WITH A great surprise, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook gets married with 27-year-old Priscilla Chan at a small ceremony in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg himself has designed the wedding ring featuring "a very simple ruby". The pair met at Harvard nine years ago, where Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004. While his company valued at £106bn after a stock market flotation in this week, Chan graduated from medical school the same day Zuckerberg turned 28. Less than 100 guests attended the ceremony all of whom thought that they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation.

ANOTHER STRIKE is being held today in Dhaka called by Bangladesh National Party (BNP), after police charged 33 senior opposition leaders with involvement in an arson attack during an anti-government strike last month. Demonstrators and police have clashed in different places in the capital, with a number of vehicles attacked and set alight. TheBNP claimed that the court decision was "politically motivated", aimed at crushing "legitimate protests" over the disappearance ofBNP leader Elias Ali and to restore a caretaker government system to oversee the next national elections, due in 2014.

RATKOO MLADIC, the Bosnian-Serb army commander, faces 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide. The trial starts at the UN court over such a brutal massacre of over 7,000 Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica in 1995 and siege of Sarajevo. General Mladic, who spent 15 years on the run before being apprehended by Serb forces last May was eventually discovered and sent to The Hague, and is the last of the main protagonists in the Balkan wars of the 1990s to face an international trial . He has described the accusations as "monstrous" and the court has entered a "not guilty" plea on his behalf, which Mladic refuses and argues that his army was defending the Serb people in Bosnia.

AS A final effort, Greece's president is to convene a broader meeting with the heads of several political parties to find agreement in forming a workable government following inconclusive elections nine days ago. All political leaders will assemble at the presidential palace at 2pm. At the same time, this political turmoil has shaken markets around the world with heavy losses in Europe and the US followed by falls in Asia. If the cliff-edge talks fail, Greece will face fresh elections, prolonged political instability with a possible exit from the euro. The chairman of the eurozone group cited such a scenario as "nonsense".

FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, the new French leader has been the spotlight as he is to meet to go to Berlin for his first face-to-face meeting with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. This high-stakes summitry is likely to decide whether Germany and France can have a fruitful bargaining over the chances of the single currency’s survival in its current form while eurozone finance ministers are to discuss how to respond to political paralysis in Greece and a worsening crisis in Spain. On the other hand, the leader of far-left party Syriza decides not to attend the coalition talks plunging Greece into further political disarray.

TO MARK the first birthday of the grassroots movement which inspired "Occupy" protests in the US and around the world, tens of thousands of Spanish are rallied in the cities and towns to decry economic injustice. Unemployment hits a record high in April. While several columns of protesters marched separately to converge on central Puerta del Sol, authorities vowed to stop them camping in the square, which became the cradle of their movement. a tense standoff started developing with riot police, who were under orders to prevent them staying overnight. It is the beginning of a four-day protest that will end on May 15.