Bo Xilai sentenced to life in prison in Chinese corruption case.

A Chinese court has sentenced ousted senior politician Bo Xilai to life in jail after finding him guilty of corruption and abuse of power.
Mr Bo was a rising star in China's leadership circles and cultivated a loyal following through his charisma and populist, quasi-Maoist policies.
He was especially liked among those left out in the cold by China's anything-for-growth economic policies.

But his career was stopped short last year by a murder scandal in which his wife, Gu Kailai, was convicted of poisoning a British businessman, Neil Heywood, who had been a family friend.
Mr Bo has the right to appeal within 10 days from tomorrow.

The court in the eastern city of Jinan, where Mr Bo was tried, ordered that all his personal assets be seized.
The court deprived him of his political rights for life, according to a transcript released by the court's official microblog.
"Bo Xilai was a servant of the state, he abused his power, causing huge damage to the country and its people...The circumstances were especially serious," the court said in its judgment.
State media said he would probably appeal, in which case the supreme court in Shandong province, where Jinan is located, would have to hear the case within two months.
The court showed a picture of a handcuffed Mr Bo, with clenched fists in an apparent show of defiance.
He was flanked by two policemen who held him by his shoulders and forearms.
Two more policemen stood by.
Heavy security and roadblocks around the courthouse kept bystanders at bay, with no signs of any Bo sympathisers present.
At the start of the trial a handful showed up to express their support for him.
At the close of Mr Bo's trial last month, prosecutors demanded a heavy sentence, saying his "whimsical" challenge to charges flew in the face of the evidence.
The court rejected Mr Bo's defence almost entirely, aside from one small section of the bribery charge related to travel expenses for Mr Bo's wife and their son Guagua paid for by businessman Xu Ming, for which it said the prosecution's case was flawed.
It also rejected Mr Bo's claims of coming "under psychological pressure" when he said he initially admitted to Communist Party anti-corruption investigators that he had received bribes.
"The pressure Bo Xilai said he came under does not count as being illegal under the rules about forced confession," it said.