HEADLINE: Obama extends health care rights to gay partners

CAPTION: A major victory for gay rights. President Barack Obama is ordering hospitals to extend medical rights to same-sex couples. (Apri
l 16)
It''s being...

Same-sex couples wed in Iowa

A lesbian couple has apparently become the first same-sex couple to legally wed in Iowa since a court ruling took effect legalizing gay marriage. (Apri
l 27)
...

A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment.

A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over whether a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment.

English/Nat

The people of the Irish Republic are voting Friday on whether to amend their constitution to allow div
orce.
The proposed amendment would allow couples to divorce who have...

HEADLINE: Custody battle for Jackson's kids begins

CAPTION: Michael Jackson's family moved quickly Monday to take control of his complicated personal and financial affairs, winning temporary custody of his three children and...

English/Nat

The 15 year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana is officially ov
er.
The divorce was finalised Wednesday when a decree absolute was issued by...

1. Wide of St Peter's Cathedral

2. Document title: "Family and human procrea
tion"
3. N
ewspapers
4. Headline reading "Unmarried couples and fertilisation, the eclipse of God", pan...

HEADLINE: Hearings begin for polygamist sect kids

CAPTION: The parents of the more than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch will begin Monday laying out their individual cases and learning what they must do...

HEADLINE: Judge rules against Florida gay adoption ban

CAPTION: Florida's strict law banning adoption of children by gay people was found unconstitutional Tuesday by a state judge who declared there was no legal or...

English/Nat

America's leading surrogate baby agent flew into Britain this week and straight into a storm of controversy over his plans to offer infertile British couples the promise of a...

1. Map of Italy.

2. File film scenes inside Referendum headquarters, where people record their signatures, inside cou
rt.
3. Interview with Liberal Party leader Giovanni M
alagodi.
4. Rome street...

HEADLINE: Judge: Cuban man should get custody of his daughter

CAPTION: A circuit court judge says a Cuban man should be reunited with his daughter. Florida authorities are pushing for the 5-year old girl to remain in Miami...

Child advocates say New York's marriage law that allows children as young as 14 years old to wed can trap minors in sexual abuse and domestic violence.Democratic Assemblywoman Amy Paulin on Tuesday introduced a bill to raise the minimum...

Tokyo - 2 February, 2010

1. Wide shot, US Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell enters news confe
rence
2. Cutaway,
reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kurt Campbell, US Assis
tant Secretary:
"I''ve been...

Fertility treatment, called co-IVF , is allowing lesbian couples to both contribute to the biological creation of their baby.

One woman's eggs are mixed in a...

English/Nat

The Danish woman who ran into a legal storm when she left her baby outside a restaurant is finally free of the American cou
rts.
Annette Sorenson attended a New York court to hear...

HEADLINE: Dear Abby: 'I support same-sex marriage'

CAPTION: Watch as Jeanne Phillips, the woman America knows as 'Dear Abby,' explains her support for gay marriage. Phillips is being honored this week by Parents and Friends of...

1. Wide of anti-gay marriage demonstration, one of three marches

2. Wide of protesters waving
flags
3. Protester holding banner reading: (French) "We are all made by a man an
d a woman"
4. Set up...

Eldorado, Texas - 22 July 2008

1. Wide of women, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, standing in c
ircle
2. Medium of woman walking, talking on
cell phone
3....

HEADLINE: Obama extends health care rights to gay partners

CAPTION: A major victory for gay rights. President Barack Obama is ordering hospitals to extend medical rights to same-sex couples. (Apri
l...

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY

1. Various of Madonna's lawyer, Alan Chinula, arriving at high court

2. "Eye of the child" charity representative arr
iving
3. Cutaway of ph
otographer
4. High court judge, Ivy...

AP Television

FILE: London, UK - 1 September,
2008
1. Guy Ritchie and Madonna walking arm in arm on red carpet at ''Rock ''n'' Rolla'
'...