Roy Ashburn – the recently out California GOP lawmaker with a long anti-gay record – was heckled by gay activists who shouted “We know you're one of us, Roy!” at an anti-gay marriage rally in 2005, the ...

Exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky won £150,000 ($220,000, 165,000 euros) in libel damages on Wednesday over a claim he was linked to the murder of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko. A judge in London said there was "no evidence" that Berezovsky -- a fierce critic of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin -- was behind the poisoning by radiation of Litvinenko in ...

Twelve pro-democracy Syrian activists, jailed after calling for greater democracy, lost their petition for early release and will have to serve their full 30-month sentence, a human rights group said on Wednesday. "The Court of Appeal rejected the petition presented by the lawyers of the opponents who had signed the 'Damascus Declaration,'" the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...

Gay and lesbian couples who applied for a license on the first day a District of Columbia gay marriage law went into effect last week began marrying Tuesday. Couples needed to wait the customary three-day period ...