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

■Leaders
Demography, growth and the environment
Falling fertility
Prisoners
Let them vote
Postal services
Sort it out
Regulating health food
The proof of the pudding
Capital controls
Raining on India's parade
American health reform
Back from the dead

■Letters
On the European presidency, climate change, sand exports, Latvia, Thailand, managing banks, Easter Island, military advice

■Briefing
Fertility and living standards
Go forth and multiply a lot less
Low fertility
The rich are different

■United States
The economy
A joyless recovery
Health-care reform
A public row
Obama and the unions
Love of Labour
New York's special election
Not right enough
Mayoral elections
Hard to dislodge
American Jews and Israel
J Street puts a foot in the door
Public-school education
Desert excellence
Cops and crime in Los Angeles
Exit Bratton
Dallas does culture
Lights down, curtain up
Lexington
One year of The One

■The Americas
Colombia's paramilitaries
Militias march again
Panama's financial industry
Shades of grey
Argentina's debt negotiations
Settling up
Canada and the monarchy
Heir not so apparent?

■Asia
Afghanistan's bloody election
An election under siege
Terrorism in Pakistan
A hostile ally
China's navy off Somalia
Cash and carry
South-East Asian summitry
Distant dreams
Japan's samurai culture
They need another hero
Banyan
Himalayan histrionics

■Middle East & Africa
Turkey and the Middle East
Looking east and south
Riots in Jerusalem
Just like old times?
Tunisia's durable president
One-man show
Bombs and politics in Iraq
No end in sight
Protecting displaced Africans
Selective rescue

■Europe
Germany
Angela's new team claims its seats...
French corruption scandals
Peering into the murk
Italy's opposition
Into the ring against Silvio
Baltic economies
The Estonian exception
Spain's political scandals
The problem with Don Vito's friends
NATO and Russia
War games
Charlemagne
Deciding Europe's place in the world

■Britain
Reforming the centralised state
The great giveaway
A prisoner seeks the vote
Conviction politics
Reshaping British banking
Rock carving
Tony Blair for Brussels
El Presidente
The Bank of England's next step
Engineering that elusive recovery [Britain only]
The pickup in sales
Mall nutrition [Britain only]
Scottish history and politics
Old wars, new battles [Britain only]
Bagehot
Cameron's ransom

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■International
Public-service careers
A tough search for talent

■Business
The world's ailing postal services
Dead letter
JBS spreads its wings
Cluck, moo, oink, ka-ching
Airline alliances and antitrust
All together now
America's struggling newspapers
Big is best
Yum! Brands' new corporate culture
Taking the hill less climbed
Elections to American boards
Sinecures in peril
Geely closes in on Volvo
On a roll
Schumpeter
Fish out of water

■Briefing
Nestlé
The unrepentant chocolatier

■Finance and Economics
India and capital flows
A world apart
Buttonwood
Bribing the markets
ING breaks up
Slimming cures
Dubai's debt mountain
Dredging the debt
The outlook for private equity
Sticking-plasters of the universe
Economics focus
Buffer warren

■Science & Technology
Nutrition and health
Food, glorious food
Nutrition
Note to self
Wine and sea food
Red rags
Cheaper desalination
Current thinking
NASA's new rocket
The first (and last?) flight of Ares

■Books & Arts
The story of Vincent van Gogh
An artist making art
Wall Street's crisis
Book of revelations
Islam and the West
Those pesky cartoons
A biography of Jacques Cousteau
A creature of the shallows
Swedish crime fiction
Don't mess with her
New York theatres
Leaner the better

■Obituary
Richard Sonnenfeldt

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Greenhouse-gas emissions
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Pension funds