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700 couples are set to celebrate the first day of 'gay weddings' (Telegraph.co.uk) - Almost 700 same-sex couples are planning to conduct "gay weddings" on the first day such ceremonies can take place.

Fresh face of terror: weddings at gunpoint (The Telegraph) - Jammu, Dec. 18: Abdul Ghani and his family were preparing to turn in for the winter night when the gunmen barged in. They hadn’t come to kill anyone and didn’t want any money, the leader of the militants assured the family. They only wanted Ghani’s pretty, 14-year-old daughter.

Weddings for Dec. 18 (The Advocate Messenger) - Leigh Strahinic and Eduardo Arino de la Rubia were married Oct. 24 in Nashville, Tenn. After a reception, the couple made a wedding trip to Los Cabos, Mexico.

Rifts and unions (Northern Territory News) - BREAK-UPS, make-ups, weddings, babies, disappearances and phone-throwing incidents - 2005 had a story line to compete with any soapie. DELTA Goodrem was labelled an adulteress and the cause of the demise of boyfriend Bryan McFadden's marriage to Kerry Katona.

Weddings and engagements (Milford Daily News) - BELLINGHAM -- Elizabeth D. Woods, daughter of Charles L. Woods of Reading and Shelby J. Woods of Danville, N.H., and Wayne E. Demery, son of Patricia A. Capuano of Blackstone, were married Oct. 14, 2005, in a double ring ceremony by the sea in Christ Church, Barbados.

HUGH'S WHO (Sunday Mail) - UPPERCRUST Hugh Grant is everyone's idea of the archetypal English gent. But the Love Actually and Four Weddings star is as Scottish as William Wallace.

Dream Symbols - Bells (BellaOnline) - Throughout society and culture around the world, bells have a multitude of meanings and purposes. Bells symbolize beginnings and endings. Bells are rung at weddings , funerals and to kick off boxing rounds on the Jerry Springer show. Church bells gather people by summoning them to church or events.

Baby boom predicted among grieving parents (USA Today) - Giggling women swarm outside a little gray tent in Block D of a sprawling refugee camp. The attraction is one tiny miracle 2-month-old Asmaul Tzuchina, swaying peacefully in a cloth hammock.

Demand for female bodyguards rising (The Peninsula) - Doha: One of the major fallouts of rising affluence in Qatar is a growing demand for female bodyguards, reports Al Sharq. It has become more of a necessity than fashion for many Qatari businesswomen to hire female bodyguards, especially during meetings, trips abroad and weddings.

UK Weddings: Straights Can Wait (CBS News) - Contributor Petrie Hosken comments on the pending same-sex civil unions in England.