Why we love music

Immigration

The border closes

Barack Obama's BlackBerry

Subject: Iran

Education

B+ for the new boy

Cheap skiing

Slippery slopes

Visiting the Capitol

Nobody does it better

Lexington

Shenanigans and seriousness

Brazil's foreign policy

The samba beat, with missteps

The mayor of Mexico City

Backroom boss

Venezuela's alternative currencies

Tokens of utopia

Pakistan

United against the wrong enemy

Afghanistan

The next surge

Thailand

New face, old anger

China and Taiwan

Ever cuddlier

Australian tourism

Joy of the outback

Correction: Eid in Pakistan

Somalia's Islamists

The rise of the Shabab

Uganda

Catch him if you can

Geothermal power in Africa

Continental Rift

Egypt and Gaza

Can nothing be done?

France and the European Union

Supersarko leaves the podium

German neo-Nazis

A stabbing pain

Latvia's troubled economy

Baltic brink

Italy and the Mafia

Sicilian vespers

Charlemagne

The magnificence of Nicolas Sarkozy

Sinking sterling

Fall from grace

Upgrading railways

The new age of the train

University applications

Getting in

Civil partnerships

Happy anniversary

Bagehot

Black-sky thinking

Climate change diplomacy

Fiddling with words as the world melts

Global protest

Rioters of the world unite

International man of mystery

Flying anything to anybody

Angels

Messengers in the modern world

Human evolution

Why music?

The Fastnet Lighthouse

Light on a lonely rock

William Tyndale

A hero for the information age

Tintin

A very European hero

Oysters

Gem of the ocean

Board game

Credit Crunch

Chilies

Global warming

Sufism

Of saints and sinners

Birds in China

The loneliness of the Chinese birdwatcher

The science of shopping

The way the brain buys

Booms and busts

The beauty of bubbles

Protectionism

The battle of Smoot-Hawley

Darwinism

Why we are, as we are

Ecstasy

Agony and ecstasy

Cookbooks

Pluck a flamingo

Start-ups in India

A suitable business

The Siemens scandal

Bavarian baksheesh

America's car industry

Video games

Play on

Casual games

Keep it simple

Face value

Santa's happy helper

The Madoff affair

Con of the century

The Federal Reserve

Ground zero

World trade

Barriers to entry

Economics focus

Banks need more capital

Perfume science

The scent of a man

Engineering

Steam on

Cosmology

A shot in the dark

Psychology

Malice aforethought

“The Tale of Genji”

Playboy of the eastern world

New crime fiction

Death in the afternoon

Nature writing

An English scribbly bark

Barilla's cookery library

Food for thought

Correction: Georgian gold

H.M.