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■The world this week
Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Markets
Bubble warning
Canada's Parliament
Harper goes prorogue
Iran
Time for tougher sanctions
Hispanics in America
Reshaping politics
Labels and categories
A menagerie of monikers

■Letters
On immigration, claret, Canada, rice, e-readers, zombies, language

■Briefing
Iran and its region
A supreme leader at bay
Israel and Iran
The gathering storm

■United States
Latinos and American politics
Power in numbers
Barack Obama and terrorism
Another war president, after all
Trouble for the Democrats
Chicken run
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
That 1930s show
Aviation and the South
Advantage Dixie
American labour law
Quorum quibbles
The Trans-Texas Corridor
Miles to go
Restoring Cleveland
The hopeful laundry
Lexington
Integrated, but irked

■The Americas
Canada without Parliament
Halted in mid-debate
Organised crime in Mexico
Outsmarted by Sinaloa
A Mexican cult
Death in holy orders
Lula and the generals
Don't look back
Argentina's bank grab
The reserves, or your job

■Asia
Afghanistan's political mess
Parliamentary pitfalls
Another atrocity in Pakistan
Japan's finance minister resigns
Bad blood
Water pricing in China
Bottling it
The China-ASEAN free-trade agreement
Ajar for business
Private armies in the Philippines
Guns and goons
Kyrgyzstan's battered press
Hard landing
Banyan
From the charm to the offensive

■Middle East & Africa
Somalia's pirates
A long war of the waters
Somalia's World Cup singer
Let my people stay
Mixing sexes in Saudi Arabia
Not so terrible after all?
Polygamy in South Africa
A president who promotes tradition
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■Europe
“Eastern Europe”
Wrongly labelled
Bulgaria's new leadership
Foot in mouth
Icelandic finance
Is it a blizzard?
Goats in the Netherlands
Caprine contagion
The future of Catalonia
Of bulls and ballots
Italian justice
Shameful honour
Charlemagne
Old Spanish practices

■Britain
The prospects for recovery
Clambering out of the hole
The Conservative campaign begins
Faulty first steps
The Royal Society
The establishment of science
Green jobs
Back to the City [Britain only]
University-entrance requirements
Shoot for the stars [Britain only]
Travel-payment woes
E-Clear as mud [Britain only]
Bagehot
Midwinter madness

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■International
Innovation in global health
A spoonful of ingenuity
Universities and Islam
Hearts, minds and Mecca

■Business
Nokia tries to reinvent itself
Bears at the door
Hollywood and the internet
Coming soon
America's census and business
A count that counts
Japan Airlines' clouded future
On a wing and a rumour
Novartis's bid for Alcon
In the eye
Germany's solar subsidies
Fed up
The crowded aluminium business
Hard metal
Schumpeter
Making a success of failure

■Briefing
Asset markets
The danger of the bounce
Correction: Women in the workforce

■Finance and Economics
China's export prospects
Fear of the dragon
Buttonwood
Voting away your debts
Alternative mutual funds
The feeling is mutual
The jobs market for economists
Applied thinking
American Express
Charge!
Hong Kong as a financial centre
Flagrant harbour
Economics focus
Worth a hill of soyabeans

■Science & Technology
Climate change
No hiding place?
Planet hunting
Looking for life in the shadows
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Seconds out
Influenza and wildlife
Mix and match

■Books & Arts
Research universities
Powerhouses
Henry Luce
American dreamer
18th-century cello music
Curves and waves
Albert Camus, 50 years on
Prince of the absurd
Post-American power
Short and thin
New film
Flying high

■Obituary
Gus Dur

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
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The Economist poll of forecasters, January averages
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Markets
Stockmarkets

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■Leaders
Women and work
We did it!
Colombia's presidential non-campaign
Time to enter history
Iran in turmoil
The beginning of the end?
Climate change
Planet B
Japan's two lost decades
An end to the Japanese lesson

■Letters
On carbon taxes, public-sector workers, Britain, talent, violins

■Briefing
Waziristan
The last frontier
Emerging markets and recession
Counting their blessings

■United States
America, al-Qaeda and home-made bombs
From shoes to soft drinks to underpants
House prices and mobility
Off the road
Asian carp advance on Chicago
The invaders
Tourism in Hawaii
Hoping for an Obama effect
The politics of rum
Sir Henry's legacy
Health reform
The home stretch

■The Americas
Álvaro Uribe's Colombia
Not yet the promised land
Reforming Canada's Senate
Adapt or die

■Asia
Harsh justice in China
Don't mess with us
Taiwan and China
Strait talking
Laotian Hmong refugees in Thailand
Shown the door
Sri Lanka's displaced Tamils
A market-based solution
Pakistan's embattled president
Peccavi

■Middle East & Africa
Iran's turmoil
Growing signs of desperation
Yemen's multiple wars
A growing worry for the West
Ghana and its oil
Dangerously hopeful
East Africa's common market
It really may happen
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■Europe
Germany's fractious government
Angela Merkel's wobbly restart
Turkey and its generals
These cursed plots
The Balkans and the European Union
Lightening gloom?
An autonomous Vojvodina
Exit strategy

■Britain
The election campaign
Under starter's orders
The economy and the election
The figures that will count
Extraditions to Poland
Wanted, for chicken rustling
English libel law
Taking away the welcome mat

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■International
Climate change after Copenhagen
China's thing about numbers
Agriculture and climate change
Why farms may be the new forests

■Business
Government and business in France
Dirigisme de rigueur
Pay-TV in emerging markets
Finding El Dorado
Taser diversifies its arsenal
Proto-RoboCop
Clean technology after Copenhagen
Waiting for a green light
KEPCO wins a nuclear contract
Atomic dawn
Schumpeter
Womenomics

■Briefing
Women in the workforce
Female power
Mobile-phone culture
The Apparatgeist calls

■Finance and Economics
Deflation in Japan
To lose one decade may be misfortune...
Buttonwood
Paying the price
Global house prices
Ratio rentals
Economics focus
New-year irresolution

■Science & Technology
Renewable energy
The seat of power
New sources of rubber
Blow out
Flood defences
Dambusterbusters
Genetics
Monogamouse

■Books & Arts
A history of the world in 100 objects
Creative impulses
The Berlin airlift
Flying coal
Water
Through the aqueous humour
Biography
Another field

■Obituary
Oral Roberts

■Economic and Financial Indicators
Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
GDP growth forecasts, 2010, %
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Mergers and acquisitions

■The world this year
The world this year
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■Leaders
The world economy
The Great Stabilisation
Greece and the euro
Athenian dances
Democracy in China
Control freaks
London as a financial centre
The real windfall
Chile's presidential election
Small earthquake hurts centre-left

■Letters
On Honduras, Switzerland, food, class politics, Mike Huckabee, words, Belgium

■United States
Direct democracy
The tyranny of the majority
America's foreign policy
Is there an Obama doctrine?
The Guantánamo detainees
Ready and willing
Houston's new mayor
Leading lady
Lexington
Bah, humbug

■The Americas
Chile's presidential election
Piñera flies the flag
Canada's criminal-justice policy
Prisoners of politics
Security in Colombia
Calling freedom

■Asia
Democracy, China and the Communist Party
Big surprise
Indian states
Divide but not rule?
Kazakhstan and the OSCE
The sultan takes over
Japan and China
The shogun and the emperor
Banyan
Currency contortions

■Middle East & Africa
Zimbabwe's unity government
Still adored
Sudanese politics
Heading towards independence
Mohamed ElBaradei
From fission to Pharaoh?
Iran's nuclear programme
A thousand and one excuses
A legal spat between Israel and Britain
Welcome to London

■Europe
Greece's budget crisis
Papandreou tries to prop up the pillars
Ukraine's predicament
Oranges are not the only fruit
Turkey and the Kurds
Hopes blown away
Silvio Berlusconi under attack
A prime minister struck
France's school curriculum
La fin de l'histoire
Charlemagne
Too many cooks

■Britain
British Airways
Falling star
Defence spending
The war bill comes due
Science spending
No more booms, just bust
18th-century pornography
Vintage voyeurism
Bagehot
Heroes of New Labour

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■International
Religious freedom
Too many chains
Climate change and forests
Touch wood

■Christmas Specials
The idea of progress
Onwards and upwards
A tragedy
Gordon Rex
Farewell to WW1
From memory to history
Violin-making
Older and richer
From tree to concert hall
The sweet sound of nightingales
Filth
The joy of dirt
Going to America
A Ponzi scheme that works
Detroit's emptiness
The art of abandonment
Socrates in America
Arguing to death
Being foreign
The others
Would-be migrants
Greener grass
The Holy Land
Where piety meets power
Rice in Japan
You are what you eat
The Amur River
The Amur's siren song
Politeness
Hi there
Harry Potter
The Harry Potter economy
Claret and London
Hedonism and claret
Difficult languages
Tongue twisters
Newspapers and technology
Network effects

■Business
Tax reform in India
Trickle through
Technology firms and antitrust
Here we go again
Spain's El Gordo lottery
Gamblers united
Exxon Mobil buys XTO Energy
Unconventional
Maiden flights for Boeing and Airbus
Upwards and onwards
Schumpeter
The silence of Mammon

■Finance and Economics
Dubai's debt cliffhanger
A second life
Financial centres
Foul-weather friends
Switzerland as a financial centre
Alpine ambitions
America's megabanks
Goodbye, or see you again?
Economics focus
Paul Samuelson

■Science & Technology
Marine archaeology
Davy Jones's lock-up
Reproductive biology
Girls on top
HIV microbicides
Dashed hopes
The search for dark matter
An early Christmas present?

■Books & Arts
An evolutionary biologist on religion
Spirit level
Foreign aid
Trap or treat
Human identity
An elusive illusion
Zombie films
Invasion of the living dead

■Obituary
Yegor Gaidar

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Overview
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
World GDP
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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Foreign students in America

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Politics this week
Business this week
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■Leaders
Struggling giants
Toyota slips up
Britain's public finances
Class warrior
Nepal's floundering peace
Back to the brink
The sharp end of the credit crisis
Small business, big problem
Innovation
The military-consumer complex

■Letters
On scepticism about climate change, Africa's displaced people, Brazil and China, agriculture, Franco Modigliani, Czechoslovakia, Scotland, anagrams

■Briefing
National Health Service
After the gold rush

■United States
Public-sector unions
Welcome to the real world
Health-care reform
Getting to 60
Banks and small businesses
For want of a loan
America in the world
Pay any price? Pull the other one
The Texas governor's race
White v right
George Bush speaks
The motivator
Lexington
Softly softly, charming Huckabee

■The Americas
Bolivia's presidential election
The explosive apex of Evo's power
Banking in Venezuela
Fall of the Boligarchs
Canada's Nisga'a
Home-owning nation
Paraguay's president
Loose-lipped Lugo
The Latinobarómetro poll
A slow maturing of democracy

■Asia
Turkmenistan's plight
Burning sands and pipe-dreams
Nepal's tenuous peace
Striking out
Bangladesh makes friends with India
Trying to be good neighbours
Japan's new government
Three's a crowd
Thailand's restive south and Malaysia
The trouble in between
Violence in Mindanao
A martial plan?
Banyan
Come together

■Middle East & Africa
Iran's resilient opposition
The regime's ramparts are shaky
Iraqi bombings
What difference do they make?
Terrorism in Somalia
Ever more atrocious
Iraq and alcohol
The battle for booze
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■Europe
Cyprus, Turkey and the European Union
A Mediterranean maelstrom
Cyprus's history
Aphrodite's troubled island
Ireland's budget
Hard times
German education reforms
The angst in Hamburg
Romania's presidential election
Against all odds
The European Union and Serbia
A slow march to Europe
Charlemagne
Lessons from “The Leopard”

■Britain
Labour's pre-budget report
Drawing up the battle lines
Efficiency savings in government
Fat-fighters
Bankers' pay
Cui bono?
Expanding Heathrow airport
Clearer skies?
Terrorism in Northern Ireland
Resurgent [Britain only]
Betting on the horses
Handicap hurdle [Britain only]
Student finance
Uniformly shabby [Britain only]
Bagehot
Class war III

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■International
The Copenhagen climate talks
Filthy lucre fouls the air
Refugees and cities
Tents come down
The Red Cross movement
How much evil can you not see?
Award: Natasha Loder

■Technology Quarterly
Monitor
Greenery on the march
Monitor
Glue bones
Monitor
Electrical potential
Monitor
Making ink bulletproof
Monitor
Who pays for the pipes?
Monitor
A question of character
Monitor
Better ways to collaborate
Monitor
And the winners were...
Rational consumer
Powering the drive
New displays for e-readers
Read all about it
Inside story
Nuclear's next generation
Agricultural robots
Fields of automation
Surgery using sound and light
Son et lumière meets surgery
Brain scan
Beyond the ether
Offer to readers

■Business
Corporate reform in America
A chill in the boardroom
Panettone season arrives
A piece of cake
Roche digests Genentech
Back to the lab
Indonesia's coal rush
Sooty success
New ties for VW, GM and Peugeot Citroën
Asian alliances
Magazines take on Amazon
A Hulu for print
New strategies at AOL and Yahoo!
Back into the fray
Schumpeter
Talent on tap

■Briefing
Toyota
Losing its shine

■Finance and Economics
Europe's corporate credit crunch
Muck in the fuel pipe
Buttonwood
When good news is bad news
The peak-oil debate
2020 vision
Banks and sovereign-wealth funds
Falling knives
Sovereign-debt worries
Rate and see
America's municipal-bond market
State of pay
Economics focus
Crash and carry

■Science & Technology
Military use of consumer technology
War games
Virtual autopsies
A cut from CSI
Psychology
Alone in the crowd
Commercial space flight
A real starship called Enterprise

■Books & Arts
War in the Caucasus
A small corner, very bloody
Islam in France
Still them and us
France and the Ottomans
When we and they were friends
The future of the Arctic
The bleakest outlook in the world
Post-war artists
Man and master
“Race” on Broadway
Toying with taboos
Correction: Lee Daniels and William Trevor

■Obituary
Charis Wilson

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Merchant ships
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
China's stockmarket
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■Leaders
The Copenhagen Summit
Stopping climate change
Diplomacy runs out with Iran
Thank you, Mr Putin and Mr Hu
The surge in Afghanistan
The perils of keeping everybody happy
Risk after Dubai
When sovereign doesn't mean safe
Latin America
Honduras defies the world
Our favourite prime minister
Time to say addio

■Letters
On America's budget deficit, climate change, Russia, Germany, file-sharing, companies, Congo, hummus and peace, voting rights

■Briefing
Nuclear proliferation
An Iranian nuclear bomb, or the bombing of Iran?
The Panama Canal
A plan to unlock prosperity

■United States
The jobs summit
Any ideas?
Black unemployment
Not so colour-blind
State finances
Keynes in reverse
Mortgage repayments
Time to fold
Rows over the Nativity
No crib for a bed
Mexico and America
Gently does it
Lexington
Obama, the worried warrior

■The Americas
Honduras's presidential election
Voting to move onwards and upwards
Colombia and the United States
Off base

■Asia
The surge in Afghanistan
The beginning or the end?
India's recovering economy
Vroom, vroom
India and climate-change negotiations
Back to basics
Australia's emissions-trading row
Cap, trade and block
North Korea's currency grab
No wonder
Battling deflation in Japan
Waking up to reality
Banyan
The world's forgotten fair

■Middle East & Africa
Iraq and the Kirkuk conundrum
A hint of harmony, at last
Diplomacy between Israel and Palestine
Bluff and bargain
Land reform in South Africa
Hurry up
Equatorial Guinea's election
Oh we love you so
Rwanda's laptop revolution
Upgrading the children

■Europe
Italy's troubled prime minister
Under attack from all sides
The new European Commission
The battle of Barroso
Terrorism in Russia
Bombings away
Turkey and the West
Testy Erdogan
Greater Paris
Wider still and wider
Denmark hosts the world
Rasmussen III in the spotlight
Charlemagne
The Swiss in the middle

■Britain
Commercial-property blues
Lenders' dilemma
The new Iraq war inquiry
Looking back in anger
Newspapers online
The promiscuity problem
Attitudes to immigration
This sceptical isle
Hospital care
Dismal dispatch from the wards [Britain only]
Secret evidence on drugs policy
Inconvenient truths [Britain only]
Standards in schools
An unacceptable term's work [Britain only]
Bagehot
The tiger under the table

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■International
Islam and Switzerland
The return of the nativists
Match-fixing in football
Own goals

■A special report on climate change and the carbon economy
Getting warmer
Is it worth it?
The green slump
Good policy, and bad
Vampires on a diet
Cap and tirade
Who cares?
A long game
Closing the gaps
What needs to change
Unpacking the problem
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
The restructuring of Rusal
Saving the oligarchs
A Chinese wind-power IPO
Puffed up
Carbon-management software
Heat count
The hunt for shale gas in Europe
Bubbling under
A new boss for General Motors
Fritzkrieg
Vivendi mulls its future
Adieu, Hollywood
Brazil's sugar mergers
Calorific value
Schumpeter
The rise of the hybrid company

■Briefing
The repercussions of Dubai
Dishdashed
Gulf financial centres
Hub thumping
Gulf geopolitics
Come-uppance but little contagion

■Finance and Economics
Banks and information technology
Silo but deadly
Buttonwood
Ahead of the curve
Making insurers safer
Learning lessons
Bank of America's TARP repayment
Ken's last act
Economics focus
Default lines

■Science & Technology
Climate change
What lies beneath
More climate change
Southern bellwether
Efficient aviation
V for victory
Electricity generation
No pinch of salt

■Books & Arts
Books of the Year
Page-turners
Books by Economist writers in 2009
What we wrote

■Obituary
Samak Sundaravej

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The Economist poll of forecasters, December averages
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
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Central-bank staff

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■Leaders
Barack Obama's foreign policy
The quiet American
Europe's motley leaders
Behold, two mediocre mice
Deflation in Japan
The curse of defeatism
The future of entertainment
Middle-class struggle
Climate change
A heated debate

■Letters
On Iraq, Afghanistan, the Conservatives and Europe, gift certificates, Israel, drugs, economics, conjunctions

■Briefing
Pakistan's crises
Front line against the Taliban

■United States
The making of the president's foreign policy
The decider
Health-care reform
The beginning of the end
Climate change
It's off to Denmark we go
Republican governors
A gang of reds
Camden's crisis
Ungovernable?
The Federal Reserve under attack
Poked by pitchforks
Neo-Nazis in Montana
A bunch of losers
Lexington
Loathing Joe Lieberman

■The Americas
Iran and Latin America
Ayatollahs in the backyard
Canada in Afghanistan
Something to hide?
Venezuela's anti-capitalist cars
Wheels of revolution

■Asia
The mosque at Ayodhya
A destructive legacy
Political trials in Bangladesh
The trials of Sheikh Hasina
Sri Lanka's Tamil minority
The power of the ballot
Grand projects in South Korea
Many rivers to cross
China's car market
Exhaust fumes and mirrors
Indonesia's anti-corruption commission
The bland leading the blind
The Philippines' presidential wannabes
Looking for a hero
The politics of violence
Massacre in Mindanao
Banyan
Suffragette city

■Middle East & Africa
Syria
Has it won?
Iraq, Iran, America and The Economist
Were we wrong?
Algeria versus Egypt
Not just a game of football
Strife in eastern Congo
Not quite as bloody as before
Kidnapping in Nigeria
Go for the locals
Namibia's election
Anyone else worth considering?

■Europe
Russian modernisation
Dmitry Medvedev's building project
Spain's economic troubles
Unsustainable
German linguistic correctness
The du und du waltz
Kosovo and Serbia
See you in court
America, NATO and eastern Europe
Disquiet on the eastern front
Charlemagne
We are all Belgians now

■Britain
The religious influence in politics
Missionary positions
Anglo-Catholicism
The joys and perils of flying high
Bank rescues
Bigger than you thought
Bank charges
Knockout
A venture fund for innovation
A taxpayer punt [Britain only]
Britain's woman in Brussels
Gordon's angel [Britain only]
Scotland's minority government
Lessons from a hung parliament [Britain only]
Bagehot
Year zero

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■International
The Commonwealth
Wider still and weaker?
Fighting poverty in emerging markets
The gloves go on

■A special report on the art market
Suspended animation
The world's biggest saleroom
New or secondhand?
How to make art history
The Pop master's highs and lows
Inflatable investments
Treasures reclaimed
A whole new world
Sources and acknowledgments
Offer to readers

■Business
Retail v e-tail in America
Bleak Friday
Bing tries to sign up newspapers
Web-wide war
Eni defies its critics
Another Roman empire
The problem with dual-class shares
More equal than others
Reliance bids for LyondellBasell
A reliable catalyst
PPR spins off CFAO
Out of Africa
MAN, VW and Scania
MAN overboard
Sands China's public offering
A roll of the dice
Schumpeter
Brand royalty

■Briefing
Media
A world of hits

■Finance and Economics
Dubai's debt
Standing still but still standing
Tackling Japan's debt
A load to bear
Parallels between Japan and the West
Same chords, different tune
Pension planning
The retiree's autopilot
Buttonwood
A developing bull market
German banking
Bail-out poker
China's latest commodity boom
The price also stinks
Economics focus
Systems failure

■Science & Technology
Climate change
Mail-strom
Environment
A hill of beans
The Large Hadron Collider
Big is back
Synthetic biology
Your plastic pal

■Books & Arts
European fiction
Spanish eyes
The mystery of money
Both sides of the coin
The Irish bust
Learning to make do and mend
The human brain
Right and left
England's war with France
Once more unto the breach
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Seeing is believing

■Obituary
Earl Cooley

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■Leaders
The deficit problem
Dealing with America's fiscal hole
Food and agriculture
How to feed the world
Barack Obama in Asia
The Pacific (and pussyfooting) president
The end of the Labour government
Last, do no harm
Fund managers' pay
A defective directive

■Letters
On fertility, Colombia, climate change, food, the Berlin Wall, zombies, enterprise

■Briefing
America's fiscal deficit
Stemming the tide
The pros and cons of VAT
A last resort

■United States
America, China and climate change
Let's agree to agree
Barack Obama and Afghanistan
Waiting (and waiting) for a plan
After Guantánamo
Trials to come
Improving education
What to teach?
The New Orleans mayor's race
The job almost no one wants
Maine's cod
Something new
Lexington
Sarah Palin reloads

■The Americas
Mexico's economy
A different kind of recession
Cuba and the United States
Resistant to sticks and carrots
British Columbia's salmon
Socked
Peru and Brazil
Messing around with dams

■Asia
Barack Obama in Asia
Scaling the Asian wall
Afghanistan's anti-corruption drive
Taming the mafia state
Hong Kong's deferred democracy
Softly, softly
Australia's child-migration horror
Better late than never
Sri Lanka's retired army chief
General intentions
A hero for the Philippines
The thriller for Manila
Banyan
Land of Eastern promise

■Middle East & Africa
Yemen's war
Pity those caught in the middle
Congo's constitution
Democracy under threat
Sierra Leone's corruption problem
A mortal enemy
Hope and worry in Zambia
Less poor, less free

■Europe
Europe's public finances
Weighed down
Greek public finances
Arithmetic lesson
Germany's Social Democrats
Archangel Gabriel takes the burden
Municipal politics in France
The mayors' revolt
Slovakia's murky politics
Heading south
History of Italian fascism
Not just Hitler's fool
Turkey's phone-tapping scandal
Who's on the phone?
Charlemagne
A new balance in Europe
Correction: Czech politics

■Britain
Gordon Brown's next six months
The great calculating machine
Reforming financial regulation
A one-trick bill
University students abroad
And is there honey still for tea?
Municipal Wi-Fi
Metro-net
The Conservatives' media policy
Nice guys may finish first [Britain only]
Financing Scottish start-ups
Better up north [Britain only]
Lending to small companies
Now, worry about the upturn [Britain only]
Bagehot
I know my rights

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■International
Feeding the world
If words were food, nobody would go hungry
Food markets
How to store and sell more stuff

■Business
EDF
Nuclear contamination
A spat among professional networks
Class war
The psychology of warranties
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Talk is cheap
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The rot spreads
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Remembering Drucker
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Monsanto
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Unfixable?
Canada's prime minister
Home thoughts from abroad

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Japan's government
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Tactical retreat?
Thaksin Shinawatra and Hun Sen
A new way to annoy a neighbour
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A PR problem
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Nationalisation rides again
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An emotive issue
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Hope for Zanzibar
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Don’t ask

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Germany's foreign policy
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Peace in sight?
Islamic finance in France
Sharia calling
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Cracked up
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Right on down
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A birth dearth
Charlemagne
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Desperate measures
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Land of the setting sun
Schumpeter
The cult of the faceless boss

■Briefing
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Over the counter, out of sight
Correction: Japan's technology champions

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The world economy
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Holy shit!
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Athlete's foot
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How to exterminate a dinosaur

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The history of the Arabic-speaking peoples
A political lesson
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Market idol
Google
Facing the frenemy
Philip Roth's new novel
The crabbiness is all
Hollywood
The crown prince of Culver City
Bauhaus
The coast of Utopia
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A globe redrawn
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Money can't buy you love
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You're welcome
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Losing power
Chile's Mapuches
The people and the land

■Asia
Afghanistan's “re-elected” president
Karzai's tattered victory
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To which victor the spoils?
Bangladesh and Myanmar
Fenced in
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The gecko bites back
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Not free to starve
Banyan
Having it both ways

■Middle East & Africa
The flagging peace process
Is Israel too strong for Barack Obama?
Iraq's coming election
The region's liveliest system
Baghdad's Green Zone goes dry
Stop that naughty Western habit
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A bloody border
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Green November
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Don't let it be contagious

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Eastern Europe's economic woes
Down in the dumps
The euro-area economy
Recovery, of sorts
Russia and Britain
Frozen diplomacy
The Chirac trial
Liberty, equality, no impunity
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Conviction time
Charlemagne
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Blinded by science
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Well met by clublight
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Foreign investors in Hungary
Less welcome
Berkshire Hathaway buys BNSF
Express from Omaha
Gift certificates get a makeover
The gift that gives back
Video games move online
A giant sucking sound
Schumpeter
Food fight

■Briefing
Japan's technology champions
Invisible but indispensable

■Finance and Economics
Europe's troubled banks
The muscles from Brussels
Contingent capital
CoCo nuts
Hong Kong's property market
Flat out
Buttonwood
Exit, followed by a bear
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The bust that worked
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Faring well
India's gold purchase
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Harvest moon
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Seeding the seeds
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For peat's sake, stop

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The fall of Communism
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Hope eternal
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Terrible man, celebrated writer
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A joyless recovery
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Obama and the unions
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J Street puts a foot in the door
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Exit Bratton
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One year of The One

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Colombia's paramilitaries
Militias march again
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Shades of grey
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Settling up
Canada and the monarchy
Heir not so apparent?

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Afghanistan's bloody election
An election under siege
Terrorism in Pakistan
A hostile ally
China's navy off Somalia
Cash and carry
South-East Asian summitry
Distant dreams
Japan's samurai culture
They need another hero
Banyan
Himalayan histrionics

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Turkey and the Middle East
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Riots in Jerusalem
Just like old times?
Tunisia's durable president
One-man show
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No end in sight
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Selective rescue

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Germany
Angela's new team claims its seats...
French corruption scandals
Peering into the murk
Italy's opposition
Into the ring against Silvio
Baltic economies
The Estonian exception
Spain's political scandals
The problem with Don Vito's friends
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Charlemagne
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Reforming the centralised state
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A prisoner seeks the vote
Conviction politics
Reshaping British banking
Rock carving
Tony Blair for Brussels
El Presidente
The Bank of England's next step
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The world's ailing postal services
Dead letter
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Airline alliances and antitrust
All together now
America's struggling newspapers
Big is best
Yum! Brands' new corporate culture
Taking the hill less climbed
Elections to American boards
Sinecures in peril
Geely closes in on Volvo
On a roll
Schumpeter
Fish out of water

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Nestlé
The unrepentant chocolatier

■Finance and Economics
India and capital flows
A world apart
Buttonwood
Bribing the markets
ING breaks up
Slimming cures
Dubai's debt mountain
Dredging the debt
The outlook for private equity
Sticking-plasters of the universe
Economics focus
Buffer warren

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Nutrition and health
Food, glorious food
Nutrition
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Red rags
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Current thinking
NASA's new rocket
The first (and last?) flight of Ares

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The story of Vincent van Gogh
An artist making art
Wall Street's crisis
Book of revelations
Islam and the West
Those pesky cartoons
A biography of Jacques Cousteau
A creature of the shallows
Swedish crime fiction
Don't mess with her
New York theatres
Leaner the better

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The mystery behind Mujica's mask

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Afghanistan's permanent election
Seconds out, round two
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There they go again
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In that dawn
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Looking for a loophole
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Like the last lot
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Stay the bloody hell where you are
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Hell on Earth

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Nigeria's hopeful amnesty
A chance to end the Delta rebellion
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Almost expunged
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Diamonds are not for ever
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Jangling nerves
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Deal or no deal?

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France, Germany and the European Union
Future dreaming
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Shut up or be sued
Turkey and the Kurds
Return of the natives
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Injudicious
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Better troublesome than dull
Worries over Bosnia
Balkan scheming
Charlemagne
A single-market celebration

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On the edge
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Splitting up banks
Too big to bail out
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Foreign aid in a recession
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Always get your man
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Ethanol tanks
Dirty elections
To the rigger the spoils

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A wary respect
Round and round it goes
Tug-of-car
The price of cleanliness
Overkill
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The rich scent of freedom
A dragon of many colours
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The information-technology industry revives
Back to the circuit board
Domestic outsourcing in India
Bittersweet synergy
Russia raises taxes on beer
Sin-tax error
China and the market for iron ore
Testing their metal
The rise of thin-film solar power
Leaner and cheaper
Schumpeter
The three habits...

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America's public debt
Tomorrow's burden

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Dollar depreciation
Denial or acceptance
Buttonwood
Squaring the circle
The Galleon affair
All at sea
America's consumer-protection bill
Sizzling away
American banks
The pyramid principle
Venture capital in China
To infinity and beyond
Nigeria's banking clean-up
Invasive surgery
Economics focus
E pluribus tunum
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Mass extinctions
I am become Death, destroyer of worlds
Lunar landers
Space hopper
A novel form of fusion power
Psst, kapow!
New ideas for global health
A challenge, eh?

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The life and views of Ayn Rand
Capitalism's martyred hero
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Gory glamour
The multilateral trade talks
Travails of trade
British military history
Paterfamilias Monty
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Celestial sacrifice
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Afghanistan and Pakistan
Obama's faltering war
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The “mini mid-terms”
Republicans resurgent
Health reform takes a step forward
But don't ask how much it costs
Cap-and-trade
The road to 60
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Brotherly love
Gays and hate crimes
Small comfort
Statewatch: Louisiana
After the storm
Lexington
To surge or not to surge

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Brazil's recovering economy
Juggling technocrats and party hats
Colombia's resilient economy
No recession here
Mexico's monopolies
Power to the people
Trade unions in Canada
All struck out
Ecuador's president
Family fallout

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Thailand's former prime minister
Exile and the kingdom
China's private coalmines
The pendulum swings against the pit
Vietnam's crackdown on dissent
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Starry-eyed
Banyan
History wars

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South Africa and corruption
He promises a big clean-up
China and Africa
Don't worry about killing people
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Coups can still pay
Palestinian farmers
Not much of an olive branch
Education in the Arab world
Laggards trying to catch up
Egypt and the veil
No shame in showing your face

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Sarkozy and morality
We're in it up to here
German politics
Colours of Jamaica
Romania's government
Progress, of a sort and at a price
Russia
Soviet words and deeds
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Charlemagne
Where there's a will there's a row

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Barbra Streisand strikes again
Postal strike
On the brink
City jobs
After the cull
Expenses scandal redux
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Selling public property
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A bit better
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Bangkok blues
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A question of sex

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Selling foreign goods in China
Impenetrable
Business news in China
Bad advertisement
Renault's electric-car gamble
Mr Ghosn bets the company
American courts ponder “honest service”
Are you being served?
Italy's business clusters
Sinking together
The fight for GVT
Call options
Business schools in the recession
Resilient wreckers
Schumpeter
Someone to watch over them
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■Briefing
Cloud computing
Clash of the clouds

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Credit in America
Slim pickings, no appetite
Buttonwood
Banking on the banks
Citigroup sells Phibro
Pandit and the playthings
Emotions and investing
Gutted instinct
Derivatives regulation
Pretty nitty-gritty
Macrofinance in Bangladesh
Call of the market
Unconventional monetary policy
Loose thinking
Bruce Wasserstein
Bidding farewell
Economics focus
Reality bites

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The rise of epigenomics
Methylated spirits
Not watching the Earth from space
Satellites in the alphabet soup
Conservation and cookery
Eat for the ecosystem
Through-the-wall vision
Looking beyond
The evolution of flying reptiles
A patchwork quilt

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British history
England's revolution
Cold-war history
Sorcerers and apprentices
Prostitution in Georgian London
Harlot's progress
New novel about ancient Rome
Pride and fall
Robert Frank's photographs
A sad poem of American life
The Cape Town Opera on tour
I loves you, Porgy

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Managing banks
It wasn't me

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The president's rocky fortnight
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Chicago's Olympic bid
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The economy's stumble
Air pocket or second dip?
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Come fry with me
The California governor's race
Early and heated
Defending Manhattan
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Teenage pregnancies
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Youngstown, Ohio
A young town again
Lexington
Of debt and deadbeats

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Cuba's economy
The demise of the free lunch
Brazil and the Olympics
Rio's expensive new rings
Easter Island
Rapa Nui déjà vu
Mercedes Sosa
A political voice

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China, North Korea and its nukes
Smile, please
A campaign-finance scandal in Japan
Twinkle-toes in trouble
Indonesia's anti-corruption commission
Mr Clean's battered broom
Chinese history textbooks
The fragility of truth
Afghanistan's fraudulent election
Disunited nations
Singapore's sand shortage
The hourglass effect
Banyan
Shorts and all

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The Palestinians and the Goldstone report
Stranded between America and the street
The Muslim Brothers
Appease or oppose?
Talking to nuclear Iran
Measuring progress
Kenyan politics
Rebuilding at a crawl

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Silvio Berlusconi's troubles
Justice can be ever so inconvenient
Greece's election
Papandreou again
Suicide in France
Bonjour tristesse
Turkey and Armenia
Bones to pick
Football and Poland's infrastructure
Shots on goal
Charlemagne
The presidency stakes

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The Conservative Party conference
You've never had it so bad
Raising the state-pension age
Early riser
Politics and the British army
A goat with medals
Northern Ireland's peace process
Wobbling again
Air pollution
Taken to the cleaners [Britain only]
University students from abroad
Ivory fortresses [Britain only]
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Migration and development
The aid workers who really help
Micronutrients
A no-brainer
Islam
A shifting locus
The Arctic
Mirror, mirror on the wall

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Media conglomerates in the downturn
The triumph of the monthly bill
The satellite industry goes into orbit
Beaming
Interactive television advertising
Shop after you drop
Telenor and Alfa are reconciled
A strong signal
The hunt for rare earths
Abundant in Inner Mongolia
Carrefour in emerging markets
Exit the dragon?
Corporate governance at Petronas
Drilling and nation-building
Big beermakers vie for FEMSA
A fight brewing
Schumpeter
Hating what you do

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Smart grids
Wiser wires

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China's roaring economy
Bull in a china shop
Buttonwood
The nature of wealth
Foreign-currency mortgages
The bills are alive
Banks' funding
Parting shot
Sport and game theory
Common-room quarterbacks
State aid for banks
Penance for their sins
Gold prices
Bullion bulls
Economics focus
Two sides to every story
Correction: America's contingent liabilities

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From ancient life to alien life
Living where the sun don't shine
Climate change and warfare
Cool heads or heated conflicts?
The Nobel science prizes
Winning ways
Tyrannosaurs
Selling bones

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The history of British intelligence
Spying on the secret archives
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How many Mexicans does it take to drill an oil well?
Ecuador's president
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Education in Uruguay
Laptops for all
Honduras's power struggle
Cracks within and without

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Pakistan's Swat valley
The law in whose hands?
Sri Lanka's internally displaced
A view framed by barbed wire
America and Myanmar
Re-engagement rings
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A season of calamity
China's National Day
Party like it's '49
Banyan
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Panic or foresight?
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It won't go away
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Lullabies of the abandoned
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The Dadis Show turns nasty
Who's doing well in Africa?
Look south

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Germany's election
A black-yellow (and purple) triumph
Guido Westerwelle
Off to the Auswärtiges Amt
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Socratic method
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The blame game
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Prisa zapped
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Charlemagne
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BAE Systems
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Hug 'em close

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Extradition
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The long climb
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The hamster-wheel
A fine balance
Separation anxiety
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Gandhian banking
Market fatigue
Industrial design
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Russia's sickly car market
Feast and famine
The boom in smart-phones
Cleverly simple
Xerox buys ACS
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Unrepentant bears
The end is nigh (again)

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Reforming finance: Living wills
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European banks
Carpe capital
The role of emerging markets
Cosmetic surgery?
Buttonwood
A lot to swallow
Asian currencies
Hot air
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Back on the catwalk
American bank bosses
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The dog that didn't bark

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Dead in the water
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A clean break
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Schrödinger's virus
AIDS treatment
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John Maynard Keynes
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Theirs not to reason why
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Old Nick rides again
Rogier van der Weyden
The importance of being Rogier
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William Safire

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No time for Barack Obama to give up
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Zelaya swaps exile for embassy
Mexico's southern border
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The perpetual campaign
Law and politics in Colombia
His own worst enemy

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The press and politics in Japan
Let the rising sunlight in
Vietnam's rebounding economy
V not yet for victory
Taiwan and the United Nations
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Thugs templar
India's dalit chief minister
Monumental ambition
Afghanistan's electoral debacle
Don't need a weatherman…
Banyan
Without FEER or favour
Correction: Nepal's Maoists

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East Africa's drought
A catastrophe is looming
South Africa's president
Still on a roll
South Africa's controversial athlete
A sorry saga that keeps on running
Iraq and its oil
Deterring foreign investors
Israel and its West Bank settlements
Off the hook, for now

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France's Clearstream trial
Victim or villain?
Ireland and the Lisbon treaty
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The sultan and the vizier
Germany's federal election
The final furlong
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Charlemagne
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The Olympic games
Ring quartet

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ICANN be independent
Trying times for El Corte Inglés
The English patient
Airlines pledge to cut emissions
Almost virtuous
The fad for functional foods
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Schumpeter
The pedagogy of the privileged

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The rally in financial markets
Liquid fuel
Buttonwood
Chucking the buck
Wells Fargo
Ready to blow?
The search for America's worst investor
And the loser is...
RBS and Lloyds
Recovery ward
Shizuka Kamei
An old dawn
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Financial reform in America
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Much ado about multipliers

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Paying to save trees
Last gasp for the forest

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Anish Kapoor
Bringing beauty and beast into the drawing room
First principles of justice
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A biography of Louis Brandeis
Let's look at the facts
Israel and Palestine without peace
Distilled history
Central Asia's five stans
Nations without a cause
Moctezuma at the British Museum
Getting close to a doomed god

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