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BANGKOK (AP) -- China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. In Egypt's conservative, Muslim-dominated society, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been used to imprison gay men in recent years. Even some gay rights activists in the Philippines are opposed to same-sex marriage....

Chile passes a hate crimes law that languished in Congress for seven years but gained added urgency after the fatal beating of a gay man in March.

Greater Manchester's chief constable says more arrests are likely in connection with a child sexual grooming ring in Heywood.

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SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- An airstrike killed five al-Qaida militants in the south of Yemen on Thursday, officials said, days after details emerged about a Saudi mole within the network who reportedly provided information allowing the CIA to target one of its key leaders....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found....

WASHINGTON (AP) — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them.

A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in a single year, part of a pattern of questionable billings at 2,600 drugstores nationwide uncovered by federal investigators in a ...

Algerian have voted in parliamentary elections billed by the authorities as historically transparent, but marred by a low turnout.

GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi man on the run from a double-slaying thought he might be the father of the two girls he's now accused of kidnapping, his mother-in-law said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's evolution on gay marriage unfolded at a Darwinian pace, like that of the giant tortoise. For more than a year - eons in politics - he danced up to the edge of endorsing it, always stopping short, still "evolving."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's evolution on gay marriage unfolded at a Darwinian pace, like that of the giant tortoise. For more than a year - eons in politics - he danced up to the edge of endorsing it, always stopping short, still "evolving."...

The Beastie Boys have returned to the US album charts following the death of band member Adam Yauch last week.

The Argentine Senate passes a law that gives terminally ill patients the right to refuse treatment.

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin will skip a planned visit to the United States this month for a key global summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama, the Kremlin confirmed Thursday, as he faced pressure from protests and opposition criticism at home....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He gave no speech, issued no call to action. He spoke of changing alongside the nation's people, not of leading them into uncharted territory. He made sure to say what so many so passionately believe - that states should decide such issues on their own....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- He gave no speech, issued no call to action. He spoke of changing alongside the nation's people, not of leading them into uncharted territory. He made sure to say what so many so passionately believe - that states should decide such issues on their own....

Matthew Wright's Channel 5 show is being investigated by the media regulator over a survey of offensive words.

Two strong explosions rocked Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, killing more than 40 people and leaving residents dashing through bloody streets littered with debris, state media reported.

UK manufacturing output bounced back in March, figures show, but overall industrial output fell due to a drop in oil and gas production.