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It's the end of the world according to Christian evangalist Harold Camping and his Family Radio group. So what better way to meet the end of days by partying 'till you drop. And organizers of Saturday's party mean it almost literally.

Cargill's cocoa and chocolate operations at its production facility in Côte d'Ivoire have now resumed. Cocoa bean purchases have also recommenced, and exports of products and beans will also resume in the next few days.

BNY Mellon Alternative Investment Services (AIS), a leading hedge fund service provider, announced that it has topped $400 billion in assets under administration, making it the second largest provider of solutions to hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and private equity investments globally.

The United States' top spy agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, deployed its latest stealth drone planes on dozens of secret missions to monitor the movements in the compound of Osama bin Laden before a team of crack Navy SEALs commandos launched the daring May 2 raid that killed the world's top terrorist.

The police in South Korea has ruled that the death of a taxi driver who was crucified on a wooden cross in an apparent recreation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was a suicide.

A Brazilian court has ruled that 36-year-old female accountant Ana Catarian Bezerra can legally masturbate at work and watch port on her work computer citing chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality.

Hundreds of South Korean sex workers, including prostitutes and pimps took to the streets near a red-light district in the capital Seoul to demand from the police to slowdown on their campaign against brothels and the sex trade.

At $1,000 or £600, the Marquis Los Cabos resort in Baja California Sur, a hotel resort in Mexico, has introduced the world's most expensive ice lolly.

A Chinese man has locked himself inside a hospital in China's southwest Yunnan Province ans has refused to leave after accusing medical staff of tattooing his right buttock while he was unconscious during a surgery.

Managed futures gained 2.55% in April according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date, the Barclay CTA Index is up 2.07%.

RWC Partners' Head of Absolute Return Bond Strategies, Peter Allwright, believes that investors should be far more concerned about the effects of the "re-profiling" of Greek debt than the inflation numbers.

Australia's favourite VJ, model, designer, DJ and personality Ruby Rose has teamed up with leading electronics company JVC to introduce a new concept in music festivals: JVC's Bustival .

Hedge fund industry leverage declined in the last 12 months, according to the HFR Leverage Report, released today by Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR). Leverage declined as investor inflows and less volatile performance gains combined to increase global hedge fund industry assets to a record $2.02 trillion.

Pyxis Mobile, provider of the only cross-device mobile application development platform designed to meet customers' constantly changing needs, announced today that the company has partnered with Smartsoft International, Inc., to expand its platform's SAP integration and mobilization capabilities.

Newedge, a global leader in multi-asset brokerage and clearing, today posted the monthly performance data for its suite of Hedge Fund Indices:

A 42-uear-old woman from Austria landed in a swimming pool after swerving to avoid a rabbit in the road.

A video showing a Russian man who was so drunk he made phone calls using a packet of cigarettes, has went viral.

He "hitched" a ride to escape his father to meet with his mom, but ended up 620 miles off his destination.

Hedge funds gained 1.32% in April according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date the Index is up 3.24%.

Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index Co., LLC, said, "The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index rose 1.80% in April, with nine out of ten sectors posting positive performance for the month. Managed Futures was the best performing sector for the month, finishing up 5.40%."

Responding to the impact of federal and international sanctions, the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) today adopted a plan to divest shares of the remaining public companies operating in specific segments of the Iran and Sudan economies. New investments in these companies would be blocked as well.

The Guinness World Book of Records has rejected the bid of a Philippine city to set a new world record for the most number of boys participating in a so-called "Tule (Circumcision) Party." Guinness said it cannot accept Marikina City's bid due to hygiene concerns.

An 18-year-old Chinese boy who lost nearly half of his body three years ago in the massive Sichuan earthquake has transformed himself as one of the country's top swimmers.

The police in Michigan has arrested a man hanging off the ledge of a 30ft building while dressed as 'Batman."

An all-female sect in Russia has anointed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and believes the tough-talking former top Russian spy, is a reincarnation of the early Christian missionary Paul.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday claimed that notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in U.S. custody for "sometime" before he was killed by American forces in a daring raid in Pakistan early this month.

Hundreds of Egyptian protesters demanding the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador and the severance of ties with the Jewish state, clashed with police outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Army troopers fired tear gas and shots into the air to disperse the protesters.

Authorities in Guatemala said that 27 people were killed with their heads decapitated on a northern farm on the Mexican border. Police believe the killings were drug related as drug gangs operate in the area.

Recent developments in the global crude oil markets, particularly rising tensions in the producing regions of the Middle East, have spurred the return of high levels of volatility to the crude and crude products markets.