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

■Leaders
Barack Obama's foreign policy
The quiet American
Europe's motley leaders
Behold, two mediocre mice
Deflation in Japan
The curse of defeatism
The future of entertainment
Middle-class struggle
Climate change
A heated debate

■Letters
On Iraq, Afghanistan, the Conservatives and Europe, gift certificates, Israel, drugs, economics, conjunctions

■Briefing
Pakistan's crises
Front line against the Taliban

■United States
The making of the president's foreign policy
The decider
Health-care reform
The beginning of the end
Climate change
It's off to Denmark we go
Republican governors
A gang of reds
Camden's crisis
Ungovernable?
The Federal Reserve under attack
Poked by pitchforks
Neo-Nazis in Montana
A bunch of losers
Lexington
Loathing Joe Lieberman

■The Americas
Iran and Latin America
Ayatollahs in the backyard
Canada in Afghanistan
Something to hide?
Venezuela's anti-capitalist cars
Wheels of revolution

■Asia
The mosque at Ayodhya
A destructive legacy
Political trials in Bangladesh
The trials of Sheikh Hasina
Sri Lanka's Tamil minority
The power of the ballot
Grand projects in South Korea
Many rivers to cross
China's car market
Exhaust fumes and mirrors
Indonesia's anti-corruption commission
The bland leading the blind
The Philippines' presidential wannabes
Looking for a hero
The politics of violence
Massacre in Mindanao
Banyan
Suffragette city

■Middle East & Africa
Syria
Has it won?
Iraq, Iran, America and The Economist
Were we wrong?
Algeria versus Egypt
Not just a game of football
Strife in eastern Congo
Not quite as bloody as before
Kidnapping in Nigeria
Go for the locals
Namibia's election
Anyone else worth considering?

■Europe
Russian modernisation
Dmitry Medvedev's building project
Spain's economic troubles
Unsustainable
German linguistic correctness
The du und du waltz
Kosovo and Serbia
See you in court
America, NATO and eastern Europe
Disquiet on the eastern front
Charlemagne
We are all Belgians now

■Britain
The religious influence in politics
Missionary positions
Anglo-Catholicism
The joys and perils of flying high
Bank rescues
Bigger than you thought
Bank charges
Knockout
A venture fund for innovation
A taxpayer punt [Britain only]
Britain's woman in Brussels
Gordon's angel [Britain only]
Scotland's minority government
Lessons from a hung parliament [Britain only]
Bagehot
Year zero

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■International
The Commonwealth
Wider still and weaker?
Fighting poverty in emerging markets
The gloves go on

■A special report on the art market
Suspended animation
The world's biggest saleroom
New or secondhand?
How to make art history
The Pop master's highs and lows
Inflatable investments
Treasures reclaimed
A whole new world
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Retail v e-tail in America
Bleak Friday
Bing tries to sign up newspapers
Web-wide war
Eni defies its critics
Another Roman empire
The problem with dual-class shares
More equal than others
Reliance bids for LyondellBasell
A reliable catalyst
PPR spins off CFAO
Out of Africa
MAN, VW and Scania
MAN overboard
Sands China's public offering
A roll of the dice
Schumpeter
Brand royalty

■Briefing
Media
A world of hits

■Finance and Economics
Dubai's debt
Standing still but still standing
Tackling Japan's debt
A load to bear
Parallels between Japan and the West
Same chords, different tune
Pension planning
The retiree's autopilot
Buttonwood
A developing bull market
German banking
Bail-out poker
China's latest commodity boom
The price also stinks
Economics focus
Systems failure

■Science & Technology
Climate change
Mail-strom
Environment
A hill of beans
The Large Hadron Collider
Big is back
Synthetic biology
Your plastic pal

■Books & Arts
European fiction
Spanish eyes
The mystery of money
Both sides of the coin
The Irish bust
Learning to make do and mend
The human brain
Right and left
England's war with France
Once more unto the breach
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Seeing is believing

■Obituary
Earl Cooley

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Metals
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Biggest soverign CDS positions