President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he supports gay marriage boosted the hopes of gay rights groups around the world that other leaders will follow his example, though opponents

China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dragged them through the streets. In Egypt, laws

Politicians and friends responded to the death of Charles Colson, the special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian