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

■Leaders
Inequality
The rich and the rest
China's currency
The rise of the redback
Tunisia and the Arab world
Let the scent of jasmine spread
Asian medical innovation
Life should be cheap
Doing deals in Russia
How bad is BP?
The costs of drug prohibition
Let them chew coca

■Letters
On gun control, Italy, public-sector unions, London's bike-hire scheme, food prices, light bulbs, happiness

■Briefing
Tunisia
Ali Baba gone, but what about the 40 thieves?

■United States
Regulation and the Obama administration
Red tape rising
Defining poverty
Measure by measure
Filibuster reform
Talking cure
Haley Barbour's ambitions
Inside man
Sargent Shriver's passing
Altruism personified
The cotton industry
Bloom times
The states and their budgets
In search of an answer
Lexington
China in the mind of America

■The Americas
Organised crime in Central America
The rot spreads
The coca leaf
Storm in an Andean teacup
Disaster prevention in Brazil
After the flood
Justice and Haiti
Baby crawls back
Cuba and the United States
The worm that turned

■Asia
Integrating South-East Asia
China coming down the tracks
A cabinet shake-up in Japan
The pol who won't give up
Indian politics
More bite needed
Reporting in North Korea
Not the Pyongyang Times
Politics in Malaysia
Najib in overdrive
China's Confucius Institutes
Rectification of statues
Banyan
Tiger cubs v precious lambs
Correction: Nagasaki

■Middle East & Africa
Israeli politics
Can the doves take off again?
Syria's economy
Hard choices for the government
Nigeria's presidential primary
Another term beckons
South Africa's languages
Tongues under threat

■Europe
Spain and the euro crisis
A great burden for Zapatero to bear
France and Africa
Ties across the Mediterranean
Silvio Berlusconi's scandals
A party animal
Lithuania and Poland
Bad blood
Teaching German immigrants history
The past is another country
Charlemagne
The name's Bond. Eurobond

■Britain
Reforming public services
Where Thatcher feared to tread
The inflation scare
The long blip
Burberry and globalisation
A checkered story
Cheap booze
Getting (a wee bit) dearer
Rape and prostitution
In from the cold
Education maintenance allowances
A hand-up, not a handset
Transparency and the state
Fiat a little more lux
Recycling government data
Bit by bit
Bagehot
The Gruffalo years

■International
Inequality
Unbottled Gini
Correction: The Indian army

■A special report on global leaders
The few
More millionaires than Australians
Unloading the loaded
The rise and rise of the cognitive elite
Not for sale
The world's water-coolers
The global campus
Crazy-talking boffins
Tribes still matter
Asia's new aristocrats
They work for us
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Medical technology
Frugal healing
Japan responds to China
Rare action
BP in Russia
Dancing with Mr Putin
Food prices
The consequences of costly nosh
Face value: John Quelch
Teaching case studies in China
Live music
Pricing the piper
Apple
The boss is unwell
Schumpeter
Nipping at their heels

■Briefing
Canada's tar sands
Muck and brass

■Finance and Economics
China's currency
Stranger than fiction
Shorting China
Waiting for the great fall
High-yield bonds
Back on the junk
Buttonwood
Worlds apart
Goldman Sachs and Facebook
A risk too far
Commodity prices and global growth
Back with a vengeance
Commodity prices
Fluid logic
Economics focus
The beautiful and the damned

■Science & Technology
Premarital sex
The waiting game
Planetary rovers
Space hopping
Cigarettes in films
Smoked out
Water purification
Any old iron?
Palaeontology
Unscrambled eggs

■Books & Arts
Modern India
Over a billion people now
Pakistan
Future unrosy
The rise and fall of the dollar
Go with the flows
Economic folly
How the reader was lost
The global economy
Forecasting trouble
Ibsen's “John Gabriel Borkman”
Winter chill

■Obituary
Alfred Kahn

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Labour productivity
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Foreign direct investment