Marriage

Same-sex marriage campaigners take fight to Japan top court

The Tokyo High Court concluded the current civil law provisions that do not allow same-sex marriage are still reasonable under the current circumstances.

Australian PM Albanese marries partner in private ceremony

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his new wife Jodie Haydon during their wedding ceremony in Canberra on Nov 29.

Billionaire Richard Branson ‘heartbroken’ as his wife dies, aged 80

(FILES) Chairman of Virgin Airlines, Richard Branson, arrives with his wife Joan at Wellington barracks London for Princess Diana's memorial service on August 31, 2007. British entrepreneur Richard Branson paid tribute on November 26, 2025 to his wife Joan Templeman shortly after announcing her death, saying "life will never be the same without her". The founder of the Virgin Group had revealed Templeman's death, aged 80, in an Instagram post late on November 25, saying he was "heartbroken". (Photo by Carl DE SOUZA / AFP)

South Korea sees largest increase in births in 18 years

The uptick in births was driven largely by women in their 30s.

One spouse is enough, Vatican tells world’s Catholics

FILE PHOTO: A couple kiss during their wedding photo session under the Vatican colonnade in the Vatican, April 29, 2025. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File Photo

Liza Wang and Law Kar Ying take long-overdue wedding photos in Bhutan

Liza Wang and Law Kar Ying had their wedding photos taken in Bhutan.

Cash vouchers for newlyweds as China tries to boost marriages

The incentive is one thought up by the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, and comes as the authorities loo to boost interest in marriage and having children.

South Korea’s chaebol marriage shift: Young scions marrying within business circles, not politics

More members of the conglomerate families were also marrying those without prominent business backgrounds.

In China, wedding bells are ringing in nightclubs, a subway station and on snowy mountain peaks

A newlywed couple holding a giant cut-out of the Chinese character Xi, which reads double happiness, after they registered their marriage at the Huguo Guanyin Temple, in Beijing, China.

ICC confirms war crimes charges against Uganda's Kony

One of the world's most wanted rebel chiefs, Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army, is seen in this image taken from Reuters TV in Nairobi May 24, 2006 REUTERS/Reuters TV

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