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Chaos within OPEC is once again rocking oil prices -- and rattling the stock market in the process. The Dow dropped more than 200 points and the S&P 500 slid 1.3% on Wednesday morning as oil prices plunged another 4% to $30.60 a barrel. The latest collapse in oil prices comes after Saudi Arabia ruled out the idea of cutting production due to deep distrust among oil producing nations. Iran dashed hopes global producers would come to an agreement on freezing output at their already-high levels. The country's oil minister blasted the Saudi-led idea of production freeze as a "joke" on Tuesday.  All of this is bad news for the stock market, which is obsessed with the downsides of cheap oil . So far in 2016, oil and the S&P 500 have moved together 87% of the time, a CNNMoney analysis found . Just look at last week. The Dow soared 418 points -- its best performance of 2016 -- after oil prices climbed back above $33.50 a barrel. Now that ...

  Balkissa Chaibou dreamed of becoming a doctor, but when she was 12 she was shocked to learn she had been promised as a bride to her cousin. She decided to fight for her rights - even if that meant taking her own family to court. "I came from school at around 18:00, and Mum called me," Balkissa Chaibou recalls. "She pointed to a group of visitors and said of one of them, 'He is the one who will marry you.' "I thought she was joking. And she told me, 'Go unbraid, and wash your hair.' That is when I realised she was serious." The young girl from Niger had always been ambitious. "When I was little, I was dreaming of becoming a doctor. Take care of people, wear the white coat. Help people," she says. Marriage to her cousin, who had arrived with his father from neighbouring Nigeria, would make this impossible. "They said if you marry him you won't be able to study any more. For me my passion...

Since Ajak Deng was spotted in 2008, she's been one of Australia's most successful model exports. Over almost a decade she's walked for Dior, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Marc Jacobs, Chloe and Jean Paul Gaultier and starred in an armful of global campaigns. Despite her success, Ajak announced on Instagram today that she is  "officially done with the fashion industry. " She explained that she is giving up her career because she "can no longer deal with the fakes and the lies. My life is too short for this dramatic life." Adding that she planned to move back to Australia to "live the life that I fully deserved. Which is real life." Despite her impending flight back home, don't expect Ajak to appear on Australian runways either. The model's manager Stephen Bucknell followed her announcement, commenting that she'd always struggled to book work in Australia because the industry's bias towards white models: "They'll book th...

Narrow battle for second Not only was it a win in the Silver State, but it was a win with a huge margin. With all of the expected vote in, Trump dominated the race with 45.9%. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz featured in another tight battle for second, with Rubio claiming 23.9% of the vote and Cruz 21.4%. The results in Nevada, a state where 30 delegates are at stake, demonstrated the power of Trump's appeal in this anti-establishment year. It also underscored his ability to use his media savvy and enormous popularity to sweep a state with complex caucus rules and where rivals were far more organized. Trump increased his vote share over what he won in other primary states, outpacing second place finisher Marco Rubio by double digits, even though Rubio spent part of his childhood in Nevada. Rubio, however, insisted Wednesday morning that "a majority of Republican voters in this country do not want Donald Trump to be the nominee...

  It was a stunning show of momentum for his campaign, one that made it increasingly difficult to imagine a scenario where any other GOP candidate wins the Republican nomination. "We love Nevada," Trump said during his brief victory speech at his party in Las Vegas late Tuesday night. "We will be celebrating for a long time tonight." "We weren't expected to win too much and now we're winning, winning, winning the country," Trump said. "And soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning." He basked in his success across demographics. "We won the evangelicals," he said. "We won with young. With won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated." On Wednesday morning, he looked ahead to a Trump presidency, detailing the three things he'd do on Day 1 if he wins the White House. "First thing is knock out some of the exec...