President Hu Jintao arrived in southwestern China on Friday to observe the country's devastated earthquake zone, state-run media reported.

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The California Supreme Court today struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Several gay and lesbian couples, along with the city of San Francisco and gay rights groups, sued to overturn state laws allowing only marriages between a man and a woman.

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A Missouri woman who allegedly posed as a 16-year-old boy on the social networking Web site MySpace.com was indicted Thursday on conspiracy and other charges. A federal indictment accuses Lori Drew of using the site to feign romantic interest in a girl who committed suicide after her online love interest spurned her.

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The sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped. "I didn't want to do it this way," she says, "but it's the only way I know that's going to work." For an online generation, the Internet offers a chance to communicate without having to face someone or fear their judgment.

In a preview of the political onslaught Michelle Obama may face in the fall, the Tennessee Republican Party unveiled a Web video Thursday highlighting her comment that she was proud of America "for the first time in my adult life."

Her husband and five children were hacked and clubbed to death. But now Iphigenia Mukantabana has lunch with the killer and works with his wife in a rare story of reconciliation, reports Christiane Amanpour.

At least 68,000 and as many as 128,000 people have died in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the coastal nation earlier this month, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday.

Former presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Sen. Barack Obama at a rally tonight in Michigan. Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton had sought Edwards' backing since the former North Carolina senator quit the race in January. "The Democratic voters have made their choice, and so have I," Edwards said.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Thursday ordered 90 more helicopters for rescue missions in Sichuan province, adding urgency to the massive relief operations under way since Monday's devastating earthquake.

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An Austrian man has confessed to killing five members of his family with an ax, Vienna police said Wednesday.

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Hillary Clinton today reiterated her vow to stay in the presidential race, but she said it would be a "terrible mistake" for her supporters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama. "I'm going to work my heart out for whoever our nominee is -- obviously I'm still hoping to be that nominee," she said in a CNN interview.

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