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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for a fourth straight day as confusion over Greece's political future extended the recent stock slide. The blue-chip Dow lost 33.45 points, or 0.26%, to 12598.55, to finish at the day's lows...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341968/20120516/australia-dollar-usd-aud-eur-commodities-europe.htm

A group of retired Chinese Communist Party members have called for the resignation of Zhou Yongkang, the head of China's Public Security Ministry...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341962/20120516/zhou-yongkang-communist-party-resign-petition.htm

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, announced Wednesday he has decided against moving across the country and running for Congress in Washington state...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341960/20120516/dennis-kucinich-house-election.htm

Mary Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is dead, an employee of the Westchester County, N.Y., medical examiner's office said Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341959/20120516/kennedy-divorce-death.htm

Iran continues to send arms shipments to Syria in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports, according to a draft report by a U.N. panel released Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341957/20120516/iran-syria-weapons-arms-un-u-n.htm

The state of Vermont became on Wednesday the first in the United States to ban the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341956/20120516/hydraulic-fracturing-natural-gas-vermont-government-ban.htm

A report on Wednesday reveals that child marriage has become less prevalent in South Asia over the last two decades, but not for brides of all age groups. Adolescents over 15 are still marrying at about the same rate as they did two decades ago...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341955/20120516/child-marriage-south-asia-india-study.htm

The National Coalition For Men argues the "true victims" of domestic violence will be better served by the House Republican bill...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341953/20120516/men-s-rights-group-backs-house-republican.htm

As the city invests in tech, Councilwoman Leticia James wishes that Mayor Bloomberg would to more to make sure Brooklyn doesn't get left out..

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341951/20120516/nyc-boasts-growing-tech-industry-councilwoman-hopes.htm

Baby red crabs have infested the Cayman Islands by the hundreds of thousands, an in unusually heavy migration season that has caused havoc. If local superstition is any indicator, the Caribbean may face a rough hurricane season...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341945/20120516/baby-red-crabs-cayman-infest-hurricane-season.htm

On Wednesday, a jury convicted Steve Powell on 14 charges of voyeurism that stemmed from a 2009 investigation into the disappearance of his daughter in-law Susan Powell, who has not been found...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341944/20120516/steve-powell-josh-father-convicted-14-counts.htm

Arnoldo Jimenez, the husband of the 26-year-old bride named Estrella Carrera found stabbed to death in her bathtub this past weekend, has been named as the prime suspect in the murder and is reportedly on the run in a 2006 Maserati in Chicago, police said on Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341934/20120516/arnoldo-jimenez-estrella-carrerra-chicago-bride-murder.htm

Islamabad has ordered government officials to end a supply route blockade against NATO forces, said Pakistan Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341925/20120516/pakistan-open-supply-routes-afghanistan-nato-agreement.htm

The financial markets appear to have already priced in Greece’s departure from the euro bloc...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341922/20120516/greece-exit-euro-zone-losses-france-germany.htm

James Abdnor, the former U.S. senator from South Dakota most known for ousting former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern from the senate seat, died Wednesday of natural causes. He was 89...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341914/20120516/james-abdnor-dies-senator-south-dakota-george.htm

Prosecutors in Milan said in a statement on Wednesday that Bossi was being investigated for suspected fraud, while his sons Renzo and Riccardo were being investigated for alleged embezzlement...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341912/20120516/italy-northern-league-bossi-tax-prosecutors.htm

Firefighters in Arizona continue to battle wildfires growing across the state Wednesday and are working to prevent a large blaze near the Crown King community from moving into an area where it could rapidly spread...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341909/20120516/arizona-wildfires-firefighters-gladiator-fire-crown-king.htm

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff inaugurated on Wednesday a truth commission set up to investigate human rights abuses during the country's military regime 27 years after democracy was restored...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341905/20120516/brazil-truth-commission-dilma-rousseff-human-rights.htm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is again under fire for a draft study released late last year that suggests natural gas drilling contaminated ground water...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341902/20120516/hydraulic-fracturing-encana-epa-water-pollution-methane.htm

Picking up where Newt Gingrich left off, Vice President Joe Biden cast Mitt Romney's investment firm, Bain Capital, as an example of predatory capitalism that exploits workers...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341898/20120516/biden-bain-obama-romney-capital-gingrich.htm

While the Obama administration rejected to several section's of the House's proposed NDAA bill, a controversial indefinite detention provision for terrorism suspects was not among them...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341895/20120516/ndaa-veto-threat-white-house-rejects-provisions.htm

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave a rare television interview on Wednesday, appearing on Russia's official Rossia-24 news channel to tout the success of the May 7 parliamentary elections...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341891/20120516/assad-syria-russia-tv-video.htm

California kayaker Joey Nocchi endured a tense moment after going toe-to-toe with a 14-foot-long shark...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341888/20120516/kayak-shark-attack-joey-nocchi-14-foot.htm

U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers kept the door open to a fresh round of monetary stimulus, citing downside risks to a moderately expanding economy, according to minutes for the central bank's April meeting...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341882/20120516/federal-reserve-bernanke-bonds-quantitative-easing.htm

Recent polls show that Greece's far-left Syriza party is poised to gain the most votes in the June 17 parliamentary elections. The news has many wondering exactly where the popular opposition party came from, what it represents, and how it would address Greece's crushing debt burden while living up to its promise of abolishing austerity...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341881/20120516/syriza-tsipras-greece-parliament-election-poll-synapsismos.htm

A 67-year-old man named Robert Gene White died while getting lap dances at an El Paso strip club after he reportedly had a heart attack at the Red Parrot strip club...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341879/20120516/man-dies-lap-dance-red-parrot-strip.htm

Interestingly, Martine Aubry, the leader of the Socialist party rejected an offer to head a "super ministry."..

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341877/20120516/france-government-cabinet-minister-ayrault-hollande.htm

Tsipras has said he wants Greece to remain in the euro zone, but has demanded that bailout agreements be renegotiated by providing more favorable terms...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341863/20120516/greece-election-debt-tsipras-eu-syriza-germany.htm

A team of U.N. observers was evacuated from a Syrian town after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb Tuesday, following an attack by gunmen on a funeral procession that killed at least 20 people. No U.N. personnel were reported injured, though the team had to spend the night among rebel fighters until they could be safely escorted out of the area...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341860/20120516/un-u-n-syria-rebel-bomb-convoy.htm

The Obama administration has joined Democratic lawmakers in denouncing a Republican-sponsored measure to renew the Violence Against Women Act, saying the bill rolls back needed safeguards against domestic violence...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341857/20120516/house-violence-against-women-vawa-veto-republicans.htm

The Japanese government and local companies will buy a 10 percent stake in Chevron Corp. (CVX)'s Wheatstone natural gas field in Australia for 350 billion yen ($4.37 billion), Nikkei newspaper reported...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341855/20120516/japan-tepco-mitsubishi-wheatstone-lng.htm

A new blend of ethanol in gasoline could likely cause billions in damages to millions of engines across the country said a final report released by the Coordinating Research Council on Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341854/20120516/gasoline-cars-ethanol-epa-api-engine-damage.htm

Former Colombian Interior Minister Fernando Londono narrowly survived a car bomb blast in Bogota that claimed the lives of at least two bodyguards on Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341849/20120516/colombia-bombing-explosion-blast-londono-assassination-bomb.htm

Shortly after winning 21 seats in parliament, Greece's Golden Dawn has already become a political pariah...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341844/20120516/golden-dawn-greece-neo-nazi.htm

Europe was "discovered" when Native Americans shipwrecked in Holland in about 60 B.C., according to claims in a number of history books that call into question the history we all learned in school...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341840/20120516/native-americans-shipwrecked-holland-europe-indians-discover.htm

The Pirate Bay, bane of content creators and love of downloaders, has endured a prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that has disabled the site for an unusually prolonged period of time, with many pointing to hacktivist group Anonymous as the source of the problem...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341839/20120516/pirate-bay-down-anonymous-ddos-attack-disabled.htm

The former financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought abroad on suspicion of corruption and embezzlement...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341831/20120516/palestine-palestibne-news-corruption-fraud-mohammed-rashid.htm

Taylor, who was convicted in April of supporting rebels during Sierra Leone's bloody civil war, was speaking before the court for the last time before sentencing later this month...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341826/20120516/charles-taylor-sierra-leone-hague-trial.htm

The European Central Bank has stopped monetary policy operations with some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalized, euro zone central bank sources said on Wednesday...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341825/20120516/ecb-european-central-bank-greece.htm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday said the country will provide Afghanistan with 150 million euros annually to support its security forces. The funding will start in 2015, the year after NATO-led forces are scheduled to leave the country...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341822/20120516/angela-merkel-150-million-euros-afghan-troop.htm

Chinese fishermen are finding themselves at the center of foreign policy disputes between their country and many others across the region. Even friends like North Korea seem to have it out for Chinese fishing vessels...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341820/20120516/north-korea-south-palau-philippines-china-fishing.htm

Donnell Battie from Winslow, N.J. is seeking $1 million in punitive damages from Wal-Mart after he said he was traumatized by a public address announced that said "Attention, Wal-Mart customers. All black people must leave the store."...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341816/20120516/donnell-battie-sues-walmart-announcement-black-people.htm

There's a quirky way to make some money off of the Facebook IPO without directly investing in the social media giant...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341814/20120516/facebook-ipo-mark-zuckerberg-invest-prop-bet.htm

In a new video making its rounds on the internet, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) teams up with Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) in an effort to poke fun at Christie's "jealousy of Booker."...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341813/20120516/chris-christie-cory-booker-new-jersey-video.htm

The Bank of England under the direction of its governor Mervyn King today revised down its growth projections for the British economy this year and is now saying that the nation will not reach pre-crisis levels until 2014...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341807/20120516/mervyn-king-politics-uncertainty.htm

China accuses the Dalai Lama of orchestrating Tibetan self-immolations...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341801/20120516/dalai-lama-china-tibet.htm

Noting that a majority of Facebook users are women, the group is calling on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to diversify its board of directors as the company prepares to go public...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341799/20120516/facebook-ipo-women-s-rights-group-criticize.htm

MTV will change the airtime for its Video Music Awards show in September to avoid a conflict with President Barack Obama, who will be delivering his acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination the same night...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341791/20120516/mtv-video-music-awards-obama-acceptance-speeach.htm

The Legion of Christ religious order has been struck with another scandal after Rev. Thomas Williams admitted that he had fathered a child years ago, while still preaching about morality and ethics...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341782/20120516/legion-christ-religious-order-rev-thomas-williams.htm

The comments come amid a growing chorus of European ministers openly discussing the possibility of a Greek exit from the single currency...

Details: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341781/20120516/imf-greece-euro-exit-lagarde.htm