MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A gay couple showed up before dawn to be the first to register under Uruguay's new "marriage equality law," but another pair was married first Monday after getting special permission for a rushed wedding at a hospital where one of the men is dying of cancer."It was very emotional," said Luisa Salaberry, the civil registry worker who officiated at the hospital wedding.She said that the ceremony was intimate and that the government waived the usual 10 days of bureaucracy Read more [...]

BOSHAM, England, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Adm. John Woodward, who led the British naval force that recaptured the Falkland Islands from Argentina in 1982, has died. He was 81. Known as "Sandy," Woodward was the nearest available British admiral to the Falkland Islands, a British possession in the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina. Conducting naval exercises in Gibraltar in the Mediterranean Sea, he was chosen to lead the naval command, with two aircraft carriers, ships and submarines, which Read more [...]