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

■Leaders
America's economy
Are we there yet?
Europe's Romanies
Hot meals for hard cases
Finance
Taming the banks
Swedish politics
The strange death of social-democratic Sweden
Pakistan's floods
A ruined country
Britain's Labour Party
First among equals

■Letters
On American forces, humanitarian aid, China v India, family-owned businesses, the SNP, Latvia, the RAF, holidays

■Briefing
Pakistan
After the deluge

■United States
Primary elections
The tea-partiers march on
The Democratic primary in Washington, DC
Out on his ear
Tennessee's 8th district
Serving the Lord
The Faith and Freedom Coalition
Ralph's way
Asset-leasing in Chicago
The big sell
Water wars in the south-east
Chattahoochee blues
The tax debate
Someone will pay
Lexington
The wrong target

■The Americas
Land and violence in Colombia
This land is our land
Reform in Cuba
Towards a mixed economy
Venezuela's economy
Disappearing dollars
Mexico's bicentennial fiesta
A night to remember, and to forget
Correction: Suriname

■Asia
Japanese politics
Now for the Bionic Kan
China and Japan
Getting their goat
Aid to North Korea
After the storm
Nepal, China and India
Rivals on the roof of the world
Thailand
Bouncing briefly back
Kashmir
India's intifada
Banyan
An exercise in fertility

■Middle East & Africa
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Still talking, at least
Palestinians and the talks
Suspicion prevails
Somalia and the United States
What's to be done?
The sorry state of Swaziland
A boiling pot

■Europe
The Swedish election
Moderate and happy
Turkey's referendum
Erdogan wins again
The Ukrainian government
Viktor ludorum
Moscow's embattled mayor
Luzhkov v Medvedev
A German railway row
Green shooters
Balkan railways
From Berlin to Beijing?
Charlemagne
Waiting for the big call

■Britain
Labour's leadership race
And the winner is…
Angry trade unions
The comrades take on the coalition
The evolution of pubs
Two pints of lager and a decaf latte
Inflation angst
The trouble with Plan B
Governing the BBC
Into the fray, minus shield
Science funding
Grey-sky thinking
Bagehot
Mary who?

■International
Romanies
A long road
Romanies and terminology
Words not deeds
Green funerals
Exit strategies
Cryptography, Iran and America
Worse than useless

■Business
Aircraft-makers
Another nose in the trough
Healthy food
Yuck
Mobile phones in tough places
Wireless carrier-pigeons
Print on the iPad
A smashing success
Faber-Castell
The future of the pencil
Foreign investment in China
Even harder than it looks
Sex and e-commerce
Tubular hell
Schumpeter
Down with fun

■Briefing
The American economy
The great debt drag

■Finance and Economics
Africa's banking boom
Scrambled in Africa
Buttonwood
Another paradox of thrift
Wall Street, the sequel
Goldman whacked
Nigeria's banks
Lagos in limbo
Financial regulation
Basel's buttress
Yen intervention
Because I Kan
Finance after the crisis: CalPERS
Investor, heal thyself
Economics focus
Sizing up China's cities

■Science & Technology
Black holes
Win some, lose some
Video games
The skills from zapping 'em
Flying fish
Natural-born gliders
Locust swarms
The rules of attraction
Correction: Geothermal energy

■Books & Arts
New fiction
Petals of blood
War in Afghanistan
A wasteful effort
American politics
A man in full
The Mexican drug trade
Get Shorty
Sarah Bernhardt
Divine inspiration
Pakistan
Lovebirds and murder
Ferdowsi's “Shahnameh”
The book of kings

■Obituary
Lord Bingham

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Industrial production
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
MBA salaries