Leaders
Somalia
Thank you and goodbye
Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia may have beneficial results—provided it gets out fast
America's new Congress
Bush-baiting
The president is in for a difficult two years, but all is not yet lost
Briefing
The United Nations
Mission impossible?
As Ban Ki-moon takes charge at the United Nations, we look at the prospects for this troubled body and for its peacekeeping efforts round the world
Manpower
The world of work
To see how the nature of work is changing around the world, look at the evolving strategy of a global employment provider
Europe
Bulgaria and Romania
The new kids on the block
Spain and ETA
Bombers return
Germans and time
Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow
France and tax
Tax 'n' wealth and rock 'n' roll
Charlemagne
A monster lives again
Britain
Public-service broadcasting
The future of the BBC
Northern Ireland
Closer?
NHS woes
The going gets tougher
Smoking ban
Stub it out
Junk food
A little less of what you fancy
Bagehot
Mr Brown's awfully big year
Middle East & Africa
United States
The 110th Congress
Tough choices, Madam Speaker
Governors old and new
The second term-inator
Ethanol
Even in Texas
State promotion
Mississippi turning
The death penalty
The executioner's wrong
New York
Booze ban
Lexington
The urge to surge
The Americas
Asia
Thailand
Generals' disarray
China and Central Asia
Go west, young man
Turkmenistan
A bad father of the Turkmen
India
The great job swap
Motoring in Japan
Highway robbery
International
Business
Health consumerism
The wellness boom
Wellness drinks
A magic potion?
Alitalia
Terminal decline
Mining
Shock and ore
The car industry
Plugging in
Corporate governance
Home alone
Face value
The hustler
Finance & economics
Emerging markets
The global gusher
Buttonwood
The three Scrooges
Lloyd's of London
The Rip van Winkle of risk
Private banking
Sweet success
Mortgages
A Danish model in Aztec dress
Economics focus
Shifting sands
Science & technology
Obesity and bacteria
Greedy guts?
Personal data
The logic of privacy
Bats and agriculture
Fear vandals, not vampires
Culture
The inefficiency of tidiness
In praise of mess
Beatrix Potter
Force of nature
A childhood in Scotland
The poetry of remembrance
Post-war politics