

■Asia
Afghanistan's permanent election
Seconds out, round two
South Waziristan
There they go again
Sri Lanka and the EU
Plus and minuses
Japan's new government
In that dawn
Taiwan's jailed former president
Looking for a loophole
Indonesia's new cabinet
Like the last lot
Australia's boat people
Stay the bloody hell where you are
Banyan
Hell on Earth

■Middle East & Africa
Nigeria's hopeful amnesty
A chance to end the Delta rebellion
Somalia's embattled Christians
Almost expunged
Botswana's impatient president
Diamonds are not for ever
Iraq's fragile security
Jangling nerves
Turkey's tantalising television
Happy Arabs, outraged Israelis
Nuclear talks with Iran
Deal or no deal?

■Europe
France, Germany and the European Union
Future dreaming
Eastern Europe's media woes
Shut up or be sued
Turkey and the Kurds
Return of the natives
Silvio Berlusconi and Italy's judges
Injudicious
Serbia's busy foreign policy
Better troublesome than dull
Worries over Bosnia
Balkan scheming
Charlemagne
A single-market celebration

■Britain
Poor whites
On the edge
Bankers' bonuses
Moral outrage
Splitting up banks
Too big to bail out
Britain and Formula 1
Cluster champs
The woes of BAA
Bumpy landing at Gatwick [Britain only]
Foreign aid in a recession
Wrapped up against the cold [Britain only]
Regulating home schooling
An inspector calls [Britain only]
Bagehot
Time for a novice

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■International
The Roman Catholic and Anglican churches
Unleashing the Counter-Reformation
War crimes and international justice
Always get your man
The pros and cons of biofuels
Ethanol tanks
Dirty elections
To the rigger the spoils

■A special report on China and America
A wary respect
Round and round it goes
Tug-of-car
The price of cleanliness
Overkill
A message from Confucius
Sore points
Aiming high
The rich scent of freedom
A dragon of many colours
Source and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
The information-technology industry revives
Back to the circuit board
Domestic outsourcing in India
Bittersweet synergy
Russia raises taxes on beer
Sin-tax error
China and the market for iron ore
Testing their metal
The rise of thin-film solar power
Leaner and cheaper
Schumpeter
The three habits...

■Briefing
America's public debt
Tomorrow's burden

■Finance and Economics
Dollar depreciation
Denial or acceptance
Buttonwood
Squaring the circle
The Galleon affair
All at sea
America's consumer-protection bill
Sizzling away
American banks
The pyramid principle
Venture capital in China
To infinity and beyond
Nigeria's banking clean-up
Invasive surgery
Economics focus
E pluribus tunum
Correction: Citigroup

■Science & Technology
Mass extinctions
I am become Death, destroyer of worlds
Lunar landers
Space hopper
A novel form of fusion power
Psst, kapow!
New ideas for global health
A challenge, eh?

■Books & Arts
The life and views of Ayn Rand
Capitalism's martyred hero
Harlem's days of glory
Gory glamour
The multilateral trade talks
Travails of trade
British military history
Paterfamilias Monty
Cecilia Bartoli's new album
Celestial sacrifice
The art of deception
When it's fun to be fooled

■Obituary
Ludovic Kennedy

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Global imbalances
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Deposit accounts