■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Germany
Europe's engine
Sovereign credit-default swaps
Smokescreen
China, America and the yuan
Yuan to stay cool
Agriculture in India
Crop circles
Unconventional gas
This changes everything
Armenians and Turks
Facing up to history

■Letters
On antitrust in Europe, Mitt Romney, baby-boomers, America's states, Vince Cable, Charlie Wilson

■Briefing
Modernising Russia
Another great leap forward?

■United States
Foreign policy
Containing Iran
The president and trade
Go sell
White House tensions
Ballet Rahmbert
The film business
Hollow-wood
Alabama's economy
After cotton
Corruption on the border
Assets on the other side
Unemployment figures
Slow going
University fees
Degrees of pain
Lexington
Barack Obama's abortion drama

■The Americas
Guatemala and organised crime
Reaching the untouchables
Jamaica and organised crime
Seeking Mr Coke
Brazil's quilombos
Affirmative anticipation
Canada's Parliament returns
Seal of approval

■Asia
Indian politics and women
Indian women on the march
China mulls a property tax
An odd sort of tax
Koreans in Japan
Taxation without representation
Economic reform in Malaysia
Out with the new
Rigging Myanmar's election
Belt, braces and army boots
Elections in the Philippines
Vote before the system crashes
Banyan
Not whaling but drowning

■Middle East & Africa
The Israel-Palestine peace talks
More than just a charade?
Israel's disputatious Avigdor Lieberman
Can the coalition hold together?
Iraq's election
The wrangling has only just begun
Stalemate in Zimbabwe
An early election?
Another massacre in Nigeria
An unending cycle
The IMF in Africa
Going green
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■Europe
France's regional elections
The strange unpopularity of Nicolas Sarkozy
Italy's regional elections
Berlusconi's burlesque
The Cyprus talks
A fillip for Talat?
German church scandals
Abuse and counterabuse
Slovakia's disturbing patriotism
Culture creep
Home births in Hungary
Difficult delivery
Charlemagne
Juggling Europe's stars

■Britain
Interview with Nick Clegg
Kingmaker in waiting?
Policing Northern Ireland
The end of the beginning
Bishops, gays and equality
Lords a-leaping
The rise of the handyman
Mr Fixit
Taxing companies
Choose your weapons [Britain only]
Independents for Parliament
Out with the old [Britain only]
Failing schools
For whom the bell tolls [Britain only]
Bagehot
No escape

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■International
People and history
Burying myths, uncovering truth
Turks and Armenians
The cost of reconstruction

■A special report on Germany
Older and wiser
Inside the miracle
The green machine
Much to learn
What a waste
Getting closer
Steady as she goes
A muted normality
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Agribusiness in India
Green shoots
Protectionism and defence procurement
The best plane loses
Who's the boss of Fujitsu?
Boomerang
Xstrata and Glencore
A meeting of mines
Amazon auctions computing power
Clouds under the hammer
Executive pay in America
Cheques and balances
Hard times on pearl farms
South sea bubble
Schumpeter
Skirting the issue

■Briefing
Natural gas
An unconventional glut

■Finance and Economics
Savings and the poor
A better mattress
Microinsurance
Security for shillings
Sovereign debt and the euro
All for one
Buttonwood
Apocalypse, not now
Labour markets
Distemper
Chinese local-government debt
Shell game
Spanish banks
All talk, no walk
MetLife buys Alico
Snoopy sniffs an opportunity
Economics focus
The inflation solution
Correction: Bank administrative costs

■Science & Technology
Metabolic syndrome
A game of consequences?
Analysing the web
Blog mining
Advances in pain relief
Agony column
Connecting to the brain
Thinking about it

■Books & Arts
Scandinavian crime fiction
Inspector Norse
The proliferation business
Unstoppable?
New fiction: Ian McEwan
Mr Sunshine
American power
Empire state
Artists in 19th-century Britain
Outsider
Henri Matisse
Ascent of a master

■Obituary
Emile Fradin

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Employment outlook
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Exchange rates against the dollar