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

■Leaders
The internet
The web's new walls
Pakistan's cricket scandal
Crossing the boundary
South Africa's politics
Zuma's two bad calls
Global economic policy
Monetary illusions
Japan
Self-destruction

■Letters
On industrial policy, Lexington, Australian elections, Club Med, legalising drugs, Jews and Muslims, punks

■Briefing
Game conservation in Africa
Horns, claws and the bottom line

■United States
The Iraq war
Mission truncated
The Bush tax cuts
A slight reprieve?
Ohio's 1st congressional district
In black and white
The salmonella outbreak
Un oeuf is enough
Savannah's port
A man, a plan, a canal
Atlantic City
A struggling city by the sea
Lexington
The charge of the Brat Pack

■The Americas
Energy in Brazil
Ethanol's mid-life crisis
Mexico's ruling party
The new old guard

■Asia
India's disappointing government
Much less than promised
Parliamentary polls in Afghanistan
Bloody democracy
China and North Korea
Greetings, comrades
Football and Korean reunification
Dreaming of 2022
Vietnam's economy
Plus one country
Nalanda university
Ivory pagodas
Banyan
Afloat on a Chinese tide

■Middle East & Africa
Middle East peace talks
Back to the table
Maids in the Middle East
Little better than slavery
Rwanda's meddling in Congo
Revisiting the killing fields
South African politics
With friends like these

■Europe
Germany's energy policy
Nuclear power? Um, maybe
The French opposition
Maybe he Strauss-Kahn't
Europe's Roma
Hard travelling
Charlemagne
Long live the Karlings
Correction: Czechoslovakia

■Britain
Catholics in Britain
The fruits of adversity
State schools and selection
The religious and the rational
The Cambridge cluster
University challenge
Voting reform
The new mapmakers
Mackerel wars
Overfished and over there
Billingsgate fish market
Economies of scale
Bagehot
Lessons from 35,000 feet

■International
E-communication and society
A cyber-house divided
Technology and protest
A town crier in the global village

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Memory upgrade
Monitor
An online medic
Monitor
Powering up
Monitor
A suit that can sing and hear
Monitor
Gently does it
Monitor
Ruses to cut printing costs
Monitor
Correct me if I'm wrong...
Monitor
Fast-track testing
Monitor
Schrödinger's cat and mouse
Monitor
Putting your money where your mouse is
Mining social networks
Untangling the social web
Inside story
Hot rocks and high hopes
Rewiring nerves
How to rewire the nervous system
Energy in the developing world
Power to the people
Brain scan
The virtual curmudgeon
Offer to readers

■Business
Fake drugs
Poison pills
Intellectual-property battles
Patent lather
Mobile internet in emerging markets
The next billion geeks
Online television
Hogging the remote
Car-sharing
Wheels when you need them
Petrobras
Over a barrel
Burger King
Whopper to go
A minimum wage for Hong Kong
So much for red in tooth and claw
Schumpeter
Declining by degree
Correction: Accounting rules

■Briefing
The future of the internet
A virtual counter-revolution

■Finance and Economics
The world economy
The odd decouple
Sovereign debt
Wiggle room
Carbon markets
The smoking greenhouse gun
Buttonwood
Divvying up returns
Rare earths
Digging in
Private equity
Candover and out
Finance after the crisis: Deutsche Bank
A tamer casino
Economics focus
War footing

■Science & Technology
The nature of the universe
Ye cannae change the laws of physics
Emerging infections
No good deed goes unpunished
Climate-change assessment
Must try harder
Mental stimulation and dementia
Brain gain

■Books & Arts
Climate change
The ways of a warmer world
Walking in Africa
In the steps of the master
Myanmar's Than Shwe
A tyrant nobody knows
New thriller
Oily conspiracies
Social history
Home comforts
Ife sculpture
Magnificent mysteries
Correction: King George II

■Obituary
Mont Liggins

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Manufacturing activity
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global foreign-exchange market