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

■Leaders
World economy
The rising power of the Chinese worker
Anti-poverty programmes
Give the poor money
Afghanistan
Don't go back
America's climate policy
Capped
European banks
More stress ahead

■Letters
On speculation, free trade, Indian infrastructure, wheat rust, cyber-security, mental health, car insurance, General McChrystal

■Briefing
Brazil's Bolsa Família
How to get children out of jobs and into school

■United States
Climate-change policy
Let it be
The race for Pennsylvania's 7th district
Anxiety amid plenty
Closing down Guantánamo
Out of court
Mandatory sentencing in California
Cooley's law
Cheerleading in court
Go Team!
Lexington
Arizona, rogue state

■The Americas
Haiti's earthquake
Frustration sets in
Brazil's presidential campaign
Vice squad
Mexico's environment
A breath of fresh air

■Asia
America, Afghanistan and Pakistan
Kayani's gambit
Australia's election
Abbott's angst
Thailand's state of emergency
Politics as unusual
Floods in China
Gushing
Scandal in Gujarat
Murder most common
Cambodia's war-crimes trial
Scarred, not healed
Film-makers and Cambodia
Enemies of the People
Strategic jousting between China and America
Testing the waters

■Middle East & Africa
Kenya's constitutional referendum
A chance to improve how Kenya is run
South Africa's opposition
Taking on the behemoth
Somalia and the African Union
Be beefier
Nigeria's art collectors
A nice new market
Human rights in Tunisia
No to opposition
Morocco's evangelical Christians
Stop preaching or get out
Iran's cross merchants
The bazaar strikes back
Correction: Uganda

■Europe
Spanish politics
Zapatero's balancing act
Bullfighting in Catalonia
The land of the ban
Germany's fatal Love Parade
Death in Duisburg
NATO and Russia
Trust, but make military plans
Kosovo and Serbia
Jubilant Kosovo, chastened Serbia
Russia's heatwave
A hazy shade of summer
Charlemagne
Bored by Brussels

■Britain
The Conservative-Liberal government
Sure start
Think-tanks
Send for the wonks
Energy policy
Efficiency drive
Police reform
Voting blue
Bank lending
Never-ending story
Animal testing
Tweaking the experiments
Bagehot
Don't mess with British bins
Public policy editor
Correction: Maersk Line

■International
Law and globalisation
Not entirely free, your honour

■Business
BP and golden parachutes
The wages of failure
Pardons for corporate criminals in South Korea
Pardon me?
Indian textiles
Stitched up
Television in Germany
The last redoubt
Information technology in transition
The end of Wintel
Schumpeter
A post-crisis case study

■Briefing
China's labour market
The next China

■Finance and Economics
European banks
Judgment daze
Spain's cajas
Thinking outside the box
SKS comes to market
Microfight
Buttonwood
Paying the price
Cerberus
Out of the doghouse?
Finance after the crisis
Vigilante on the move
Economics focus
A wealth of data
Correction: Big Mac index

■Science & Technology
Wealth, poverty and compassion
The rich are different from you and me
Particle physics
And they're off
Betting on science
Odd and ends
Dinosaurs and mammals
Velocisnack

■Books & Arts
Scotland and Sir Walter Scott
Sham country, but not sham bard
Growing up in the Middle East
Tomorrow, when apricots come
Learning about maths
Squaring a circle
The human genome project
Ignition sequence commence
Contemporary photography from Pakistan
Mirror images
Bicycling
Double whammy

■Obituary
Steve Schneider

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Online job vacancies
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Biggest transnational companies