With time, palace and church change their tune on divorce
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So the Prince of Wales is marrying a divorce, and hardly anyone cares. What a difference nearly seven decades (and millions of British divorces) can make.
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In South Korea, once a rigidly patriarchal society, a centuries-old preference for baby boys is fast receding.
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Verdiâs opera has two faces. It is spectacle on a royal scale, but also a love story wedding jealousy, honor and revenge to regime change.
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Nearly two million Britons considered  ending their marriages over Christmas and the massive number  who took the next step have prompted lawyers to dub the first  Monday after New Year's "D-day." Divorce-day that is.
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The Vatican has revised its guidelines on marriage annulments, acknowledging some abuses and saying Tuesday that it wants the practice that some critics have dubbed "Catholic divorce" handled in a more serious way.
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The Roman Catholic Church in Spain moved to quench any notion of a sea-change in its attitude to the use of contraceptives, saying remarks by one of its top people had been misunderstood and that doctrine remained as before.
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Rudolph W. Giuliani tapped into the struggles of millions of families who regroup when a new marriage, or recoupling, follows a breakup.
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Marriage, post-9/11 curiosity, and a shared interest in issues such as immigration are key reasons behind the shift.
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It&#39;s hard to break old habits, and after eight years of bickering, sniping and cockeyed stares, and a celebrated divorce that put almost 3,000 miles between them
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The leaders want their faith to be enshrined as the national religion, governing marriage, divorce and family inheritance.
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IRONTON, Ohio - The bride wore white, strains of the "Wedding March" were in the air, and there was a minister and several guests. But the location of a young couple's weekend nuptials was not so traditional.
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The Vatican has clarified the guidelines it wants church judges to follow when making decisions on marriage annulments, saying Tuesday that it wants the practice that some critics have dubbed "Catholic divorce" handled more seriously.
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Nearly 70 years ago the very idea of a divorcee in the royal family rocked the British monarchy. On Thursday, Queen Elizabeth II accepted a fact of modern life and extended an official welcome to a divorcee as wife for the heir to the throne.
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The first anniversary of the court decision sanctioning gay marriage in Massachusetts was marked with little fanfare Thursday, but both sides in the controversy said it was simply the calm before a renewed political and legal storm.
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Internet sites such as Friends Reunited are unwittingly fuelling a surge in marital break-up as bored husbands and wives contact old flames, relationship counsellors warned yesterday as official figures showed divorce has reached a seven-year high.
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Lawyers and judges are pushing to have New York's divorce law changed, saying it is archaic and heightens hostilities between spouses.
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LONDON, Jan. 7 -- Thousands of Britons called their divorce lawyers or marriage counselors Monday, a day widely referred to here as D-Day because of the large number of people filing for divorce after spending long periods of time with spouses over the holidays.