■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
The threat from the internet
Cyberwar
Financial reform in America
A decent start
China and Taiwan
Know your customer
The return of wheat rust
The disease eating away our daily bread
Global economic policy
Austerity alarm
Bad language
Against fairness

■Letters
On Pakistan, the Republican Party, the Los Angeles Times, California v Texas

■Briefing
Cyberwar
War in the fifth domain

■United States
Guns and the Supreme Court
The uninfringed
Espionage
Spies like us
China policy
Yuanimpressed
The “mini-stimulus”
A prophet in his own house
South Carolina
Wacky races
Louisiana's economy
Sue, baby, sue
Biofuels under scrutiny
The age of ethanol
Lexington
USS Kagan prepares to set sail

■The Americas
Brazil's presidential campaign
In Lula's footsteps

■Asia
China and Taiwan
The ties that bind?
Japan's sumo scandal
Caught off-balance
The Philippines changes president
Sic transit Gloria
Bangladesh and war crimes
Blighted at birth
A referendum in Kyrgyzstan
Better than feared
Pakistan's role in Afghanistan
Ganging up on India
Banyan
Asia's alarming cities

■Middle East & Africa
The religious right in east Africa
Slain by the spirit
Somaliland's elections
Not so failing
Iraq's economy
Why business is still in the dumps
Jerusalem's settlements
Permission granted
A power struggle in Iran
University challengers

■Europe
German politics
Angela Merkel rebuked
The Bettencourt affair in France
Sarkozy’s cosmetic problem
Hungarian politics
Orban flexes his muscle
Devolution in Spain
A nationality, not a nation
The Greek economy
Protesting, wearily
Church and state in Russia
Art under arrest
Charlemagne
Before the altar of Europe

■Britain
Poverty in austerity
Still with us
The budget wars
Once more unto the breach
Criminal-justice reform
The rattling of keys
Outsourcing torture
Back in court
Assisted suicide
Debating death
Scottish independence
One step back
Scottish birds
Feathered enemies
Bagehot
The time of the three kings
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■International
Wheat rust and world farming
Rust in the bread basket
Sanctions on Iran
Anything to declare?

■Business
Oil companies' dash for gas
Vapour trails
Biotechnology
Chemistry goes green
Spain v Portugal
Overruled
A management cult in Japan
Drucker in the dug-out
Corporate crime
Not guilty?
Sportswear
The swoosh heard around the world
Charging for content
Media’s two tribes
Schumpeter
Two cheers for Sarbanes-Oxley

■Briefing
Financial regulation
Not all on the same page

■Finance and Economics
Companies' cash piles
Show us the money
Klaus Regling
Chief bail-out officer
China and Taiwan
Branching in
Joe Cassano at the FCIC
No ordinary Joe
Iron-ore derivatives
Fixed ore floating
Buttonwood
What goes up
Economics focus
The click and the dead
Clarification: The euro zone’s special purpose vehicle

■Science & Technology
Disease and intelligence
Mens sana in corpore sano
Ocean acidification
The other carbon-dioxide problem
The genetics of ageing
Methuselah decoded

■Books & Arts
Lebanon
Garden of thorns
The politics of nudity
Flashing flesh
Caravaggio
Dial M for murder
Joys of craftsmanship
Handy work
The S&L crisis
Wisdom of experience
New York's 1939 World's Fair
All's fair in love and war
Fakes and mistakes
Who didn't do it?

■Obituary
Robert Byrd

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Global mergers and acquisitions
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
The world's biggest banks