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

■Leaders
Markets
Bubble warning
Canada's Parliament
Harper goes prorogue
Iran
Time for tougher sanctions
Hispanics in America
Reshaping politics
Labels and categories
A menagerie of monikers

■Letters
On immigration, claret, Canada, rice, e-readers, zombies, language

■Briefing
Iran and its region
A supreme leader at bay
Israel and Iran
The gathering storm

■United States
Latinos and American politics
Power in numbers
Barack Obama and terrorism
Another war president, after all
Trouble for the Democrats
Chicken run
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
That 1930s show
Aviation and the South
Advantage Dixie
American labour law
Quorum quibbles
The Trans-Texas Corridor
Miles to go
Restoring Cleveland
The hopeful laundry
Lexington
Integrated, but irked

■The Americas
Canada without Parliament
Halted in mid-debate
Organised crime in Mexico
Outsmarted by Sinaloa
A Mexican cult
Death in holy orders
Lula and the generals
Don't look back
Argentina's bank grab
The reserves, or your job

■Asia
Afghanistan's political mess
Parliamentary pitfalls
Another atrocity in Pakistan
Japan's finance minister resigns
Bad blood
Water pricing in China
Bottling it
The China-ASEAN free-trade agreement
Ajar for business
Private armies in the Philippines
Guns and goons
Kyrgyzstan's battered press
Hard landing
Banyan
From the charm to the offensive

■Middle East & Africa
Somalia's pirates
A long war of the waters
Somalia's World Cup singer
Let my people stay
Mixing sexes in Saudi Arabia
Not so terrible after all?
Polygamy in South Africa
A president who promotes tradition
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■Europe
“Eastern Europe”
Wrongly labelled
Bulgaria's new leadership
Foot in mouth
Icelandic finance
Is it a blizzard?
Goats in the Netherlands
Caprine contagion
The future of Catalonia
Of bulls and ballots
Italian justice
Shameful honour
Charlemagne
Old Spanish practices

■Britain
The prospects for recovery
Clambering out of the hole
The Conservative campaign begins
Faulty first steps
The Royal Society
The establishment of science
Green jobs
Back to the City [Britain only]
University-entrance requirements
Shoot for the stars [Britain only]
Travel-payment woes
E-Clear as mud [Britain only]
Bagehot
Midwinter madness

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■International
Innovation in global health
A spoonful of ingenuity
Universities and Islam
Hearts, minds and Mecca

■Business
Nokia tries to reinvent itself
Bears at the door
Hollywood and the internet
Coming soon
America's census and business
A count that counts
Japan Airlines' clouded future
On a wing and a rumour
Novartis's bid for Alcon
In the eye
Germany's solar subsidies
Fed up
The crowded aluminium business
Hard metal
Schumpeter
Making a success of failure

■Briefing
Asset markets
The danger of the bounce
Correction: Women in the workforce

■Finance and Economics
China's export prospects
Fear of the dragon
Buttonwood
Voting away your debts
Alternative mutual funds
The feeling is mutual
The jobs market for economists
Applied thinking
American Express
Charge!
Hong Kong as a financial centre
Flagrant harbour
Economics focus
Worth a hill of soyabeans

■Science & Technology
Climate change
No hiding place?
Planet hunting
Looking for life in the shadows
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Seconds out
Influenza and wildlife
Mix and match

■Books & Arts
Research universities
Powerhouses
Henry Luce
American dreamer
18th-century cello music
Curves and waves
Albert Camus, 50 years on
Prince of the absurd
Post-American power
Short and thin
New film
Flying high

■Obituary
Gus Dur

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