■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
American politics after health reform
Now what?
The British economy
Out of the ruins
Iraq's elections
Give everyone a voice
Financial regulation
Shine a light
France's beleaguered president
Sarko under the cosh

■Letters
On gendercide, natural gas, IEDs, Jerusalem, Argentina, fixing things, banks

■Briefing
The British economy
The pain to come

■United States
Health reform in America
Signed, sealed, delivered
Health care and the mid-terms
Miracle or monstrosity?
Music festivals
The south by south-west sound
Property prices
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Detroit's future
Thinking about shrinking
Lexington
From hope to change

■The Americas
Mexico, the United States and drug gangs
Turning to the gringos for help
Ecuador and financial crime
The Andean laundry
Latin America's unproductive economies
Service break
Cuba's food shortages
Hungry for change

■Asia
Malaysian politics
Najib v Anwar
Tiananmen Square's buildings
Don't tell anyone
Australian politics
Opening shots
Japanese politics
Self-immolation thwarted
Democracy in Afghanistan
Wise council
Girija Prasad Koirala
Democrat, dynast and dealmaker
Banyan
A matter of life and death

■Middle East & Africa
Israel, America and the world
A wall of suspicion
Iraq's election
Wheels within wheels
Arab women's rights
Some say they don't want them
Ethiopia's elections
Forget about democracy
West Africa's regional club
Quietly impressive
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■Europe
France's regional elections
The people say “Non!”
Italy's elections and the media
Blacked out
The crisis in Greece
Sound and fury
Spain's economic woes
The mañana syndrome
Turkey and Africa
Ottoman dreaming
Constitutional change in Turkey
Reform or die
Charlemagne
The myth of the periphery

■Britain
Class and politics
The misinterpreted middle
Libel-law reform
Fairer but still costly
Taxing banks
There will be blood
The budget at a glance
Cram sheet
The campaign in Buckingham
A well-mannered revolution? [Britain only]
Local politics in Glasgow
Heartland attack [Britain only]
Political lobbying
The great stink [Britain only]
Bagehot
With a whimper

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■International
University rankings
Leagues apart
Prenuptial agreements
For poorer

■Business
Pepsi gets a makeover
Taking the challenge
The strikes at British Airways
Maintaining altitude
Cricket booms in India
A big hit
Yukos haunts Rosneft
A spectre of litigation
Outsourcing to Africa
The world economy calls
America's biofuel muddle
Coming up empty
Video games in the recession
Still playing
Schumpeter
The health-care squeeze

■Briefing
Foreign takeovers in Britain
Small island for sale

■Finance and Economics
Securitisation
Earthbound
Greece's bail-out maths
Safety not
Rising prices in Asia
A weight on their shoulders
Life insurance in Asia
Age concern
Dubai's debts
Finding the ripcord
Carbon markets
The wrong sort of recycling
The FSA gets tough
From light touch to heavy brigade
Economics focus
Tricky Dick and the dollar
Marjorie Deane internship

■Science & Technology
A new species of human
The old man of the mountain
The rise of the dinosaurs
Easy come, easy go
Archaeology and polynomial texture mapping
Shining a light on the past
Trade in endangered species
Fishy business

■Books & Arts
Saudi Arabia
The struggle for its soul
Jewish philanthropy
Give it all you got
New American fiction
Give or give up
William Shakespeare
Hero or hoax
The rise and fall of Carthage
Rival to Rome
Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra
An ode to joy

■Obituary
Doris Haddock

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Asylum-seekers
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Office rents