Japan's electronics maker Panasonic Corp said on Thursday it plans to change its company rules to recognize same-sex marriages, joining a growing trend toward acceptance in a country where being openly gay largely remains taboo.
Five migrant workers have been killed after falling off the edge of a mountain while digging jade stones in Phakant, Myanmar's northernmost Kachin state, an official report said Thursday.
All of Europe is looking on with eyes wide open as efforts to renegotiate Greek's massive debt to European creditors come to a head at the emergency summit. But the view from Italy is a little different.
Eurozone's consumer confidence improved slightly in October after four months of decline, flash estimated data from the European Commission showed on Thursday.
The first same sex weddings in Britain are expected to happen from March 29 next year, Women and Equalities Minister Maria Miller said on Tuesday.
A group of lawyers are calling for legislation to provide homosexual partners in China with similar legal rights to opposite-sex couples.
Since a federal appeals court on Friday afternoon lifted a stay and allowed same-sex weddings to resume in California, hundreds of gay couples applied online for licenses.
U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a pair of rulings expanding homosexuals' right to marry, striking down Defense of the Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans same- sex married couples from receiving federal benefits, while declining to rule on another case concerning California's ban on same-sex marriage, opening the door for the state to legalize gay marriage.
After lengthy and hot debate, France's legislators gave the green light to same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, the Socialists' strongest social reform that sparked series of violent protests and homophobic attacks.
Australia's New South Wales (NSW) Premier Barry O'Farrell has come out in support of same-sex marriage, local media reported on Friday.
Tens of thousands of French protesters took to the streets across the country on Sunday to protest against the country's plan to legalize same-sex marriage and to allow adoption for same-sex couples.
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