■The world this week
The world this week
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■Leaders
Women and work
We did it!
Colombia's presidential non-campaign
Time to enter history
Iran in turmoil
The beginning of the end?
Climate change
Planet B
Japan's two lost decades
An end to the Japanese lesson

■Letters
On carbon taxes, public-sector workers, Britain, talent, violins

■Briefing
Waziristan
The last frontier
Emerging markets and recession
Counting their blessings

■United States
America, al-Qaeda and home-made bombs
From shoes to soft drinks to underpants
House prices and mobility
Off the road
Asian carp advance on Chicago
The invaders
Tourism in Hawaii
Hoping for an Obama effect
The politics of rum
Sir Henry's legacy
Health reform
The home stretch

■The Americas
Álvaro Uribe's Colombia
Not yet the promised land
Reforming Canada's Senate
Adapt or die

■Asia
Harsh justice in China
Don't mess with us
Taiwan and China
Strait talking
Laotian Hmong refugees in Thailand
Shown the door
Sri Lanka's displaced Tamils
A market-based solution
Pakistan's embattled president
Peccavi

■Middle East & Africa
Iran's turmoil
Growing signs of desperation
Yemen's multiple wars
A growing worry for the West
Ghana and its oil
Dangerously hopeful
East Africa's common market
It really may happen
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■Europe
Germany's fractious government
Angela Merkel's wobbly restart
Turkey and its generals
These cursed plots
The Balkans and the European Union
Lightening gloom?
An autonomous Vojvodina
Exit strategy

■Britain
The election campaign
Under starter's orders
The economy and the election
The figures that will count
Extraditions to Poland
Wanted, for chicken rustling
English libel law
Taking away the welcome mat

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■International
Climate change after Copenhagen
China's thing about numbers
Agriculture and climate change
Why farms may be the new forests

■Business
Government and business in France
Dirigisme de rigueur
Pay-TV in emerging markets
Finding El Dorado
Taser diversifies its arsenal
Proto-RoboCop
Clean technology after Copenhagen
Waiting for a green light
KEPCO wins a nuclear contract
Atomic dawn
Schumpeter
Womenomics

■Briefing
Women in the workforce
Female power
Mobile-phone culture
The Apparatgeist calls

■Finance and Economics
Deflation in Japan
To lose one decade may be misfortune...
Buttonwood
Paying the price
Global house prices
Ratio rentals
Economics focus
New-year irresolution

■Science & Technology
Renewable energy
The seat of power
New sources of rubber
Blow out
Flood defences
Dambusterbusters
Genetics
Monogamouse

■Books & Arts
A history of the world in 100 objects
Creative impulses
The Berlin airlift
Flying coal
Water
Through the aqueous humour
Biography
Another field

■Obituary
Oral Roberts

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP growth forecasts, 2010, %
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Mergers and acquisitions