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

■Leaders
The Copenhagen Summit
Stopping climate change
Diplomacy runs out with Iran
Thank you, Mr Putin and Mr Hu
The surge in Afghanistan
The perils of keeping everybody happy
Risk after Dubai
When sovereign doesn't mean safe
Latin America
Honduras defies the world
Our favourite prime minister
Time to say addio

■Letters
On America's budget deficit, climate change, Russia, Germany, file-sharing, companies, Congo, hummus and peace, voting rights

■Briefing
Nuclear proliferation
An Iranian nuclear bomb, or the bombing of Iran?
The Panama Canal
A plan to unlock prosperity

■United States
The jobs summit
Any ideas?
Black unemployment
Not so colour-blind
State finances
Keynes in reverse
Mortgage repayments
Time to fold
Rows over the Nativity
No crib for a bed
Mexico and America
Gently does it
Lexington
Obama, the worried warrior

■The Americas
Honduras's presidential election
Voting to move onwards and upwards
Colombia and the United States
Off base

■Asia
The surge in Afghanistan
The beginning or the end?
India's recovering economy
Vroom, vroom
India and climate-change negotiations
Back to basics
Australia's emissions-trading row
Cap, trade and block
North Korea's currency grab
No wonder
Battling deflation in Japan
Waking up to reality
Banyan
The world's forgotten fair

■Middle East & Africa
Iraq and the Kirkuk conundrum
A hint of harmony, at last
Diplomacy between Israel and Palestine
Bluff and bargain
Land reform in South Africa
Hurry up
Equatorial Guinea's election
Oh we love you so
Rwanda's laptop revolution
Upgrading the children

■Europe
Italy's troubled prime minister
Under attack from all sides
The new European Commission
The battle of Barroso
Terrorism in Russia
Bombings away
Turkey and the West
Testy Erdogan
Greater Paris
Wider still and wider
Denmark hosts the world
Rasmussen III in the spotlight
Charlemagne
The Swiss in the middle

■Britain
Commercial-property blues
Lenders' dilemma
The new Iraq war inquiry
Looking back in anger
Newspapers online
The promiscuity problem
Attitudes to immigration
This sceptical isle
Hospital care
Dismal dispatch from the wards [Britain only]
Secret evidence on drugs policy
Inconvenient truths [Britain only]
Standards in schools
An unacceptable term's work [Britain only]
Bagehot
The tiger under the table

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■International
Islam and Switzerland
The return of the nativists
Match-fixing in football
Own goals

■A special report on climate change and the carbon economy
Getting warmer
Is it worth it?
The green slump
Good policy, and bad
Vampires on a diet
Cap and tirade
Who cares?
A long game
Closing the gaps
What needs to change
Unpacking the problem
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
The restructuring of Rusal
Saving the oligarchs
A Chinese wind-power IPO
Puffed up
Carbon-management software
Heat count
The hunt for shale gas in Europe
Bubbling under
A new boss for General Motors
Fritzkrieg
Vivendi mulls its future
Adieu, Hollywood
Brazil's sugar mergers
Calorific value
Schumpeter
The rise of the hybrid company

■Briefing
The repercussions of Dubai
Dishdashed
Gulf financial centres
Hub thumping
Gulf geopolitics
Come-uppance but little contagion

■Finance and Economics
Banks and information technology
Silo but deadly
Buttonwood
Ahead of the curve
Making insurers safer
Learning lessons
Bank of America's TARP repayment
Ken's last act
Economics focus
Default lines

■Science & Technology
Climate change
What lies beneath
More climate change
Southern bellwether
Efficient aviation
V for victory
Electricity generation
No pinch of salt

■Books & Arts
Books of the Year
Page-turners
Books by Economist writers in 2009
What we wrote

■Obituary
Samak Sundaravej

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Central-bank staff