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

■Leaders
The state and business
Leviathan Inc
Rwanda and other aid darlings
Efficiency versus freedom
Berlusconi on the ropes
Signor Fini, where do you stand?
The church and the law
Calling time on theocracy
Britain's universities and foreign students
Hustling spires

■Letters
On Colombia's president, supermarkets in Berlin, the NHS, palm oil, American health care, Northern Ireland, Ecuador, censorship, cycling, surfing

■Briefing
The fate of Catholic Europe
The void within
Oberammergau's Passion play
Wrestling with the past

■United States
Utah's immigration debate
A better way
Virginia's second district
No safe harbour
Kansas's Senate race
The age of immoderation
Revised growth figures
A deeper hole
Congressional scandals
Double trouble
Gay marriage
O learned judge
Lexington
Build that mosque

■The Americas
Canada's energy industry
Tarred with the same brush
Mexico's indigenous conflicts
Murder in the backwoods
Race and the law in Brazil
The race docket

■Asia
Blighted Pakistan
Swamped, bruised and resentful
Violence in Indian Kashmir
A cyclical problem
Australia's neck-and-neck election
Down underdog bites back
The judiciary in Malaysia
High farce and small progress
Japan's overpowerful bureaucrats
Summertime, and the living is easy
Pollution in China
Raising a stink
Banyan
A beautiful feeling

■Middle East & Africa
Rwanda's election
President Paul Kagame under scrutiny
Lesotho meets China
The Chinese are everywhere
Lebanon and Israel
If only it was just about trees
The United Arab Emirates and BlackBerrys
Forbidden telecoms fruit
Egypt's restive Bedouin
Triangle of trouble

■Europe
Italy's political crisis
A FLI in his ear
Dutch politics
Wilders's things
Greece's reforms
One down, 69 to go
Plagiarism in Romania
Carpathian copying
Hungary's new government
Orban out on a limb
Correction: Duisburg

■Britain
Foreign university students
Will they still come?
Transport funding
Collision course
London's economy
Coming up for air
London house prices
Still buoyant
Bagehot
Frat party

■International
Hair, beards and power
Taking it on the chin
The UN and Israel
Sailing forward


■Business
Japanese firms push into emerging markets
The new frontier for corporate Japan
Online games in China
A hundred million happy geeks
Corporate profitability
Profits, but no jobs
Barnes & Noble
The final chapter?
Face value: Li Shufu
China's lucky man bags Volvo
Schumpeter
The curse of the alien boss

■Briefing
The global revival of industrial policy
Picking winners, saving losers

■Finance and Economics
The recovery in trade
Defying gravity and history
Buttonwood
Dodging defaults
Trading cocoa
Sweet dreams
Finance after the crisis
Out of the bush league
Financial games
Another roll of the dice
Brazil's development bank
Nest egg or serpent's egg?
European banks
Letting the bottom line talk
Economics focus
The Himalayas of hiring

■Science & Technology
Innovation prizes
And the winner is…
Scientific discovery games
Game not over
Metal fatigue in old aircraft
Flying rivets
New marine discoveries
Secrets from the deep
Health and gut bacteria
Hard to stomach

■Books & Arts
Emily Dickinson
Sweeping up the heart
The Scottish Enlightenment
Making Adam Smith
Space exploration
To infinity and beyond
Graham Greene's family
The heart of the matter
The German language
Das Lied der Deutschen

■Obituary
Alex Higgins

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, August averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Commodities