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

■Leaders
Forests and how to save them
The world's lungs
Nuclear weapons
Just do it
The North Korean succession
Thanks Dad
Barack Obama and business
The wages of negligence
Europe's single-currency woes
Euro follies
Israel and Palestine
Keep on fudging

■Letters
On President Sarkozy, game conservation, Middle East peace talks, patents, Manmohan Singh, Damien Hirst, Zoroastrians, Rod Blagojevich

■Briefing
The Millennium Development Goals
Global targets, local ingenuity
Child malnutrition in India
Putting the smallest first

■United States
Barack Obama and corporate America
No love lost
Larry Summers resigns
The brains trust dissolves
The Florida Senate race
Is Rubio stoppable?
Barack Obama and Afghanistan
Get me out of here
Predatory fish
The carp tsar's struggle
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill
After the kill
Lexington
The perils of constitution-worship

■The Americas
Venezuela's legislative election
Chávez grapples with a 50/50 nation
Energy policy in Quebec
High-speed gas
Brazil and peacekeeping
Policy, not altruism
Peru's reviving left
Oh! Susana

■Asia
North Korea's succession
Next of Kim
China's spat with Japan
Deng's heirs ignore his advice
Indonesia's capital
Metro or bust
Afghanistan's parliamentary election
Not exactly a ringing endorsement
Banyan
The games people play (or not)

■Middle East & Africa
South Sudan
Are they heading for a crash?
Hamas and the peace talks
Contradictory noises
Israel's religious right
That wobbly balance
Shia Muslims in the Gulf
Worrying times

■Europe
German politics
It's a rainy day, sunshine girl
Data privacy in Germany
No pixels, please, we're German
Sweden's election
The winner doesn't take it all
Romanies
Home thoughts
France's poor image
France v the world
Charlemagne
Angels and demons

■Britain
The Liberal Democrats
The price of power
Vince Cable
Karl Marx meets Adam Smith
Reviewing extradition
Hand 'em over
Scooters
Three wheels good
The future of Lloyds
Stuff happened
Regeneration and cuts
One in the eye
Welfare spending
Pistols at dawn
Bagehot
Playground politics

■International
Betting on sport
The agony of influence
Indoor pollution
Silent and deadly

■A special report on forests
Seeing the wood
Money can grow on trees
Better REDD than dead
Keeping it in the community
Not a small problem
The long road to sustainability
Less smoke, less ire
Something stirs
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Brazil's mining giant
Valuable Vale
The wine boom in Hong Kong
Days of wine and tulips
Smartphones in South Korea
LG's woes
Retailing in South-East Asia
Exit Carrefour
Facebook on film
Screen test
Green energy
Wild is the wind
Corporate governance
Pointers for predators
Newspapers in India
Where print makes profits
Schumpeter
The wiki way

■Briefing
How to run the euro
Fixing Europe's single currency
A Keynesian prototype
Standard solution

■Finance and Economics
The yuan goes global
A Mao in every pocket
US-China trade relations
Speak less softly, carry a stick
Currencies
Trial of strength
Buttonwood
Busily going nowhere
America's consumer-protection agency
The big guys' lament
Italian banks
An exit unbecoming
Hedge funds
Tucking in
Economics focus
The Marmite effect
Correction: Ireland

■Science & Technology
The biology of business
Homo administrans

■Books & Arts
Art and politics
How a young revolutionary fooled the city elders
Britain in the 1970s
Worst of times, best of times
African travel
Seeking the soothsayers
Seamus Heaney's poetry
The squat pen rests
Saving trees in Amazonas
A well-hugged lot
Lucian Freud
The painter in his studio
The story of eels
Slithery, determined and mysterious

■Obituary
Bärbel Bohley

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Household access to energy
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Petrol tax