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Newly Built Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain
By SUZANNE DALEY and RAPHAEL MINDER
YEBES, Spain — The wreckage of Spain’s once booming construction industry is everywhere, and much of it sits as bad debt on the books of Spain’s banks.
Cover Blown, C.I.A. Chief Has to Quit Pakistan
By MARK MAZZETTI and SALMAN MASOOD
WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. station chief in Islamabad left after his identity was exposed. Some American officials suspect that Pakistan’s military intelligence agency deliberately blew his cover.
Mexican Leader’s Crime Effort Fails to Advance
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Congress adjourned without moving on President Felipe Calderón’s effort to reorganize police forces and clamp down on money laundering.
Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times
Pakistan’s Palette of Blood and Tears
By JANE PERLEZ
KARACHI, Pakistan — Violence is a thread running through “The Rising Tide,” a new exhibition of contemporary art in Karachi, including Abdullah Syed’s “Flying Rug.”
OFF THE CHARTS
The Euro’s Uneven Benefit in Europe
By FLOYD NORRIS
The euro was meant to boost trade, but some euro zone states have lost export market share while others gained.
Bloc of E.U. States Seek Budget Freeze
By REUTERS
Britain, France, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands called on Saturday for the European Union budget to be frozen until at least 2020.
THE SATURDAY PROFILE
Failed Assassin Assimilates in South Korea
By MARK McDONALD
SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Shin-jo, once part of a failed North Korean assassination plot in Seoul, fears his adopted country fails to appreciate the threat posed by his old one.
From WikiLeaks Founder, a Barrage of Interviews
By RAVI SOMAIYA
LONDON — In a series of media appearances, Julian Assange railed against what he called an “illegal” investigation of him and his Web site by the United States.
