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

■Leaders
The public sector unions
The battle ahead
Nemtsov in prison
Frozen out
Financial markets
The big mo
South Sudan
A necessary secession
Pakistan
A good man who did something

■Letters
On doctoral degrees, polluting ships, Richard Holbrooke, British pubs

■Briefing
Public-sector workers
(Government) workers of the world unite!

■United States
The 112th Congress convenes
In discord assembled
Improving teachers
Lessons learned
The Deepwater Horizon report
Blame and shame
Chris Christie
The conservative crush
Cowboy boots
A certain swagger
Rural health care
Country doc, city doc
Rows over GM crops
Seed of change
Lexington
Studying the Gipper

■The Americas
Post-earthquake Haiti
The year of surviving in squalor
Protests in Bolivia
Fuel on the fire
Science in Brazil
Go south, young scientist
Food in Mexico
Centéotl's pricier feast
Politics in Argentina
Down among the underclass

■Asia
Pakistan's increasing radicalisation
Staring into the abyss
Kazakhstan's benevolent father
Long live the khan
Australian politics
Julia Gillard's rising waters
Land grabs and a disputed death in China
Goons and the common man
India's energy diplomacy
Tipping the scales
Vietnam's troubled economy
Steady as she staggers
Banyan
The indispensable incarnation

■Middle East & Africa
South Sudan
Independence beckons
Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia
Fear of contagion
Israel's party problems
Will the ruling coalition shrink?
The Gaza Strip
A rumble of war
Tunisia's troubles
Sour young men

■Europe
France's Socialist Party
The man who would be president
Spain and ETA
On the verge of a nervous peace
Ireland's election
Epic fail
Italy's brain drain
No Italian jobs
Serbia's arms industry
Bombs away
Polish politics
Get a move on
Charlemagne
Hungary's other deficit

■Britain
Bold newspapers
The crucible of print
Dealing with suspected terrorists
Last orders?
London's bicycle-hire scheme
Grit in the gears
Public relations
Ego goes solo
Kitchen cabinets in politics
Can stand the heat
Part-time higher education
Open sesame
Britain's inflationary relapse
A test of nerves
Bagehot
A compromising position

■International
Law and religion
Faith in courts
Global climate
Tough little girl
International rankings
Wrong numbers
Bioterror, Africa and security
A bug's life

■Business
Social media
Is Facebook really worth $50 billion?
Social media in Indonesia
Eat, pray, tweet
European tyremakers
Bouncing back
Starbucks v Kraft
A double shot of discord
Music videos
From cash cow to cachet
Air travel
The misery of flying
POSCO's Indian steel project
Greens v jobs
Schumpeter
The tussle for talent

■Briefing
Momentum in financial markets
Why Newton was wrong

■Finance and Economics
Price rises in China
Inflated fears
Indian inflation
Enough to make your eyes water
A more hopeful continent
The lion kings?
Bank of America
Moynihan's millstones
Buttonwood
Betting big on bonds
Grameen Bank
Saint under siege
Chinese capital markets
Another breach in the wall
Economics focus
Dismal ethics

■Science & Technology
Climate science
A fistful of dust
The inheritance of obesity
Thanks, Dad
Freight transport
Put that in your pipe and poke it
Palaeontology
The last supper

■Books & Arts
Politics and the internet
Caught in the net
The war on terror
History of an unfinished fight
Young Americans
Left out in the rain
The financial crisis
Piecing it together
America's revolution
The king's shilling
New film: “Black Swan”
Inside moves

■Obituary
Carlos Andrés Pérez

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
The Economist poll of forecasters, January averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Mergers and acquisitions