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

■Leaders
The state of the union
The union's troubled state
Britain's stuttering economy
Don't panic—yet
Protests in Egypt
The scent of jasmine spreads
Phone-hacking in Britain
The old man and the Met
Israel and Palestine
Leaks must not poison diplomacy

■Letters
On air travel, Pakistan, Côte d'Ivoire, Wikipedia, bankers, investing, economics, French, company logos

■Briefing
Barack Obama's next two years
Crunch time

■United States
Recession and homelessness
Et in Arcadia ego
The state of Michigan
Send in the nerd
Petrol prices
A jump at the pump
Mob crime
Borgata bust
Tax-exempt religious organisations
God knows
The colonias of the Mexican border
Paving the way
Miami's concert hall
From the New World
Water worries
The drying of the West
Lexington
The ghost of Gingrich

■The Americas
Mexico's presidential campaign
Saddling up for the trail to Los Pinos
Executive pay in Brazil
Top whack
Conservatism in Alberta
Prairie fire
Canada's civil service
Oui, ministre
Security in Colombia
Guerrilla miners

■Asia
Afghanistan's crucial year
An orchard of ills
Afghanistan and Iran
Edgy neighbours
Myanmar's sham legislature
A parliament, but not as you know it
Electoral reform in Japan
Breaking the backs of farmers
India and the Naxalites
How not to fight terror
Banyan
With respect to China
Seeking a journalist to cover China

■Middle East & Africa
Protest in Egypt
Another Arab regime under threat
Tunisia's upheaval
No one is really in charge
Lebanon's new government
Blazing cedars
Demonstrations in Yemen
Catching on
The African Union
Short of cash and teeth
The jargon of aid
Anyone here speak NGOish?

■Europe
Suicide bombs in Moscow
Terror at the airport
Ireland's government
Biffo biffed
France and the G20
Uncharacteristic modesty
Controversial Turkish television
Magnificent no more
Albania and Kosovo
A bad week
Slovakia's prime minister
Lonely tigress
Charlemagne
The trouble with Flanders

■Britain
The surprise fall in GDP
The lean year
George Osborne and Ed Balls
Cavalier versus roundhead
Counter-terrorism laws
A balancing act
BBC funding
Dosvidaniya, London
The furore over phone-hacking
Not going quietly
The National Security Council
Defenders of the realm
Bagehot
Nice up north

■International
The politics of food
Hungry for votes
Fighting poverty
High life
Cassava
Second helpings of tapioca pudding
Islam and demography
A waxing crescent

■Business
India
Identifying a billion Indians
Budget airlines
In the cheap seats
Litigation in America
Class discipline
Attitudes to business
Milton Friedman goes on tour
The changing face of Japanese retailing
The co-op strikes back
The coal boom
Burning ambitions
Coal in Indonesia
Two dynasties, several pits
Schumpeter
The crescent and the company

■Briefing
Mobile services in poor countries
Not just talk

■Finance and Economics
British banks
Vickers in a twist
America's financial-crisis commission
Take your pick
Private equity
Public exposure
Buttonwood
In debt to Grandpa
Chinese banks in America
Hu's coup
The McFlation index
Lies, flame-grilled lies and statistics
Global trade
A deadline for Doha
Economics focus
Dancing elephants

■Science & Technology
Solid-state batteries
The power of the press
Military communications
Liquid radio
Weighing a kilogram
The constant gardeners
The Richard Casement internship

■Books & Arts
The exercise of power
Running the world
American political fiction
Earmarked
Innovation
The red menace, reconsidered
Thinkers in history
Philosophy as inspiration
The post-war world
Coming together
Art in Tasmania
Something new

■Obituary
John Gross

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Housing
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global imbalances