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

■Leaders
The world economy
Three-way split
Dealing with Russia
Be critical, not hypocritical
Dealing with WikiLeaks
The right reaction
Israel, Palestine and America
A bad blip but not the end of the affair
Calamitous Côte d'Ivoire
Another big test for Africa

■Letters
On immigration, happiness, quantitative easing, North Korea, Chinese, occupied Paris

■Briefing
The state of Russia
Frost at the core

■United States
Taxes, benefits and the deficit
Kicking the can down the road
The president's deficit commission
No cigar
The House Appropriations Committee
Tweaking the tea-party's nose
Judicial appointments
Judge not
High-speed trains
Running out of steam
Road rage
Rattled
The most Republican states
Who is the reddest of them all?
Lexington
Playing chess with Iran

■The Americas
Education in Brazil
No longer bottom of the class
Education in Chile
Blackboard battle
Colombia's foreign policy
Seeking new friends
Haiti's election
Whomever they voted for...
Corruption in Canada
Les fleurs du mal

■Asia
Tensions on the Korean peninsula
From sunshiners to hardliners
Indian politics
Nothing to smile about
America's FTA with South Korea
Where's the beef?
China's Catholics
The party versus the pope
China's economy
Keqiang ker-ching
Australia's water war
Refilling the basin
Banyan
Under water

■Middle East & Africa
Talks between Israelis and Palestinians
Come back later
Qatar's World Cup win
What cash can do
Saudi Arabia and China
Looking east
Nigeria's primaries
A northern bid
Iran's morality campaign
Watch out!
South Africa's opposition
Making a little difference

■Europe
France loses ground to Germany
Power shift
The Irish budget
A tight squeeze
Europe's resilient economies
Little triggers
Italy’s tottering government
Finished by Fini?
Disappointing Romania
Holes and corners
Charlemagne
Fighting fire with fire

■Britain
Energy and climate change
Clean and green, for a price
Academic excellence
The best or the rest
Russian espionage
Clots and plots
University tuition fees
Agreeing to disagree
Prison reform
Tiger by the tail
Britain's regions
Call the Scots
Philanthropy and the arts
Give over
Bagehot
A question of character

■International
The war on WikiLeaks
Fingered
WikiLeaks' latest
More dope, no highs
Coming next
A swarm of leaks

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Seeing into the future
Monitor
Blow me up, blow me down
Monitor
Air power on the cheap
Monitor
Better safe than sorry
Monitor
Monster power
Monitor
Flying saucers
Monitor
Not to be sniffed at
Monitor
Airships of the sea
Monitor
Fluid defences
Monitor
And the winners were...
Difference Engine
Bigger and better than Wi-Fi
Vertical farming
Does it really stack up?
Inside story
Superstructures
Mini nuclear reactors
Thinking small
Satellite wars
Endangered birds
Brain scan
Making data dance
Offer to readers

■Business
Investing in Russia
Pepsi's Russian challenge
The renewable-energy business
Shining a light
Ships as polluters
Smokestack lightening
Face value: Marc Simoncini
Lucky in love
Chinese business
Where are the profits?
Health care in the Middle East
Sun, shopping and surgery
Bookselling
Repelling Borders
Business and WikiLeaks
Be afraid
Schumpeter
Barack and business
Correction: trendwatching.com

■Briefing
Ford
Epiphany in Dearborn

■Finance and Economics
European banks
The last idealists
Asian economies
Importing pessimism
Financial lawsuits
Give peace a chance
The American mortgage mess
Invest then protest
Private equity in Europe
The lost continent
Buttonwood
Getting real
Economics focus
All pain, no gain?

■Science & Technology
Sexual selection
Hunkier than thou
Prevention of cancer
Wonder drug
Perfume
Making sense of scents
Embryonic stem cells
Testing science

■Books & Arts
China's financial system
Look again
Benjamin Britten
Songlines
Mr Brainwash, street artist
Con or can do
Mediterranean cities
Winds of cosmopolitanism
The meaning of a fetus
Bearing witness

■Obituary
Elaine Kaufman

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Employment outlook
Correction: South Africa