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

■Leaders
The United States and Latin America
Nobody's backyard
Nicolas Sarkozy
The incredible shrinking président
Profits and education
Learning the right lessons
Britain's defence review
Defending the realm
Agriculture
Don't starve thy neighbour
Sri Lanka's constitutional amendment
Eighteenth time unlucky

■Letters
On Brazilian agriculture, energy-efficient lighting, football and Korea, Kashmir, British motorcycles, dirty oil

■Briefing
Sarkozy's France
Je t'aime, moi non plus

■United States
The Hispanicisation of America
The law of large numbers
People-smuggling
No safe passage
Barack Obama's economic proposals
Just don't call it stimulus
Illinois's Senate race
Feeling IL
Mayor Daley to go
The final act of Richard II
Indiana's 9th congressional district
A hill to climb
Competitive cooking
Smoke and mirrors
Lexington
9/11 plus nine

■The Americas
Canada's armed forces
Fighting to keep fighting
Brazil's next government
Under a lucky star
Debt and crime in Jamaica
The end of the beginning
Correction: Ethanol

■Asia
Japan’s leadership challenge
The dark side
A new government in Australia
Victorious, just
Talk of succession in North Korea
Third Kim lucky?
Vulnerable elephants in India
Heritage or threat?
China's relations with Myanmar
Welcome, neighbour
Afghanistan's troubled bank
House of Karzai
Banyan
Going gaga over Tibet

■Middle East & Africa
A power struggle in Iran
The president's awkward friend
Iran's satellite television
Desire can still be requited
Trouble in Bahrain
Shut up the Shias
The end of Ramadan
Yum-yum and clink-clink
Lebanon and Syria
A chameleonic change of hue
Riots in Mozambique
The angry poor
Nigeria's transport
Tame those taxis

■Europe
Turkey's constitutional referendum
Can Erdogan pull it off?
ETA's ceasefire
Not-fighting talk
Irish politics
Much pain, little gain
Austrian banking
Carinthian capers
Italian politics
Splintering at the top
Russian politics
Why Russia needs me
Charlemagne
Rules of the Brussels club

■Britain
The future of British defence
Into the storm
The Coulson affair
Blowback
The state of manufacturing
Captained by industry
Britain's car industry
Start your engines
Labour in London
The undead red
Voters' priorities
If it ain't broke…
Bagehot
Tabloid rule
Correction: Labour

■International
Wheat prices
Field events
Philanthropy
George Soros and Human Rights Watch
Valuing education
Critical thinking

■A special report on Latin America
So near and yet so far
Two centuries of hopes and fears
It's only natural
Efficiency drive
The jet set
Societies on the move
The dark side
Democracy, Latino-style
A Latin American decade?
Sources and acknowledgments
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■Business
For-profit higher education
Schools of hard knocks
BP and the Gulf disaster
The case for the defence
Consultancy firms
Free thinking
Oracle versus Hewlett-Packard
A case of Hurd labour
Online shopping
Selling becomes sociable
Retailing in Japan
Shopaholics and shopaphobes
Schumpeter
The will to power

■Briefing
Siemens
A giant awakens

■Finance and Economics
Barclays' new boss
Jewel gets crown
HSBC's top team
Yes minister, minister
Lehman, two years on
Mission unaccomplished
Buttonwood
The cycle lane
Ireland's public finances
Bank rupture
Microfinance for students
Making the grade
Finance after the crisis: Aviva
Taking cover
Economics focus
Automatic reaction

■Science & Technology
Bacteria and climate change
Invisible carbon pumps
Modelling traffic flows
Jam today
Dancing and sexual selection
Lord of the dance
Faster helicopters
More rotors, more speed

■Books & Arts
The art market
Hands up for Hirst
Understanding the universe
Order of creation
American workers
Different drummer
New fiction
Ranting and raving

■Obituary
Colin Tennant and Vladimir Raitz

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