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

■Leaders
Synthetic biology
And man made life
The euro-zone crisis
Europe's three great delusions
Thailand in flames
The battle of Bangkok
Water
The world's most valuable stuff
Facebook, Google and privacy
Dicing with data

■Letters
On Montenegro, Indonesia, Canada, Arizona, Britain's
electoral system, dams, rioting

■Briefing
Thailand's riots
A polity imploding

■United States
Mid-term primaries
Why Republicans should worry
California's budget crisis
Greece is the word
Health care
A second opinion
Free speech in the states
Liberty, privacy and some bottles of beer
Repairing America's roads
It tolls for thee
Jews in the South
Shalom, y'all
The Great Lakes' water
Liquid gold
Lexington
The crushing of Arlen Specter
Correction: Job growth

■The Americas
Brazil's booming economy
Flying too high for safety
Mexico and the United States
An unappetising menu
Haiti's economy
A quick stimulus

■Asia
A guilty verdict for North Korea
Their number is up
A political slush fund in Japan
If you pay more than peanuts
By-elections in Hong Kong
Protest vote
Counter-terrorism in Indonesia
Dispense with the pieties
Night raids on militants in Afghanistan
Thinking the worst
Blockade of a north-eastern Indian state
Isolation ward
Sri Lanka's powerful president
Putting the raj in Rajapaksa
“The Sri Lanka option”
Friends like these
Banyan
In the strongman's shadow

■Middle East & Africa
A prospect of Palestine
Can Palestinians peacefully build a state?
Iraq's tribes
As potent as ever
Ethiopia's elections
Five more years
Iranian cartoons
A thousand words
Liberia's feisty president
Another round for Africa's Iron Lady

■Europe
Russia, NATO and Europe
Marching through Red Square
The Czech election
A song by Marta
Slovakia's election
Another direction
French public finances
Too timid by half
Spain's budget cuts
Zapatero's cuts
Turkey and the PKK
A never-ending fight
Charlemagne
Perfidious Albion again
Corrections: Calabria and North Rhine-Westphalia

■Britain
Cutting the fiscal deficit
The workout begins
Reforming fiscal forecasts
The new scorekeeper
British Airways
Sackcloth and ashes
Liberty versus security
Of hawks and doves
Scottish politics
The blame game
University tuition fees
Lurking in the long grass
The 2018 World Cup
Own goal
Bagehot
New politics, new opposition
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■International
Brazil, Turkey and Iran
Not just any deal will do
Celebrity philanthropy
Making one key-stroke too many
Diasporas
A new sort of togetherness

■A special report on water
For want of a drink
Enough is not enough
Business begins to stir
Every drop counts
Making farmers matter
China's peasants look to the skies
The ups and downs of dams
Trade and conserve
To the last drop
A glass half empty
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Privacy and the internet
Lives of others
Suing companies
On top of a wave
The recovery of General Motors
The medicine starts to work
Business crime in China
Guilty of something
Carrefour in India
A wholesale invasion
Japan's drug firms on the move
A homespun elixir
Brazilian telecoms
Get off the line
Schumpeter
Overstretched

■Briefing
Artificial lifeforms
Genesis redux

■Finance and Economics
Europe's government-bond markets
That sinking feeling
The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive
The wrong targets
Prudential and AIA
Judgment day
Private equity
Crazy little thing called leverage
Hedge funds
Man to Goliath
Central banks under scrutiny (1)
After the fall
Central banks under scrutiny (2)
Prometheus bound
Chinese economic data
Reading China's palm
Economics focus
Satchel, uniform, bonus

■Science & Technology
The Gulf oil spill
What lies beneath
Cheese-powered fuel cells
The whey to greener electricity
Masculine traits
To get the girl

■Books & Arts
20th-century history
The accidental heirloom
Israel and South Africa
Cold minds, warm hearts
Fingers through history
Digital examination
War in Afghanistan
What is it good for?
The mystery of kindness
Selflessness of strangers
The Forbidden City
Sleeping beauty

■Obituary
Lena Horne

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
CEO turnover rate
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Platinum and palladium