| Insight: In Ohio, "fracking" boom a delicate issue for Obama STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Out past the vacant storefronts and abandoned buildings, beyond the shuttered steel mills and decaying industrial plants, residents of eastern Ohio suddenly are seeing dollar signs. |
| Exclusive: Order knew for months about priest scandal: Vatican official VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week, a top Vatican official told Reuters on Wednesday. |
| U.S. housing, industrial data point to steady growth WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Groundbreaking for U.S. homes rebounded in April and factory activity gained momentum, suggesting a moderate pickup in economic growth early in the second quarter. |
| Fed officials keep door open on easing (Reuters) - 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. |
| Judge to lead Greece to fateful June 17 election ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government on Wednesday to lead the nation to new elections on June 17 and bankers tried to calm public fears after the president said political chaos risked causing panic and a run on deposits. |
| Exclusive: Iran flouts U.N. sanctions, sends arms to Syria: panel UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential draft report by a U.N. panel of experts seen by Reuters on Wednesday. |
| Exclusive: ECB stops operations with some Greek banks BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has stopped providing liquidity to some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalized, the ECB said on Wednesday, confirming news earlier reported exclusively by Reuters. |
| Apple readies iPhone with bigger screen: sources |
| Hedge fund managers reveal "best ideas" at event |
| Syria's Assad: Nations who "sow chaos" will suffer |