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| Federal judge strikes down gay marriage ban in Pennsylvania | | | HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday struck down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage, the latest in a series of court decisions across the nation determining gay couples' rights to wed. The ruling makes Pennsylvania the 19th U.S. state to allow gay marriage in a trend that has gained momentum since the Supreme Court ruled last June that legally married same-sex couples are eligible for federal benefits. (Reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Dina Kyriakidou) |
| 'Shield' actor Michael Jace arrested for murder of wife | | | Actor Michael Jace, known for playing a cop in the cable television drama "The Shield," was arrested on suspicion of murder on Tuesday after his wife was found shot to death in their Los Angeles home, police said. His wife, 40-year-old April Jace, was found dead at the home in the Hyde Park section of South Los Angeles when police responded to a report of domestic violence shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time on Monday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The shooting took place in the presence of the couple's two young children, who are now in protective custody, Los Angeles Police Lieutenant John Jenal told City News Service. In the 2011 filing, April Jace indicated she had been a public school teacher in Los Angeles for the past 10 years. |
| Al Jazeera warns life of its journalist jailed in Egypt is at risk | |  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Qatar-based satellite network Al Jazeera has written to world powers asking them to secure the release of one of its journalists jailed in Egypt, accusing the authorities in Cairo of endangering his life. In a letter seen by Reuters, a lawyer acting for the pan-Arab network said the health of Abdullah Elshamy, one of four Al Jazeera reporters being held in Egypt, was "of the gravest possible concern and in need of immediate attention". "Mr Elshamy's situation is of grave concern; "Time is of the essence." Al Jazeera's intervention, designed to put pressure on former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ahead of a May 26-27 presidential election which he is expected to win, is likely to further sour already poor Qatari-Egyptian relations.
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| Ryan Gosling debut fails to light Cannes critics' fire | |  By Alexandria Sage CANNES France (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Ryan Gosling burned up the screen at the Cannes film festival with his directorial debut on Tuesday, but critics' reaction was a damp squib. Gosling's "Lost River", which was to premiere at Cannes on Tuesday night, includes enough images of blazing buildings to satisfy the most ardent pyromaniac. Tim Robey of Britain's Daily Telegraph called the film - set in a near-deserted community pockmarked by scorched houses - a "crapocalypse." Gosling's movie, which he also wrote, is one of 19 to compete in the "Un Certain Regard" category for emerging directors at the prestigious festival on the French Riviera. The Hollywood heartthrob has been a frequent visitor to Cannes as an actor, most recently accompanying two Nicolas Winding Refn films - the bloody slasher set in Bangkok, "Only God Forbids", and pulp thriller "Drive".
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| Victorious Modi fights tears in first address to parliament | |  By Shyamantha Asokan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Narendra Modi fought back tears in an emotional first address to his party in parliament on Tuesday, after the Gujarat chief minister swept to power in an election that has changed the face of politics in the country. Modi will be India's next prime minister after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a historic victory in a ballot that ended on Friday. The win handed the BJP its first parliamentary majority and reduced the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty's ruling Congress party to 44 seats, the lowest ever tally for a party that won independence and has ruled for most of the 67 years since. He addressed BJP lawmakers filling more than half the seats of Lok Sabha with uplifting words that commentators immediately contrasted with the often wooden addresses of his predecessor Manmohan Singh.
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| Nuns, backed by pope, warn of human trafficking at World Cup | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic nuns backed by Pope Francis on Tuesday raised the alarm over increased risks of human trafficking, exploitation of workers, forced prostitution and sexual tourism at the soccer World Cup in Brazil next month. The nuns, whose campaign is also backed by the U.S. embassy to the Vatican, announced an international campaign called "Play in Favour of Life - Denounce Human Trafficking," on the risks they say will be associated with the June 12 - July 13 tournament. "We need to make people conscious of what happens on the margins of big world events such as the FIFA World Cup and the suffering of those who are trafficked," said Sister Carmen Sammut, a Maltese nun and one of the campaign organisers. "Without this awareness, without acting together in favour of human dignity, the World Cup finals may turn out to be a terrible shame instead of a feast for humanity," she told a news conference at the Vatican.
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| Generations collide in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' | |  By Ernest Scheyder NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trapped in a dystopian future where marauding, shape-shifting robots have turned New York's Central Park into a concentration camp, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine has no choice in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" but to travel back in time to alter history. A sequel to both 2006's "X Men: The Last Stand" and 2011's "X-Men: First Class," the film begins in a future where Sentinel robots are trying to destroy mutants, and follows Wolverine as he travels back to the 1970s, when he does not have the use of his silver-colored claws. "The X-Men movies always have a theme of disenfranchisement or minorities or discrimination," said Jackman, 45, the best actor Oscar nominee for the musical "Les Miserables" whose action film career took off with X-Men. The film, expected to be one of the biggest at the box office this year, has had a dose of unwelcome publicity after two men accused director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing them as teenagers, charges he denies.
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| Anti-Obama author D'Souza pleads guilty to campaign finance violation | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation, avoiding a trial that had been expected to begin the same day in a Manhattan federal court. D'Souza, known for his biting criticism of President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty to one criminal count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. The plea came four months after Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged D'Souza with using "straw donors" to give funds in 2012 to Republican Wendy Long's U.S. Senate campaign in New York. One of the friends was Denise Joseph, who was engaged to D'Souza while he was still married to another woman.
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