As he was being sentenced to 25 years, Sam Bankman-Fried appeared to wipe red, teary eyes. His parents watched him with their heads hung low.
When a French minister compared Italy's nationalist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last year to the leader of the French far right, the Italian premier rang French President Emmanuel Macron to complain. Meloni was so incensed that the French leader felt compelled to send an emissary to Rome to appease her, said two sources with knowledge of the conversations. The Italian premier's message to Macron was clear, according to one of the sources: she was no Italian version of Marine Le Pen.
At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. Toiling in sweatshops and building apartment complexes they could never afford to live in, they played a vital role in China's transformation into an economic powerhouse. As they grow older, the first generation of migrant workers is struggling to find jobs in a slowing economy.