The loading screen of the Facebook application on a mobile phone is seen in this photo illustration taken in Lavigny May 16, 2012. . REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud

Facebook IPO triggers retail investor craze

SAN FRANCISCO - Despite warnings from many wealth managers about the risks of jumping into the Facebook IPO Friday, many individual investors are being drawn in by the company's brand name and the fact that one in seven people around the globe are on the social network.   Full Article | Video 

Fed officials keep door open on easing 3:12pm EDT

- Several Federal Reserve policymakers last month thought they may need to do more to help the recovery if it stumbles, but there was almost no support for extending the central bank's "Operation Twist" program, due to end in June.

The lobby of JP Morgan headquarters is photographed through it's front doors in New York May 11, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

JPMorgan investment unit played by risky rules

LONDON/FRANKFURT - The JPMorgan unit that lost more than $2 billion through a failed hedging strategy had looser risk controls than the rest of the bank, according to people familiar with the situation.  Full Article 

A woman withdraws money from an ATM in central Athens, May 16, 2012. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

Greeks vote with wallets in fear of euro zone exit

ATHENS/BERLIN - Greeks are pulling euros out of the banks in fear that their country may leave the European single currency despite the declared determination of EU powers Germany and France to keep Athens in the monetary union.  Full Article 

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic attends his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague May 16, 2012. REUTERS/Toussaint Kluiters/Pool

Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial

THE HAGUE - Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two.  Full Article | Slideshow 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer arrive for the opening of the Bayreuth Wagner opera festival outside the Gruener Huegel (Green Hill) opera house in Bayreuth July 25, 2011.  REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

Don't call him Mr. Merkel

BERLIN - Political spouses sometimes provide a spot of glamour. Then there is Joachim Sauer. As his wife stands in the global spotlight battling the euro-zone's economic crisis, Sauer is happy to remain unknown outside the world of theoretical chemistry.  Full Article 

Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, poses in her office in Sacramento, California, April 27, 2012.  REUTERS/Max Whittaker

Activist targets schools, backed by big bucks

After three tumultuous years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rhee has emerged as the leader of an unlikely coalition vowing to overhaul the nation’s public education system and forever break the hold of teachers unions on policy.  Full Article 

A handout combination picture of two video grabs released on September 2, 2011 on the Syrian Arab News Agency taken from confession videos that shows Qusai Shaqfeh (L) and Omran Abd El-Razzak, labeled as "terrorists" by Syrian state media May 16, 2012. REUTERS/Sana/Handout

Syria's TV confessions fail to convince many

BEIRUT - Syria's state media is fighting hard to cast the country's unrest as an Islamist terrorist conspiracy rather than a popular uprising against the dynastic rule of President Bashar al-Assad.  Full Article 

An image of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is displayed at a hearing on "Chen Guangcheng: His Case, Cause, Family, and Those Who are Helping Him" held by the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights on Capitol Hill in Washington May 15, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Dissident's plight revives China rights movement

BEIJING - China may have sown the seeds of its next human rights dispute with the United States even as it looks to end the current one over blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, with its treatment of him inspiring a band of lawyers to join his human-rights battle.  Full Article 

Recent home buyers Robert and Debra Eaton are pictured in front of their home in Spanaway, Washington on April 25, 2012. REUTERS/Anthony Bolante

Foreclosed Americans return to homeownership

NEW YORK - A small but growing number of Americans are making a surprisingly quick return to homeownership after defaulting on their loans or being forced into short sales that cost their banks money.   Full Article 

Don Tapscott

Can we retain privacy in the era of Big Data?

Today online anonymity is essentially non-existent. Our society is collectively creating, storing and communicating information at nearly exponential rates of growth.  Commentary 

Edward Hadas

Bad ideas spawn Lesser Depression

When Lehman failed, there were good reasons to think the pain would be brief and concentrated. Almost four years on, the rich world has not fully recovered. Policymakers are following flawed expert advice. A rethink on both unemployment and debt is urgently needed.  Commentary 

Stephen J. Hadley and Madeleine K. Albright

Building a new future for Turkey

Recent developments in Syria and Iran have highlighted the importance of one of the U.S.’s most enduring relationships: its alliance with Turkey. The two countries have an historic chance to forge a genuinely new partnership and work together in the Middle East, Madeleine K. Albright and Stephen J. Hadley write.  Commentary 

Bethany McLean

Student debt could hobble the economy

Default rates on student loans are both high and hard to measure, and there are reasons to fear that the growing mountain of student debt could have every bit as profound an impact on our economy as the housing bubble did.  Commentary 

Steven Brill

Press-dinner proceeds and cat-and-mouse China reporting

How much money raised by the White House Correspondents' Dinner actually goes to charity? And what are the special challenges of getting stories like Chen Guangcheng's out of China?   Commentary 

Hugo Dixon

How to protect the euro from a Greek exit

The chances of Athens quitting the euro have shot up. Unless the rest of the euro zone is well prepared, the knock-on effect will be devastating. Fortunately, it’s not too difficult to construct a contingency plan.  Commentary 

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