Domestic Partnership

Cop gets 15 years for murdering wife (The Herald)

16 May 2008

A HARARE policeman who killed his estranged wife at the height of a domestic dispute and dumped her body in a dam in Epworth has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for murder.

Gay couples 'ecstatic' over ruling (USA Today)

16 May 2008

Lauren Patton was still in shock Thursday four hours after her neighbor woke her up, unable to withhold the news any longer: The California Supreme Court made its historic decision, and same-sex marriage was legal.

Haqqani Back in D.C., Where Everybody Knows His Name (Washington Post)

16 May 2008

Most ambassadors gain real influence only after years of working Washington's corridors of power -- and often only with the help of expensive lobbying firms. But Husain Haqqani, the ambassador-designate from Pakistan, already knows almost everyone who counts.