DUBAI/SINGAPORE: The fastest growing part of the global bond market is faltering and it has nothing to do with subprime mortgages or the credit crunch.

Graham Dunbar November 10, 2008 - 2:40 p.m. ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Groups that regulate sports betting are calling for an international agency to coordinate the fight against illegal gambling and match-fixing.

It was in 1978 that Kenny Rogers, the Dylan Thomas of America's trailer parks, sang the song "The Gambler", with wisdom equally applicable to any poker player looking at his cards or any financial market trader looking at his monitor.

Given what happened to Dien Trung Lam, it's surprising to find his apartment door unlocked. But caregivers are in and out most of the day, feeding the man they know as John, washing and shaving him, emptying the urine sack under his wheelchair.

Saying tennis is "potentially at a crossroads," an independent review panel found 45 matches that merit further investigation because of irregular betting patterns and offered a host of recommendations to the sport's leaders for combatting corruption.