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

■Leaders
Chinese acquisitions
China buys up the world
Commodity traders
Know your onions
Reform in Cuba
Raúl the pragmatist
United Nations
Thinking the UNthinkable
Welfare reform
Getting it right

■Letters
On the mid-term elections, Turkey, corruption, quantitative easing

■Briefing
The future of NATO
Fewer dragons, more snakes

■United States
Congress
Rocking the party
The president's deficit commission
Nice try
Unemployment insurance
Cold comfort
Politics in the South
The long goodbye
New York's schools
A new head of the class
The Chicago mayor's race
His kind of town
“Puppy mills”
A dog's life
Water-saving in the north-east
Trees grow in Brooklyn
Lexington
Reassessing George Bush

■The Americas
Reform in Cuba
Trying to make the sums add up
Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Dredging up votes
Policing in Canada
Mutiny of the Mounty

■Asia
Obama in Asia
The elephant outside the room
The India-Pakistan border
Keeping the hackles up
Japan and its unfree trade
Paddies vs Prius
Indonesia's Mount Merapi
Dangerously hot air
Taiwan and Japan
X not V
Court scandals in Thailand
Judges in the dock
Human rights and how to deal with China
Don't you dare go to dinner
Banyan
The dog that didn't bark

■Middle East & Africa
Lebanon and the region
Can there be justice as well as stability?
Israel and its natural resources
What a gas!
Iraq's looming new government
This time they may really do it
Uganda's dangerous rebels
Lords of woe
South Sudan and independence
Pressing the north to let the south go

■Europe
Immigration in Germany
Multikulturell? Wir?
Berlin's economy
The hole in the middle
Turkey and press freedom
Publish and be damned
Media freedom in Russia
Smashing the messengers
Slovakia's rickety government
Law or justice
French diplomacy
The Quai adrift
Charlemagne
Power to the European market

■Britain
Trade and foreign policy
Go east, young men
The government's new guru
Bring me sunshine
A riot in London
Students get rowdy
Anglicanism splits
Flying bishops take off
Gay marriage
Banned banns
A row over defence
The seat of their pants
Magazine publishing
Read all over
Housing benefit
Where the heart is
Bagehot
The British bayonet
Awards

■International
Trusting charities
Faith, hope and charities
Data protectionism
Serfing the web

■Business
Hotels
Asset-light or asset-right?
Rolls-Royce
Containing engine failure
General Motors' revival
Living in lean times
Tata's Nano
Nah, no
Wireless health care
M-powered
Ermenegildo Zegna
Fashionably alive
America's law schools and firms
Trouble with the law
Schumpeter
Sticking together

■Briefing
Chinese takeovers
Being eaten by the dragon

■Finance and Economics
The euro-zone crisis, again
Still crazy after all these yields
Commodity speculators
Dr Evil, or drivel?
Minerals in Asia
A rock, not a hard place
Buttonwood
South Sea QE
The G20 meetings
What you going to do about it?
Economic indicators from the web
Dotconomy
East European exchanges
Bourse battle
Economics focus
Tax from scratch

■Science & Technology
Global science
Climbing Mount Publishable
Obesity, malnutrition and gestation
Slim pickings
Psychopathy
Socially challenging

■Books & Arts
The American civil war
Into the flames
Modern Egypt
The new pharaohs
Ireland's economic woes
Tiger, tiger, burning dull
Early Renaissance Italy
Behind closed doors
The history of finance
The man who stamped the crash
Photography
As it is, not as it should be

■Obituary
P. Lal

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
World primary energy demand
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Remittances