■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Italy and the euro
On the edge
The British press
An empire at bay
The future of the Joint Strike Fighter
Coming up short
The Arab awakening, six months on
It can still come right
Carbon policy in Australia and Britain
Poles apart

■Letters
On debt, Republicans, ethanol, life expectancy, accountancy, Central America, legal fees, Rome, the space shuttle

■Briefing
The News International scandal
How to lose friends and alienate people
The political fallout in Britain
No end in sight
Questions for the Metropolitan Police
Cleaning the Yard

■United States
Food stamps
The struggle to eat
The transport bill
Rocky road
California’s criminal law
So bad, it could get better
Atlanta’s public schools
Low marks all round
Health-care reform
Competition or chaos?
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Hizzoner’s other cities
Lexington
Dicing with debt and the future
Clarification: Dave Camp

■The Americas
Panama’s economy
A Singapore for Central America?
Mexico and the United States
Revving up
Prisons in Venezuela
The fifth circle of hell

■Asia
Pushing for a carbon tax in Australia
An expensive gamble
Bombings in Mumbai
Terror, again
Assassination in southern Afghanistan
A roguish operator
Pakistan and America
In a sulk
Japan’s nuclear crisis
A question of trust
Political affray in Malaysia
Taken to the cleaners

■Middle East & Africa
The Arab awakening
Revolution spinning in the wind
Post-revolutionary Tunisia
Moving ahead
War in Libya
Closing in on Tripoli
Upheaval in Syria
No dialogue with the child-killers!

■Europe
France’s foreign policy
Showing the strain
German defence exports
Tanks for sale
The Turkish government
The lofty Mr Erdogan
Baltic economies
Estonian exceptionalism
Spain’s indignants
Europe’s most earnest protesters
Charlemagne
The euro’s real trouble
Correction: Kurdish basketball

■Britain
Reshaping the state
Little platoons on a slow march
Northern Ireland
The fire this time
Early books
Holy writ
Electricity market
The next generation
Public finances
The cost of ageing
Access to higher education
Knocked opportunities
Bagehot
Britain: shaken but not broken
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■International
Life in the global gutter
The popular press
Internet economies
Going local

■Business
The defence industry
The last manned fighter
Cybersecurity
Hacked off
Carrefour
Off its trolley
Innovation in Japan
Samurai go soft
China’s film industry
Kung fu propaganda

■Finance and Economics
The euro zone on the edge
The road to Rome
Europe’s policy options
Huge mess, untidy solutions
Buttonwood
Firefighting
China’s economy
Even splits
Cambodia’s new bourse
Calves and cubs
JPMorgan Chase
Dimon geezer
Economics focus
Cut or loose

■Science & Technology
Investigating the asteroids
Dawn’s early light
New transistors
Mechanical advantage
The final space-shuttle launch
Atlantis’s last hurrah
Animal behaviour (I)
Cold-blooded cunning
Animal behaviour (II)
Sexual appetite

■Books & Arts
Sex research in America
From here to eternity
Environmentalism in the Anthropocene
Earthly powers
Memoir of Kenya
Look ahead, not back
Camping
Guys and poles
Naples, a history
Tarantella napoletana
Remembering the evils of the past
Keeping the flame

■Obituary
Otto von Habsburg

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
Labour markets and immigration
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Global wealth management