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

■Leaders
Oil and the economy
The 2011 oil shock
The Libyan conundrum
Don't let him linger
Emerging-market giants
Tata sauce
The Republicans in search of a nominee
A rival for the president
The cycle of immigration
Second life
The perils of property
Home truths

■Letters
On political risk, revolution, voting, central banks, food, Canada, Indonesia, Chevron, strip malls, Joyce Carol Oates, the moon, history

■Briefing
Oil markets and Arab unrest
The price of fear

■United States
The Republicans
Who dares take him on?
Mormons in politics
When the saints come marching in
The budget
Continuing irresolution
The economy
Fits and starts
Murder in Arizona
Too far gone
Lexington
Libya and the Iraq syndrome

■The Americas
Bolivia's Evo Morales
The calle gets restive
Cuba and the internet
Wired, at last
Canada's lumber industry
If you go down to the woods
Correction: Brazil's fiscal policy

■Asia
Another political assassination in Pakistan
Things fall apart
America and Pakistan
Stuck with you
Jasmine stirrings in China
No awakening, but crush it anyway
China's rescue mission to Libya
Push factor
India's economy
Calling on the gods
Banyan
More black tea than jasmine

■Middle East & Africa
Libya
A civil war beckons
Libya's no-fly zone
The military balance
Revolution in Egypt and Tunisia
It's not over yet
Saudi Arabia
The royal house is rattled too
Yemen's turbulence
Time running out?
Protests in Iraq
Even a democracy is not immune
Oman
The sultanate suddenly stirs

■Europe
France's foreign-policy woes
Nicolas Sarkozy's diplomatic troubles
Germany's defence minister goes
Guttbye Guttenberg
Ireland's new government
Enda the party
Italy and immigration
Fear of foreigners
Albania, Kosovo and the EU
Albanian altercations
Turkey's Islamists
Erbakan's legacy
Charlemagne
Living with bad neighbours

■Britain
Bradford and its communities
Hope over hate
Financiers in Switzerland
Careful what you wish for
Defence policy
The emperor's clothes
Labour's foreign policy
Beyond the water's edge
High-speed rail
The need for speed
Broadcasting policy
Not ready for prime time
Standards in state schools
Must do better
Bagehot
Rage against the machine

■International
The United Nations and Libya
An unlikely unifier
Arctic resources
Now it's their turn
Politicians with PhDs
Doctors in the house

■A special report on property
Bricks and slaughter
Own goal
When the roof fell in
A world apart
Prime numbers
The old and the new
Building excitement
Between a rock and a living space
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Aerospace in Israel
IAI takes wing
Diageo's deals
Replenishing the drinks cabinet
Japanese electronics firms
The mighty, fallen
Tablet computers
The second coming
Sports-surfaces makers
Ready, set, grow
Asia's talent market
Locals first
Schumpeter
When stars go cuckoo

■Briefing
The Tata group
Out of India

■Finance and Economics
The euro area's debt crisis
Sovereign remedies
China's banks
Cognitive dissonance
Derivatives
Unlucky for some
Pay in the public sector
Sun, salaries and public servants
Sex and insurance
A boy-racer's dream?
The battle for Grameen
Halo, goodbye
Global house prices
Hong Kong phew-whee
Galleon Group
The charging of Rajat Gupta
Economics focus
Stagnation or inequality

■Science & Technology
Psychiatry
Therapist-free therapy
Intelligence testing
Who are you calling bird-brained?
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Breaking down the barrier
Climate change
Claws!

■Books & Arts
New model metropolises
Paradises on earth
A biography of Earth
Sacred mysteries
New fiction
Outlook swampy
How to do well
Getting inside the mind
Foreign policy
The gospel according to Mark
America's most renowned architect
Restoring Wright

■Obituary
Tom DeBaggio

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