Same-sex couples eager to marry in New York hit a bureaucratic snag when marriage license applications made available to them for the first time on Tuesday still used the terms "bride" and
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has not told President Barack Obama he would like to leave after a debt ceiling deal is reached, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. Sources familiar
A bare-headed motorcyclist riding in protest of New York state's helmet law crashed, struck his head on the roadway and died from his injuries, state police said on Sunday. Philip Contos, 55,
A Mexican prisoner hoped to take a trip to freedom by packing himself into his girlfriend's suitcase. But guards at the jail in the southeastern town of Chetumal grew suspicious when the
U.S. airlines stepped up their campaign against European Union climate policy on Tuesday, challenging the EU in its highest court over the right to regulate their greenhouse gas emissions. The EU aims
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shot dead ten people on Tuesday in the Syrian city of Hama, activists said, and France called on the United Nations to adopt a firm stance
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was hit with a fresh complaint of attempted rape in France on Tuesday, a new hurdle to any political comeback, even though U.S. sex assault charges against him may be
Turkey's football federation said on Tuesday it will act swiftly in response to nationwide match-fixing allegations, without waiting for the outcome of a judicial investigation which emerged at the weekend. Police have
Revenue from tourism jumped by 13.6% over the year earlier in May, according to the results of the Passenger Survey. Revenue from tourism reached EUR 187.1 mln in May compared with EUR
In January-March 2011 the turnover value index of wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles decreased by 3.6% compared with October-December 2010. The Index rose by 1.2% compared
