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

■Leaders
The world economy
The quest for growth
Electoral boundaries in America
Time to bury Governor Gerry
Public spending
Biting the hand that feeds him
Electric cars
Highly charged motoring
Zimbabwe
Call Robert Mugabe's bluff

■Letters
On the euro, forests, wind farms, mortgages in America, the Senkaku islands

■Briefing
Zimbabwe
Can Robert Mugabe ever be persuaded to give up?

■United States
The California governor's race
Enter the housekeeper
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rage against the machine
Political polls
Still worth reading?
Pete Rouse
A new man for harder times
Indiana's Senate race
The blue blip
Southern Baptists
The new Calvins
Wave power
Help from the moon
Birdwatching
Rara avis
Lexington
The best Congress money can buy?

■The Americas
Brazil's presidential election
A miss, but not by a mile
Brazil's electoral laws
Send in the clown
Ecuador's police mutiny
A strike against democracy
Human rights in Argentina
Do as I say
Chile's Mapuches
Trying violence

■Asia
Pakistan's shaky government
Hobbling along
America and Pakistan
On the brink
American troops in Afghanistan
The Petraeus strategy up close
Railways in Tibet
Mount Everest is singing for joy
The Commonwealth games in Delhi
At least they started
South Korea's kimchi crisis
Of cabbages and Kims
Banyan
And never the twain?

■Middle East & Africa
Iran's economy
Sanctions begin to bite
Women in South Africa
Walking several paces behind
Bombings in Nigeria
A bloody election omen
An index of African governance
A rum old mix

■Europe
France's president
Watch out, world
Politics in the Netherlands
Not exactly Dutch courage
Ireland's politics
How now Brian Cowen?
Latvia's election
Guts and glory
Germany's Greens
Greenery in high places
German beer drinking
Oktobergloom
Charlemagne
A false prophet

■Britain
The row over welfare cuts
And for my next trick
The Tory right
Blue on blue
Housing immigrants
Bleak house
Fire-service reform
More with less
North Sea oil
Striking the set
Cornish pasties
Upper crust
Paying for higher education
To the victor, the bill
Bagehot
Keep calm, but don't carry on

■International
Holy places
Unholy rows
Aquifers
Deep waters, slowly drying up
Alien torts
Trial trails
Global health funding
Passing the tin

■A special report on the world economy
How to grow
Withdrawal symptoms
The cost of repair
From hoarding to hiring
Pass and move
Smart work
A better way
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Electric cars
A sparky new motor
Microsoft's mobile operating system
Windows or curtains
Video communication
Beaming in Grandma
Car hire
Drive my car
Fast-food restaurants
Dough rising
Bright Food
A growing appetite
Irish companies
Riding the tiger
Schumpeter
The other demographic dividend
Correction: Patents

■Briefing
What's working in music
Having a ball

■Finance and Economics
Investment banking
The big squeeze
Buttonwood
The magic bullet
Regulating Swiss banks
First mover
The flash crash
Autopsy
Oil prices
Crude awakening
The Japanese economy
Easy does it
SocGen's rogue trader
All his fault
Economics focus
Flood barriers
Correction: Ireland

■Science & Technology
Chinese ethics
Scientists behaving badly
Asteroid Lutetia
A dusty neighbour
The 2010 Nobel prizes
Making new things
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Phoning ET

■Books & Arts
Global power
On top of the world
James Wolfensohn
Banker to the world
A literary memoir
Killer instinct
Edith Cavell
Carve her name with pride
Eadweard Muybridge
Man in motion

■Obituary
Michael Lassen

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