■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
The Obama presidency, one year on
Time to get tough
The earthquake in Haiti
Hell on earth
China's battered image
Bears in a China shop
Tony Blair and Britain's Iraq inquiry
Weapons inspection
America and Japan
Okinaw-or-neva

■Letters
On Canada, libel law, women in the workforce, Gordon Brown, dirt, politeness

■Briefing
Barack Obama's first year
Reality bites
Correction: Emerging markets

■United States
Health reform and Congress
It hasn't been pretty
The economy
The trap
Purple Colorado
Rocky mountain coming down
Gay marriage
Courtroom drama
Michigan
The dark ages
Food and poverty
The Big Apple is hungry
Lexington
Bin Laden's legacy

■The Americas
Haiti's earthquake
Catastrophe in the Caribbean
Venezuela's devaluation
The weakening of the “strong bolívar”
Ecuador's president
Smile turns to frown

■Asia
Google and China
Flowers for a funeral
Chinese missile defence
Anything you can do
The Taliban
Two heads, same body
America's security treaty with Japan
The new battle of Okinawa
Malaysia's burning churches
In God's name?
Banyan
Mad, bad and dangerous to know

■Middle East & Africa
Sudan's coming elections
How did it come to this?
Nigeria's ailing president
Is he a goner?
South Africa's education system
No one gets prizes
Justice in the United Arab Emirates
What a muddle
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■Europe
France's ban on the burqa
The war of French dressing
Immigration in Italy
Southern misery
Ukraine's presidential election
Oranges and lemons
The European Commission
Under scrutiny
Croatia's presidential election
Enter a lawyer-composer
Charlemagne
Allons, citoyens de l'Europe
Correction: Eastern Europe

■Britain
Northern Ireland
All still to play for
The Iraq-war inquiry
Campbell's soup
Fighting terrorism
Stop stop and search
A trial without a jury
Peerless
Labour's new industrial policy
White heat redux [Britain only]
Offshore wind power
Oil rigs to whirligigs [Britain only]
Scottish power
Crossed wires [Britain only]
Bagehot
The unappetising big choice

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■International
Democracy's decline
Crying for freedom

■Business
Public relations in the recession
Good news
Pills get smart
Potential encapsulated
A railway bonanza in China
Trouble down the track
France and the internet
Helicopters at the ready
The return of the mainframe
Back in fashion
Australia's ailing education business
Under attack
Face value
Indonesia's Teflon tycoon
Schumpeter
Driven to distraction

■Briefing
China's economy
Not just another fake

■Finance and Economics
America's bail-out bill
Cheap as chips?
American banks
Embarrassment of riches
Designing rewards
Carrots dressed as sticks
Buttonwood
Floating all boats
Bahrain's labour market
Bridging the gulf
The price of salt
Salt sellers
Central banks under fire
Policy punchbags
Economics focus
Digging out of debt

■Science & Technology
Stem cells in China
Wild East or scientific feast?
Cancer and stem cells
A strand apart
Electromagnetic manufacturing
It's a knockout
Susan Greenfield
The end of an institution?

■Books & Arts
The 2008 presidential campaign
Ringing the changes
Detroit's blues
Roadkill
Road-building
Ties that bind
Communist cars
Junk box
Cutting down on errors
Ticking off
New fiction
Celebration of the vanities

■Obituary
Tsutomu Yamaguchi

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Commodities
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Commercial-liability insurance