Asia’s shifting balance of power

The world this week

Leaders

Asia’s shifting balance

The region is about to get harder to manage, not easier

Hunting corporate criminals

Greater accountability for individuals, not just firms, would help to reduce catastrophes

Old world, new economy

Europe’s economies are starting to wake up

South Africa’s role in the world

Thabo Mbeki would like his country to be influential. The place to start is his own doorstep

What? Sell the exchange?

The tussle for the control of the London Stock Exchange is part of a broader battle: to create a truly global market in shares

Letters

Letters

Europe

Germany

The church victorious

Briefing

A ticket to prosperity

As in Europe, migrant labour is indispensable to southern Africa. And its effects, for good and bad, are even greater

Business

Culture

Opera on film

From Tosca to Oscar

New fiction

Dot love

Literary table-talk

Guess who came to dinner

American politics

Mr Senator

Wall Street dramas

Lesson learned?

Religions in history

Shakers... and movers