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

■Leaders
The United States, Israel and the Arabs
Please, not again
Elections in Belarus
A nasty surprise in Belarus
Network neutrality
A tangled web
The American economy
Proceed with caution
India and Kashmir
K is for complacency

■Letters
On Japan, private equity, nuclear power, vertical farming, morals, Social Security, mating behaviour, the euro

■Briefing
America and the Middle East
Great sacrifices, small rewards
Israel, Hamas and Hizbullah
Missiles all round

■United States
Demography and the economy
As boomers wrinkle
The 2010 census
Tilting rightwards
New York's new governor
Fathers and sons
Christian theme parks
Noah problem
Las Vegas in crisis
Party over
Lexington
Goths at the gate

■The Americas
Hugo Chávez's Venezuela
A coup against the constitution
Brazil's new president
Coming down to earth

■Asia
Thailand's red-shirt opposition
Beware the watermelons
Tensions on the Korean peninsula
Talking down the barrel of a gun
Beijing's traffic woes
Hitting the brakes
Kashmir's troubles
Shaking the mountains

■Middle East & Africa
Nigeria's restive delta
The president is threatened by a fraying amnesty
Kenya and the international court
Will they go quietly?
Iraq's new government
A tricky cocktail
Pollution in Tehran
The smoggiest of all capitals

■Europe
The Khodorkovsky verdict
Doing things the Putin way
Germany's Free Democratic Party
Feeling unwelle
German taxes
Not a mere bagatelle
Religion in Turkey
Diyanet effect
Slovakia and the euro
Bratislava's plan B
Charlemagne
Baltic bet

■Britain
Voting reform and the coalition
There is an alternative
Rail fares
After the deluge, the pinch
Gold mining
Precious but precarious
Bagehot
A plague on their House

■International
Information technology goes global
Tanks in the cloud
Phone calls
Hanging up

■Business
Alibaba
China's king of e-commerce
Luxury goods
The second handbag war
Ernst & Young sued over Lehman
Going for the auditors
Motorola
Breaking up
EADS
Peace on the Rhine
Schumpeter
Beyond the start-up nation
Correction: Internet start-ups

■Briefing
Online dating
Love at first byte
Business in China and the West
A tale of two expats

■Finance and Economics
Dubai's finances
Debt forgetfulness
Buttonwood
In a spin
Car finance
Into the fast lane
Charts of 2010
A year in nine pictures
Economics focus
Parallel economies

■Science & Technology
Methane on Mars
Now you don't...
Orthopaedics
Plastic surgery
Human evolution
The old man of the mountain returns

■Books & Arts
Art in Qatar
A Smithsonian in the sand
Gordon Brown's memoirs
Oh me, oh my
The making of the sexes
Fluid movement
Technology and monopolies
Separation anxiety
Natural history
Birdman

■Obituary
Hendrik Coetzee

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP growth forecasts, 2011, %
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Ships