British prime minister’s wife joins thousands of revelers at London’s Gay Pride parade

August 26th, 2009 Revelers paint Spanish town red in tomato fightBUNOL, Spain — Tens of thousands of revelers pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes in a good-natured battle that filled the streets of a Spanish town with rivers of red pulp. Bunol's town hall estimated more than 40,000 people, some from as far away as Japan and Australia, took up arms Wednesday with 100 tons of tomatoes in the yearly food fight known as the "Tomatina," now in its 64th year.

August 1st, 2009 American-Dutch gay couples to wed in AmsterdamAMSTERDAM — The mayor of Amsterdam is officiating at the weddings of five American-Dutch homosexual couples on a boat during the city's Gay Pride festival, in part to challenge the United States to legalize gay marriage. Mayor Job Cohen also performed the first Dutch ceremonies after the Netherlands legalized same-sex marriage in 2001.

July 25th, 2009 Obamas attend Marine Corps paradeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are spending an evening out to watch a Marine Corps parade. Before the event, Obama spoke to a small group of military families.

July 25th, 2009 Obamas attend Marines Corps paradeWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are spending an evening out to watch a Marines Corps parade. Before the event, Obama spoke to a small group of military families.

July 10th, 2009 UK PM's wife ups profileL'AQUILA, Italy — The wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has kept a blog of her activities on the sidelines of the G-8 Summit, stepping up attempts to boost her public profile while her husband's popularity is plummeting. As the summit wrapped up Friday, Sarah Brown offered readers updates on topics ranging from her lunch to maternal mortality and food security.

June 29th, 2009 Gay Pride Parade marks 40 years after NYC uprisingNEW YORK — Decades after a riot at a Greenwich Village bar sparked a movement for equal rights, gay New Yorkers celebrated their gains at Sunday's gay pride parade and lamented the state has not legalized same-sex marriage. The annual march down Fifth Avenue commemorated the Stonewall rebellion of 40 years ago, when patrons at a gay bar resisted the police.

June 13th, 2009 Gay pride activists march in Rome, Warsaw, ZagrebROME — Tens of thousands of gay rights activists demanding rights for same-sex couples marched through the streets of Rome on Saturday in a gay pride parade. Smaller marches wound through the capitals of heavily Catholic Poland and in Croatia, where counterdemonstrators shouted anti-gay and nationalist slogans.

June 8th, 2009 Michelle Obama meets with UK prime minister's wifeLONDON — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama made an unannounced visit to London on Monday after attending D-Day commemorations in Europe.

June 3rd, 2009 Reports: Fourth UK minister quitsLONDON — British media say a fourth member of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government has quit amid the lawmakers' expenses scandal. The BBC and Sky News reported Wednesday that Communities Secretary Hazel Blears planned to resign her post.

April 30th, 2009 LONDON - Gurkha ex-servicemen seeking to settle down in Britain after serving in the British Army Thursday celebrated the defeat of government attempts to curtail their residency rights. Some 27 rebel MPs from the ruling Labour party joined opposition ranks to vote for a motion calling upon the government to give all Gurkhas who have served in the British armed forces equal rights to settle in Britain.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister, has turned to renting designer clothes to wear at official engagements, it has emerged. The 45-year-old was said to have dug into her own pocket to borrow Brett Lintner and Graeme Black apparel during the recent G20 summit.

March 26th, 2009 DHAKA - Thousands thronged the Martyrs' Memorial on Bangladesh's 38th Independence Day Thursday but, for the first time, there was no ceremonial parade because of security concerns. Security apprehensions have heightened since the Feb 25-26 mutiny at the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Pilkhana headquarters here during which about 80 people were killed.

February 5th, 2009 LONDON - Late American actress Marilyn Monroe will be the subject of a new dance musical set 'Marilyn' to light up London's West End. 'Marilyn' will follow the charmed and often troubled life of the blonde screen legend, with ballerina Zara Deakin taking the title role and performing songs like 'My heart belongs to daddy' from Monroe's 1960 movie 'Let's Make Love', reported imdb.com.

January 25th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala unfurled the national flag on the Marina Beach here and took salute at the parade Monday, in a function marked by the absence of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who was in hospital with back pain.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gaily-decorated elephants that have been the darling of cheering crowds each year on the Republic Day parade will be missing this time as organisers have decided to pull them out to cut down on time. 'Over a period of time the parade has become very monotonous and repetitive, so we have decided to omit the elephants to try and make the parade concise and compact,' a defence ministry official told IANS.