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

■Leaders
The deficit problem
Dealing with America's fiscal hole
Food and agriculture
How to feed the world
Barack Obama in Asia
The Pacific (and pussyfooting) president
The end of the Labour government
Last, do no harm
Fund managers' pay
A defective directive

■Letters
On fertility, Colombia, climate change, food, the Berlin Wall, zombies, enterprise

■Briefing
America's fiscal deficit
Stemming the tide
The pros and cons of VAT
A last resort

■United States
America, China and climate change
Let's agree to agree
Barack Obama and Afghanistan
Waiting (and waiting) for a plan
After Guantánamo
Trials to come
Improving education
What to teach?
The New Orleans mayor's race
The job almost no one wants
Maine's cod
Something new
Lexington
Sarah Palin reloads

■The Americas
Mexico's economy
A different kind of recession
Cuba and the United States
Resistant to sticks and carrots
British Columbia's salmon
Socked
Peru and Brazil
Messing around with dams

■Asia
Barack Obama in Asia
Scaling the Asian wall
Afghanistan's anti-corruption drive
Taming the mafia state
Hong Kong's deferred democracy
Softly, softly
Australia's child-migration horror
Better late than never
Sri Lanka's retired army chief
General intentions
A hero for the Philippines
The thriller for Manila
Banyan
Land of Eastern promise

■Middle East & Africa
Yemen's war
Pity those caught in the middle
Congo's constitution
Democracy under threat
Sierra Leone's corruption problem
A mortal enemy
Hope and worry in Zambia
Less poor, less free

■Europe
Europe's public finances
Weighed down
Greek public finances
Arithmetic lesson
Germany's Social Democrats
Archangel Gabriel takes the burden
Municipal politics in France
The mayors' revolt
Slovakia's murky politics
Heading south
History of Italian fascism
Not just Hitler's fool
Turkey's phone-tapping scandal
Who's on the phone?
Charlemagne
A new balance in Europe
Correction: Czech politics

■Britain
Gordon Brown's next six months
The great calculating machine
Reforming financial regulation
A one-trick bill
University students abroad
And is there honey still for tea?
Municipal Wi-Fi
Metro-net
The Conservatives' media policy
Nice guys may finish first [Britain only]
Financing Scottish start-ups
Better up north [Britain only]
Lending to small companies
Now, worry about the upturn [Britain only]
Bagehot
I know my rights

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■International
Feeding the world
If words were food, nobody would go hungry
Food markets
How to store and sell more stuff

■Business
EDF
Nuclear contamination
A spat among professional networks
Class war
The psychology of warranties
Protection racket
LNG expands in Australia
Explosive growth
Counterfeit handsets proliferate in China
Talk is cheap
The global crackdown on corporate bribery
Ungreasing the wheels
Corporate crime is on the rise
The rot spreads
Schumpeter
Remembering Drucker
Award: Gulliver

■Briefing
Monsanto
The parable of the sower

■Finance and Economics
China's exchange-rate policy
A yuan-sided argument
Buttonwood
Something's gotta give
Rebuilding UBS
Ossie's casino
Fund management
Payback time
Spanish banks
Savings and groans
Public-sector finances
The state's take
Economics focus
Green with envy

■Science & Technology
Vehicle telemetry
Calling all cars
Sex and pharmaceuticals
Arousing interest
Tuna fishing
Changing tides
Conservation
In wolf's clothing
Correction: Peat

■Books & Arts
Czechoslovakia
A chequered history
A child in communist Hungary
Little girls, big story
English literature
No plain Jane
Henry V, English hero
Ad majorem Dei gloriam
A diarist dissected
The man in the Panama hat
Orhan Pamuk
Turkish delight
New cinema: Lee Daniels's “Precious”
Escaping from hell

■Obituary
Robert Rines

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Vehicle-scrapping subsidies
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
R&D spending