The trial of Ratko Mladic, the man accused of being responsible for the bloodiest genocide in Europe since World War II, began on Wednesday at The Hague, 17 years after the Bosnian conflict ended. Mladic is charged with 11 counts, including two counts of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian conflict, including the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica. Family members of his victims and survivors packed the courtroom to see Mladic, who reportedly gave them a sarcastic hand clap and wave. Mladic gestured he needed a bathroom break by sliding his finger across his throat, causing consternation from his victims. Mladic, 70, had eluded authorities for 16 years until his capture in May 2011.

Greeks are withdrawing euros from banks over fear of the country exiting the single currency and the rapid devaluation they would suffer as a result. In a meeting between Greek President Karolos Papoulias and political leaders, Papoulias spoke of the “fear that could develop into panic” at the country’s banks as the political parties failed to form a coalition government and a new election was announced. Central bank head George Provopoulos said Greeks had withdrawn at least €700 million ($894 million) on Monday. Meanwhile, the London stock exchange, the FTSE, was down Wednesday on the news from Greece.

And the winner is … Mitt Romney! The former Massachusetts governor had no problem running to victory in both Nebraska and Oregon on Tuesday night, winning nearly 70 percent of the vote in the Cornhusker State with three quarters of precincts reporting. The Associated Press called the race for Romney in Oregon, projecting him the winner of a distant second-placer Ron Paul. Rick Santorum placed second in Nebraska, though neither he nor Paul could get within 60 percentage points of Romney. Romney is set to gain 57 total delegates from Tuesday’s wins, 32 from Nebraska which will be added during the state’s convention in July, and 25 from Oregon to come when the win is made official. Former senator Bob Kerrey won the Democratic primary in Nebraska, setting up what promises to be a tight race with Republican state Sen. Deb Fischer, who won a three-way primary over Attorney General Jon Bruning.

Facebook will increase the size of its initial public offering by 25 percent, a source told Reuters on Wednesday—meaning the company could raise as much as $16 billion before its shares go public on Friday. If the IPO is increased, it will be the third-largest initial share sale in history, after Visa and General Motors. According to the source, Facebook will add about 85 million shares, for a total of 422 million expected to be floated in the public offering. The news about the shares came just one day after GM announced it would be pulling its ads from Facebook, saying the ads are ineffective.

Russian police cleared a campsite by political protesters in Moscow early Wednesday morning a day after a judge ordered the campsite be cleared because of complaints by the neighborhood residents. Known as OccupyAbai, named after the statue of a 19^th century Kazakh writer in Chistye Prudy park, police had initially said they wouldn’t move in until noon, but instead swooped at 5:30 a.m. The protesters offered no resistance, police said 23 people were detained, mainly for public intoxication. Protesters moved to a small park near the Barrikadnaya metro station, named for the barricades in the 1905 revolution, after word spread on Twitter that the gathering had moved.

The Syrian rebels have become better armed in the past few weeks, apparently receiving weapons that have been paid for by its Gulf neighbors and the U.S., said opposition activists as well as U.S. and foreign officials. The Obama administration has insisted the U.S. is not providing any lethal material, but a senior State Department officials said the U.S. is increasing its “nonlethal assistance” to the Syrian opposition. Material is reportedly being stockpiled in Damascus, and in the border towns of Idlib and Zabandani. Opposition activists had said two months ago that the rebels were running out of ammunition, but they said this week that the flow of weapons has significantly increased since Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf states agreed to provide millions in funding to the rebels.

At least there are some things Chris Christie and Cory Booker agree on. The Republican governor of New Jersey and the Democratic mayor of Newark teamed up for a web video released on Tuesday. In the video, created for the New Jersey Press Association Legislative Correspondents Club, Booker pretends to field a call from Romney where he is asked to consider a spot on Romney’s ticket. Booker says “yes, yes that was me running into the fire” and admits to shoveling snow, but then says he is not a “back-up singer” and says “you need a big …” and then Christie jumps in and says “excuse me, mayor, I got this.”  Christie also released a video Tuesday lamenting the amount of times he’s been asked to join Romney’s ticket.

An arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday for a Chicago man charged in the murder of his new wife, who was found slain in her wedding dress a day after the two were married. Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, and Estrella Carrera, 26, were married Friday in Chicago’s City Hall, and the couple then had dinner with friends and family and boarded a rented limousine before partying at a nightclub on Chicago’s North Side. On Sunday, Carrera was found stabbed to death in her bathtub. Jimenez is the father of Carrera’s youngest child, a two-year-old son.

Will President Obama win the award for best nomination? The MTV Music Video Awards and Obama’s acceptance speech are both scheduled for Sept. 6th, although a source told CNN that MTV is planning on airing the awards show to an earlier time as to avoid any conflicts. CNN will air the awards show will air from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. so as to “avoid conflict with the Democratic National Convention that evening.”

Lady Gaga’s Indonesian promoters said Wednesday that they will fight to save her upcoming concert, which was canceled after police denied it a permit and Islamic hardliners threatened “chaos” if she comes to the country. Production company Big Daddy reached out to Lady Gaga’s famous “Little Monsters” on Twitter, saying they still hoped for the June 3^rd concert would take place—especially since 50,000 tickets have already been sold. But the Islamic Defenders Front have promised to wreak chaos on the country if she performs, calling her the “devil’s messenger” who wears only a “bra and panties” on the stage.