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

■Leaders
China's economy
Bamboo capitalism
The euro and the European Union
Can Angela Merkel hold Europe together?
Chaotic Côte d'Ivoire
Don't forget it
Regional disparities
Gaponomics
Corruption in India
A rotten state

■Letters
On inflation, debt ratings, the Middle East, unions, history, Iran, the moon, road carriages, Alan Clark

■Briefing
The Arab uprisings
Democracy's hard spring
Arab economies
Throwing money at the street

■United States
Manufacturing
Rustbelt recovery
Disability payments
The elephant in the waiting-room
Public-sector unions
Time for second thoughts?
The Catholic church
Sins of the fathers
Ghosts in Kentucky
Genteel spirits
Education policy
School's out
American football
The owners take a punt
Lexington
Muslims and McCarthyism

■The Americas
Brazil's labour laws
Employer, beware
Measuring Brazil's economy
Statistics and lies
Honduras and its former president
Why a pariah may return
Managing cities
Bogotá's rise and fall

■Asia
Corruption in India
A million rupees now
China's security state
The truncheon budget
China's economic blueprint
Take five
Japan's political turmoil
Abandon hope?
Koreans in Japan
A foreigner in her own home
Australia's carbon debate
Flammable, not inert
Banyan
Carps among the Spratlys

■Middle East & Africa
The battle for Libya
The colonel fights back
Libya's fledgling alternative government
Who's in charge?
Iran's battered opposition
A leadership neutered
Turmoil in Côte d'Ivoire
Will the bad loser be squeezed out?
Happy but unequal Namibia
On we go
Nigeria's election line-up
A three-way contest

■Europe
The European Union and the euro zone
Outs and ins
The trial of Jacques Chirac
Silence in court
Silvio Berlusconi's future
Trials and tribulations
Press freedom in Turkey
A dangerous place to be a journalist
Europe's climate policy
Being ambitious
Estonian politics
Calm after storms
Charlemagne
The divisiveness pact

■Britain
Public-sector pensions
Tackling the intractable
Heathrow revisited
The mayor's new air war
Police pay
Not a happy lot
Foreign policy
Rookies abroad
Higher education
Reassuringly expensive
Capita and the deficit
Austerity's winner
The new census
The final count
Bagehot
Europe: it's back

■International
Reputation management
Glitzkrieg
How to start a nation
Trappings of state
Correction: Food, Libya and the UN

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Rocks on the menu
Monitor
Caught in a BEAR hug
Monitor
Do Not Attempt to steal
Monitor
Beam it up
Monitor
Towering beauty?
Monitor
Anonymous no more
Monitor
How to see round corners
Monitor
The right trousers
Monitor
Addicted? Really?
Monitor
Bright sparks
Difference engine
Renumbering the net
Nanopore sequencing
Towards the 15-minute genome
Stretchable electronics
A shapely future for circuits
Inside story
How illuminating
GPS jamming
No jam tomorrow
Brain scan
Betting on green
Offer to readers

■Business
Dell and Hewlett-Packard
Rebooting their systems
Electric cars
Roll on the posh electrics
The Renault “spying” affair
A new twist
Fashion for the masses
Global stretch
Italian businesses
Keeping it in the family
Schumpeter
Oh, Mr Porter

■Briefing
Entrepreneurship in China
Let a million flowers bloom

■Finance and Economics
Regional inequality
Internal affairs
The Galleon trial
Network effects
Buttonwood
Yale may not have the key
Unbanked Americans
Alienated
Sovereign-wealth funds
From Tripoli to Mayfair
The oil price
Held in reserve
Economics focus
The referee's an anchor

■Science & Technology
The aircraft of the future
Plane truths
Animal behaviour
Drip-feeding
Beer
Coming to a head

■Books & Arts
Western civilisation
A success that looks like failure
Futurology (1)
The new overlords
Futurology (2)
Suspension of disbelief
The birth of modern science
Last of the sorcerers
New fiction
Easy as one, two, three
The English language
Speaking daggers, innit?
Palazzo Farnese
The house that Paul built

■Obituary
Jane Russell

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Women in parliament
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Largest sovereign-wealth funds