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

■Leaders
American power
After Iraq
The Australian election
When the hat doesn't fit
Brazil's agricultural miracle
How to feed the world
Joblessness in America
A stickier problem
Regulating finance
Killing them softly

■Letters
On British universities, Myanmar, bubbles, American railroads, Brussels, Japanese society, Proposition 8

■Briefing
The cost of weapons
Defence spending in a time of austerity

■United States
Unemployment and the mid-terms
To help or not to help
The latest primaries
Squandered millions
New Orleans five years after Katrina
Chins up, hopes high
Housing sales
Grinding to a halt
Managing the West’s forests
For fun and profit
Lexington
The president and the peace process

■The Americas
Business and politics in Cuba
Potbelly and rumbling stomachs
Gender politics in Mexico City
Pink cabs rev up
Canada's Liberal leader
Trial by barbecue
A mining miracle

■Asia
Australia's dead-heat election
Hung, drawn, now courting
Japan's dysfunctional politics
Ichiro Ozawa strikes back
The police in the Philippines
Manila showdown
The floods in Pakistan
Washed up
Nepal's perilous politics
Summer reruns
Talking about reform in China
Change you can believe in?
Jam tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow
Banyan
Vale of tears

■Middle East & Africa
Iraq's uncertain future
The reckoning
Egypt's presidential hopeful
Of course I don't want to be president
Iran's nuclear programme
Game resumed
South Africa's strikes
After the party…
Ethiopia's capital city
Make it prettier and cheaper

■Europe
French politics resumes
Tough-guy Sarko
Spanish politics
Losing his grip
Italy's highway code
Roads to ruin
Oil in Greenland
Black stuff in a green land
Drugs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
High contrast
Skopje
A Macedonian makeover

■Britain
Scotland's budget
Dismantling the welfare state
The Claudy killings
Not peace but a sword
Micro-distillers
Brimming over
Raising the state-pension age
When I'm 66
Hearty holidays
The call of the wild
Bagehot
Britain's high-minded government

■International
UNESCO's world heritage sites
A danger list in danger
UNESCO and Georgia
Rising defiantly from the ruins
Correction: Bald Hills wind park

■Business
High-speed rail in Europe
Trouble ahead
Disney's schools in China
Middle Kingdom meets Magic Kingdom
Mergers and acquisitions
Waiting for a wave
Location-based social networks
Where are you?
Israeli entrepreneurs
MBAs are for wusses
South Korea's thirst for oil
KNOC comes knocking
The revival of Alfa Romeo
Another chance for Alfa
Schumpeter
The innovation machine

■Briefing
Brazilian agriculture
The miracle of the cerrado

■Finance and Economics
Hedge funds
Bigger, safer but duller
ShoreBank
Small enough to fail
HSBC and Nedbank
Mutual attraction
Bank capital
Foundations of jelly
Emerging-market debt
A run for your money
European banks
A glow from the east
Finance after the crisis: Pactual
The origins of a new species
Economics focus
Bad circulation

■Science & Technology
Scientific misconduct
Monkey business?
Energy conservation
Not such a bright idea
Psychology
Faith and faithfulness
Obesity
Drink till you drop

■Books & Arts
New fiction
The stuff of life
A biography of Simon Wiesenthal
The pursuit of evil
Black migration in America
From hominy grits to cold shoulder
New theatre
Scottish tragedy as burlesque
Philanthropy
Do-gooders in 1790s London
Japanese cartoons
The professor to the rescue

■Obituary
Bill Millin
Piping in D-Day

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Visa-free travel
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Steel production