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

■Leaders
The uprisings
Islam and the Arab revolutions
India and Pakistan
A willow branch
The risk of an American government shutdown
Time to stop play-acting and spit out the tea
Germany's political upset
A Green revolution
The euro zone's periphery
They’re bust. Admit it.

■Letters
On Libya, Japan, civil-service pay, the far right, regional inequalities, Ireland, Indonesia, education, the Republicans, Facebook

■Briefing
Islam and the Arab revolutions
A golden opportunity?

■United States
The civil war
Finally passing
The census
Minority report
The changing colour of cities
Black flight
Barack Obama's energy policy
Recycled
Arizona divided
A tale of two counties
Lexington
Togetherness in Libya

■The Americas
Peru's presidential election
The risk of throwing it all away
Latin American political dynasties
Kin selection

■Asia
Disaster in Japan
Plutonium and Mickey Mouse
China
Off the rails?
Myanmar
A long march
Australia
Strewth
Pakistan
A great deal of ruin in a nation
Banyan
The Indian exception

■Middle East & Africa
The battle for Libya
The colonel is not beaten yet
A government-in-waiting
Give us time, cash and arms
Crisis in Syria
Holding the fort
Iraq, Bahrain and the region
Sectarian bad blood
Tunisia
It could be normal
Côte d'Ivoire's civil war
Coming to a crunch
Zimbabwe
It gets worse again
Somalia's civil war
A bloody border

■Europe
Germany's victorious Greens
A greener future?
Germany's Free Democrats
Westerwelle wasted
French politics
Giving the UMP the hump
Ukraine's ex-president
Catching Kuchma
Spain and immigration
Rising rage
The insoluble Cyprus problem
Sad island story
Charlemagne
The handicapped union

■Britain
Public-service reform
Dave's amazing adventure
Street parties
Party like it's 1981
Anti-bribery laws
Palms ungreased
Policing violent protests
The battered blue line
Wiring up the Tube
Always on
Legal reform
No fee lunch
Preschool education
Learning to let go
Bagehot
Hey, big spenders

■International
Home births
Is there no place like home?
Digital identities
Trolling for your soul

■Business
Japan and the global supply chain
Broken links
BP's Russian troubles
Dudley do-wrong
Businesses and insurance
How to become politics-proof
Technology firms and health care
Heads in the cloud
Online media distribution
Raging bulls
The tobacco industry
The last gasp
Schumpeter
I, robot-manager

■Briefing
Resistance to antibiotics
The spread of superbugs

■Finance and Economics
Petri-dish economies
Everybody needs good neighbours
Buttonwood
Liquidity and lottery tickets
European monetary policy
Trigger-happy
Spanish banks
Hard landing
JFK and quantitative easing
Twisted thinking
Lehman's mini-bonds
The good inside the bad
Berkshire Hathaway
Unexpected loss
Economics focus
Cash machines
Marjorie Deane internships

■Science & Technology
Military strategy
Cry havoc! And let slip the maths of war
Status displays
I've got you labelled
Materials science
Stronger when stricken
Genetics and evolution
Some chicken. Some neck…

■Books & Arts
Theories of history
The good, the great and the gelded
Otto von Bismarck
Hard to be king under Bismarck
British politics
Not everybody's cup of tea
Travel in Tibet
In pursuit of understanding
Morality and the brain
Medical diagnosis of malfeasance
Mexican documentary
The uglier face of justice

■Obituary
Elizabeth Taylor

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Natural and man-made disasters
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Asylum-seekers