■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
The war on baby girls
Gendercide
Ashcroft and the Tories
Friends like these
Dealing with budget deficits
Who pays the bill?
Iraq's election
Don't wash your hands of it
Indonesia's embattled reformers
Time to show them what you're made of

■Letters
On Ukraine, health care, financial risk, Texas, the euro, computers

■Briefing
Iraq's election
No promised land at the end of all this

■United States
New York's troubled politicians
The fall of the Harlem Clubhouse
Health-care reform
The die is cast
California's elections
The other Brown
The New Orleans police
A bad shoot
Guns and the law
Old McDonald hadn't an arm
The Texas governor's race
Romping home
Almond pollination in California
Vitamin Bee
Lexington
Angry white men

■The Americas
Chile's earthquake
Counting the cost
Rebuilding Haiti
Island in the sun
Cuba and the United States
Honeymoon cancelled
After Canada's Olympics
Golden glow
Presidential politics in Colombia
After Uribe

■Asia
Indonesia's parliamentary showdown
Unchaining the reformers
India's Muslims and job quotas
The call to poll
The feud in South Korea's ruling party
Feud for thought
Thaksin Shinawatra
Divided loyalties
Vietnam's economy
The Tet effect
Tajikistan's flawed election
Change you can't believe in
Banyan
The Chinese are coming

■Middle East & Africa
Jerusalem
A city that should be shared
Trouble in Algeria
The president and the police
Egypt's new contender
A tantalising return
Progress and repression in Rwanda
Divisionists beware
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■Europe
Greece's fiscal crisis
Now comes the pain
The Icesave referendum
No, thanks
Energy security in Europe
Central questions
Spain and ETA
Gone fishing
Silvio Berlusconi and the courts
Impunity time
The Balkans and international justice
Stand and deliver
Charlemagne
Europe's hypochondriacs
Correction: Dutch politics

■Britain
Politics and the pound
Sterling throws a wobbly
Lord Ashcroft's tax status
Out of the closet
Cutting the BBC
No surrender
Football finance
Colour revolution [Britain only]
Scottish politics
Slouching towards Westminster [Britain only]
Campaigning in Perth
The weakest link? [Britain only]
Bagehot
Rope-a-dope

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■International
Gendercide
The worldwide war on baby girls
Distorted sex ratios in India
Haryana's lonely bachelors

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
The many voices of the web
Monitor
Flat pack
Monitor
Rolling out the changes
Monitor
Smarting from the wind
Monitor
Crash, bang, cushion
Monitor
Hey little hen
Monitor
The bigger picture
Monitor
Well received
Monitor
Bright sparks
Monitor
The net generation, unplugged
Rational consumer
Snapping a good camera
Anti-IED technologies
Bombs away
Inside story
Plumbing the depths
Quantum dots
A quantum leap for lighting
Heat scavenging
Stealing the heat
Brain scan
A step in the right direction
Offer to readers

■Business
The spread of counterfeiting
Knock-offs catch on
Telecom Italia
Call waiting
Mexico's competition policy
Busting the cartels
Supply chains in China
Core and periphery
GM offers to invest more in Opel
Paying up
Location-based services on mobile phones
Follow me
Schumpeter
The trouble with tandems

■Briefing
Dealing with fiscal deficits
Sharing the pain

■Finance and Economics
Prudential buys AIA
Grand Pru
The Federal Reserve
Back from the Fed
Sovereign-debt ratings
The grim rater
Buttonwood
Race to the bottom
Multilateral development banks
Cap in hand
Financial inclusion
A FAB idea
Economics focus
On deaf ears

■Science & Technology
Monitoring greenhouse gases
Highs and lows
Weather forecasting
Flaky science
Sexual selection
Horny ladies
Palaeontology
Do the locomotion
Correction: Alien life

■Books & Arts
The bloody age of Vyacheslav Molotov
Bullying bibliophile
British politics
Ties that bind
Mothers in China
Sobs on the night breeze
John Browne's memoirs
Oil painting
A journalist in the Middle East
Golden notebook
White Africans on the screen
A tribe in trouble

■Obituary
Obituary
Michael Foot

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