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

■Leaders
China's succession
The next emperor
A country's welcome rise
Is Turkey turning its back on the West?
Brazil's presidential election
Second round, second thoughts?
America's property market
Home truths
Convention on Biological Diversity
The least of God's creatures has value
Britain's spending review
Ouch!

■Letters
On far-right politicians, guns in America, child benefit, electric cars, swearing, cleanliness

■Briefing
Germany's role in the world
Will Germany now take centre stage?

■United States
The mid-terms
States' fights
New York
Strange meeting
Ballot measures
Up to the fourth branch
Pat Toomey v Joe Sestak
Suspennsylvania
New Mexico's 2nd congressional district
An immigration election too
Biotechnology in North Carolina
After tobacco
Infrastructure spending
False expectations
Free internet
The librarian's tale
Lexington
Trouble with the humans

■The Americas
Brazil's presidential election
Better late than never?
Chile's copper industry
Reviving Codelco
Media freedom in Latin America
Shooting the messenger
Obesity in Mexico
One taco too many

■Asia
China's next leader
Xi who must be obeyed
China's muffled media
Gagging to be free
Pakistan's political crises
A biggish dust-up in Karachi
Anglo-Indians
Some corner of a foreign field
Australia's climate-change policy
Greening Oz
Mongolia's mining boom
Nomads no more
Banyan
SBY's feet of clay

■Middle East & Africa
Electricity in Nigeria
Let there be light
Ethiopia and China
Looking east
Corruption in South Africa
Brothers in arms
Bloggers in the Middle East
Don't be too cheeky
Israel and Palestine
We built this city on rock'n'roll

■Europe
France's protests
Where the streets have no shame
Spanish politics
Zapatero's endgame
Portugal's public finances
The apology of Sócrates
Moscow's new mayor
A graduate of the school of Putin
Poland and Lithuania
Narcissistic differences
Charlemagne
The treat of treaties

■Britain
Cutting back the state
Day of the long knives
The enemies of austerity
Coalition of the unwilling
The strategic defence review
A retreat, but not a rout
Prison reform
Let 'em out and throw away the key
Protests
Off our streets
Prenuptial agreements
Romantic small print
Bagehot
Austerity Britain's global ambitions

■International
Political parties
The party's (largely) over
Health-care management
How to save lives
Archiving the web
Born digital
New Roman Catholic cardinals
Unbendable

■A special report on Turkey
Anchors aweigh
Doing it by the book
The Davutoglu effect
A fading European dream
Immovable object
Balance of power
All Turks together?
Silk road to riches
In it for the long haul
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Smart-phone lawsuits
The great patent battle
Privatising Coal India
Powering the tiger
Daimler's innovation unit
Thinking outside the car
Gender arbitrage in South Korea
Profiting from sexism
A Franco-German train tiff
Ils ne passeront pas
Pharmaceuticals
Attack of the biosimilars
Luxury goods
Bling is back
Shoplifting
Five-fingered discounts
Schumpeter
Companies aren’t charities

■Briefing
Drexel Burnham Lambert's legacy
Stars of the junkyard

■Finance and Economics
Terra Firma and Citigroup
Take that
Alternative investments in Europe
Goalless draw
China's economy
A new epic
Buttonwood
Engine trouble
Global house prices
Floor to ceiling
The AIA offering
Bailing out
BNP Paribas
Stop. Think. Act
Economics focus
Drowning or waiving

■Science & Technology
Computer vision
Eye robot
Policing
The aftershocks of crime
Clean water
Silver threads of life
Evolution and coat colour
Well spotted
Correction: SpaceShipTwo

■Books & Arts
Zimbabwe
Battered yet resilient
George Washington
First among equals
The Caucasus
Playground for war
Mahmoud Darwish's journal
Sad prophet
Weeds
Shards of green
John Baldessari
So what is this thing called art?
New film
Dancing with death

■Obituary
Benoît Mandelbrot

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