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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.