Paloma Faith, Jools Holland and Duffy are among the famous faces showing their support for MyFrackingQuestions.org, launching today.

Ballroom dancing organisers have defended a proposal which could prevent same sex dance partners from competing against mixed sex couples.

Same sex couples will be able to marry in England and Wales from the stroke of midnight tonight.

AS an Irish citizen, I would have waded into this whole Panti / Iona thing earlier but I live in Brighton where everyone is busy bringing up their ordinary children in ordinary same sex households and getting married to whoever they ordinarily love without further ado, and to be honest it passed me by.

Nick Clegg has been embarrassingly forced to withdraw comments in which he branded opponents of gay marriage “bigots”.

A dozen protesters have been arrested amid violent scenes at the Syrian embassy in London as the United Nations failed to agree a resolution despite a new wave of killing by the Damascus regime.

Gay men will be able to give blood in the UK from today as government restrictions were officially lifted, the British Department of Health said.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange remained in a British jail last night after the Swedish authorities appealed against a decision to grant him bail.

The court holding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was besieged by protesters and media today.

Thousands of protesters gathered on the streets of London today to demonstrate against Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit.

Pope Benedict’s historic arrival in Britain today was overshadowed by comments comparing the nation with a “third world country”.

Gay rights campaigners in Britain today rejected reported claims by the Vatican’s second-in-command that child sex abuse by priests is linked to homosexuality.

PROTESTERS gathered outside the main Catholic church in Britain yesterday to call for the Pope’s resignation over clerical sex abuse.

Protesters gathered outside the main Catholic church in the UK today to call for the Pope’s resignation over clerical sex abuse.

Moscow police have violently dispersed a gay pride parade banned by the authorities.

CHILDREN raised in same sex families do just as well as other children living with heterosexual parents, an Irish child expert has claimed.

Police today arrested one of 16 suspects who allegedly shouted racist and homophobic chants at a football match.

The success of today’s Gay Pride parade in Belfast has been hailed as a call for a more tolerant and equal society in the North.

The Olympic torch relay was hit by demonstrations by Tibet campaigners as it made its way through a snowy London today.

A leading human rights campaigner today welcomed the revelation from Harry Potter author JK Rowling that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.

Russian police detained gay rights activists, including at least two European lawmakers and the British campaigner Peter Tatchell, as they tried to hold a demonstration in central Moscow today while members of a hostile crowd punched the activists and pelted them with eggs.

THE former president of Iran flew into a political storm yesterday, as he arrived at a British university to be awarded an honorary degree.

Gay rights campaigners have urged Paul Scholes to apologise after the Manchester United midfielder allegedly made a homophobic remark during the Champions League victory over Benfica.

POLITICS, as diverse as they come, dominated the media in Britain yesterday in the wake of an admission by the Liberal Democrat president, that he was homosexual and the “outing” in a different context of George Galloway from a television show.

Robbie Williams has been told by a leading gay rights activist he should donate the libel damages he won on Tuesday over false claims he is a closet homosexual to a gay charity.

BRITISH gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The election of Cardinal Ratzinger as the new Pope is a disaster for women, gay people and liberal humanitarian values.

Jamelia looked every inch a superstar tonight as she arrived for the Mobo awards.

REVOLUTIONARY reforms for new ‘gay marriages’ were proposed by British ministers yesterday.

A British court today began considering whether Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe should be arrested and extradited on torture charges.

BRITISH Government plans to give gay men and lesbians the same legal rights as married couples were yesterday criticised as “discriminatory” for ignoring unmarried,

EXILED victims of President Robert Mugabe’s regime staged a noisy protest at Lord’s cricket ground as play began in the first match of the England-Zimbabwe cricket Test series.

ROBERT and Grace Mugabe swept out of Paris yesterday afternoon after a high profile summit and shopping trip which defied calls from the EU for the couple to be banned.

POLITICIANS and human rights campaigners yesterday launched a fresh attack on French President Jacques Chirac as he greeted his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe at a summit in Paris.

Controversial human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell was released by French police today after being questioned over his demonstration against Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe who is attending a summit in Paris.

A HUMAN rights protest marked the start of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s controversial visit to Paris for a Franco-African summit, and one activist filed a complaint to urge the African leader’s arrest on torture charges.

Magistrates in the UK have been asked to issue a warrant for the arrest of former US Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger for alleged crimes against humanity in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Around 200 exiled Zimbabweans and pro-democracy activists have gathered in London to call on President Robert Mugabe to allow free and fair elections.

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell today said he will press authorities to arrest Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on torture charges when he arrives in Australia for an international summit next month.