The Boston Globe World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries | BANGKOK-World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union. | The fall in European... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Denver Post China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term | BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the ... (photo: AP / Greg Baker)