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

■Leaders
Qaddafi and his ilk
Blood and oil
The future of food
Crisis prevention
Labour law in America
Showdown in Madison
Japanese banks
Back from the dead
Basque politics
Hold your nose, and let them stand

■Letters
On Germany, Scotland, the Voting Rights Act, 3D printing, American sports, Belgium, Italy, history

■Briefing
The Arab uprisings
Endgame in Tripoli
The liberated east
Building a new Libya
Egypt's and Tunisia's transitions
When regimes stick
Tensions in Morocco
A firm royal hand
The nervous Gulf
Bullets and bribes
Protests in Yemen
Getting together

■United States
Taking on the public-sector unions
Wisconsin and wider
Andrew Cuomo and the unions
Meanwhile, in New York...
Federal budget battles
Tick, tock
The deficit and the Senate
The stealth deficit commission
Rahm Emanuel wins
Chicago, 1AD
Drug courts
Stay out of jail clean
Abortion in Texas
Signs of pro-life
Lexington
How to close Guantánamo

■The Americas
Venezuela's economy
Oil leak
North American integration
To each his own
Monarch butterflies in Mexico
Kings of the sky

■Asia
The surge in Afghanistan
More please, sir
Comparing Chinese provinces with countries
All the parities in China
Thailand's yellow shirts
Eat, talk, pray, revolt
An earthquake in New Zealand
When luck ran out
India's huge census
Heads up
Digging up Japan's past
Deafening silence
Banyan
Taiwan's commonsense consensus

■Middle East & Africa
Uganda's election
Rambo reigns
South Africa's economy
No jobs, boys
Djibouti's troubles
Wee but worrisome

■Europe
Defence reform in Germany
The Teflon minister
German politics
Unhappy in Hamburg
Basque politics
Same, but different
Macedonia's fractious politics
Scandal, tension and turbulence
Jews in Poland
Warsaw's wounds
Ukraine's president
Viktor Yanukovich turns eastward
Charlemagne
No time for doubters

■Britain
The French community in London
Paris-on-Thames
Another London diaspora
Little Arabia
The police and firearms
Calling the shots
Banks and tax
No squeaks from these pips
Governing the BBC
A lord to run the Beeb
Council spending
The kindest cut
Manufacturing and exports
Jurassic business park
Bagehot
Lovely-jubbly. Tally-ho!
Internship

■International
Military-to-military relationships
The ties that bind
Political systems
The fashion to be federal

■A special report on feeding the world
The 9 billion-people question
How much is enough?
Plagued by politics
No easy fix
Waste not, want not
Doing more with less
Our daily bread
Not just calories
A prospect of plenty
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Furniture shops
The secret of IKEA's success
Business and commodity prices
Everyday higher prices
Bad publicity
Better to be reviled than ignored
Handheld digital games
Hand to hand combat
Gambling in Singapore
Sin galore
An online scandal in China
Alibaba and the 2,236 thieves
Very big ships
The Danish armada
Schumpeter
Uncorking enterprise

■Briefing
Companies and information
The leaky corporation

■Finance and Economics
Oil and the Arab world's unrest
Oil pressure rising
Buttonwood
Killing off the monster
Japanese banks
Home and away
Portugal under siege
The winter of living dangerously
The G20 process
Congregate, implicate, obfuscate
Credit ratings
Downgrading expectations
Entertainment insurance
Break a leg
Economics focus
The canon of economics

■Science & Technology
The twisted history of alchemy
Alchemists, ancient and modern
The Deep Carbon Observatory
Going underground
Healthy living
Mind and body
Collective behaviour
Follow my leader
The science of stuttering
Speech therapy

■Books & Arts
Italy
Avanti
Japan's dark underbelly
Doing justice
Odessa
Mutiny and melancholy
New thriller
Hard to shake off
A Gaza memoir
Bitter road
Hip-hop in Uganda
The dance in the night-time
Correction: “The New North”

■Obituary
Santi Santamaría

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Genetically modified crops
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Wall Street bonuses