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

■Leaders
The global economy
How to stop a currency war
News Corporation's bid for BSkyB
Clouding over the Sky
Drugs and security in North America
Mexican waves, Californian cool
Islamic law and democracy
Sense about sharia
Public-sector pensions
Three-trillion-dollar hole

■Letters
On the American constitution, Somalia, cyberwar, Brazil's elections, qat-chewing, David Bowie, teachers' unions, Trident

■Briefing
Organised crime in Mexico
Under the volcano

■United States
Health care and the mid-term elections
Coming back to bite him
The Rockies
The mile-high battle
Marijuana in California
An altered state
The economy
It's all up to the Fed
More senior staff changes
Out goes the general
Prisons and mobile phones
Bricking the intruders
Poverty in the suburbs
Mortgage or food
Lexington
An own goal on gay rights

■The Americas
Chile's mine rescue
Plucked from the bowels of the earth
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Latin American liberal
Canada's foreign policy
Snubbed

■Asia
North Korea's succession
Spinning the wrong 'Un
The Philippines' awakening president
Noynoy's welcome stand
Japan's judiciary on trial
Prosecutors or persecutors?
India's cricket scandals
A high stakes game
Kyrgyzstan's election
Teetering steppes
Developing Afghanistan
Now the splurge
Banyan
A hard stone in the wilderness

■Middle East & Africa
Arab elections
Not much of a choice
Bahrain's pre-election jitters
Backward steps
Israel and its Arabs
Pulled apart
South Africa's foreign policy
Human rights? What's that?

■Europe
Anglo-French defence co-operation
Entente or bust
France's strikes
Struck off
Troubleshooting in the western Balkans
Outsiders needed
Hungary's toxic sludge
Waltzing with disaster
Italy's Northern League
Not so grim up north
Europe's gas pipelines
The abominable gas man
Charlemagne
Money matters

■Britain
Paying for higher education
The coalition's first big exam
Philanthropy
The giving game
The rise of Sky
No wonder they're scared
Labour's new line-up
Team Miliband
Political rhetoric
You know―or do you?
The switch in price indices
One cut to rule them all
Bagehot
Lest ye be judged

■International
Sharia in the West
Whose law counts most?
Islam's legal lexicon
How to speak sharia
When referendums work
Vox pops
Law, politics and internet addresses
tough.ly/treated

■Business
Nuclear power in America
Constellation's cancellation
Renewable electricity
Not just wind
Vaccines
A smarter jab
Business in Iraq
Of bribes, bullets and bargains
Innovation in China
Patents, yes; ideas, maybe
Consumer goods
Basket cases
Accountancy firms
A conflict of interest?
Gymboree
Bain's baby bet
Schumpeter
The business of sharing
Award: Ludwig Siegele
Corrections: Panera Cares restaurant and Dollar Thrifty

■Briefing
American states' pension funds
A gold-plated burden

■Finance and Economics
Currency wars
Fumbling towards a truce
China's reserves
In need of a bigger boat
The Big Mac index
An indigestible problem
Foreclosuregate
Robostop
Indonesian banks
Profits puzzle
Sovereign-debt managers
Rollover roulette
Buttonwood
Old-age tension
Corn prices
As high as an elephant's eye
The IASB's new leaders
Double entry
Economics focus
Search and employ

■Science & Technology
Psychiatric diagnosis
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
Obesity
Does light make you fat?
Education
Learning difficulties
Anti-censorship
Hidden truths
SpaceShipTwo
Glide path to success?

■Books & Arts
Mass murder
History and its woes
The rise of private equity
Buccaneering
Urban development in America
Monuments to power
Humanitarian aid
Feeding the beast
Medieval France
Slouching towards the Renaissance

■Obituary
Norman Wisdom

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Global hunger
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Biggest sovereign CDS positions