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Malin Alexandersson and Leif Lundgren celebrated 08-08-08 day by climbing on to the roof of the Stockholm Globe arena to tie the knot. The happy couple had to climb to the top of the 80 metre higher Stockholm landmark with the help of safety harnesses while their guests instead followed the wedding ceremony from a nearby balcony. The heavy rain that hit Stockholm on Friday was close to throwing a spanner in the works - but the rain ceased just prior to the beginning of the ceremony. The couple won the right to matrimony on the Globe's roof in a...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2008 – After matching servicemembers re-entering the civilian work force with military friendly employers, “Hire a Hero” is stepping outside its box and trying some matchmaking of a different kind. The troop-support organization has teamed with Dreamworks Television and Mark Burnett Productions to help two deserving military couples have their dream weddings. The gesture is a thank you for their service and commitment to the country, according to the Hire a Hero Web site. “Providing something like this is just great,” said Rob Barr, a Hire a Hero representative. “It’s showing support for the troops, and...

DACULA - As the famous twang of Hank Williams Jr. blasted from an SUV stereo Friday afternoon, about 30 folks socialized, sipped soda and puffed on cigarettes. No, this wasn't a Fourth of July backyard barbecue. It was the run-up to a wedding. In a Waffle House parking lot. The lucky couple, George "Bubba" Mathis and Pamela Christian - both 23 and employees at the Dacula diner located at the Ga. Highway 316/U.S. Highway 29 interchange - wouldn't have it any other way. "I don't know, it's something different," Mathis said while fixing his tie prior to the ceremony. For...

Fox News correspondent Molly Henneberg, 34, married Marine Captain Chris Nagel, 30, in her hometown of Falls Church on Saturday. According to the DC Post, they met at a Christmas party seven months ago and got engaged three months later. She's covering the 2008 campaign. He's a military lawyer. First marriage for both.....

The walk down the aisle yesterday was only a matter of yards. Yet for Martyn Compton it meant everything. Indeed, his determination to make the distance was matched only by that of the beautiful young woman he was about to marry. And when he falteringly held out his hand for her to slip the gold ring on his finger, they both finally fulfilled the dream they had fought desperately against all the odds to make a reality. It was so nearly destroyed when, two years ago, Martyn, a Lance-Corporal in the Household Cavalry, was badly burned in an ambush in...

Picture exclusive: The tyrant and his bride...a 'liberal' Mugabe at his wedding in 1961 Last updated at 00:26am on 06.07.08  In white gloves and smart suit, with a carnation in his buttonhole, this smiling bridegroom is the man who has brought Zimbabwe to its knees.When Robert Mugabe married his first wife Sally in 1961, he was a 37-year-old liberal nationalist who wanted to make his country - then Southern Rhodesia - a model multiracial democracy.The man who took this never before published photograph, retired airline manager Kevin Nolan, was a guest at the ceremony.     Love and politics:...

(Video) Here http://allthingscnn.blogspot.com/2008/06/john-king-dana-bash-married.html It had been taken down on YouTube earlier, but bless the world wide web, it's back, showing the two CNN power players saying "I do."

AMMAN -- A jealous Jordanian man has been charged with murder for stabbing his teenage cousin to death during her wedding to another man, a security official said. "The 26-year-old suspect stabbed his 16-year-old cousin with a dagger five times in the chest and stomach inside the court as she and another male relative were being married by a judge," the official told Agence France-Presse. "She was rushed to hospital but died there. The man, who apparently killed her because she refused to marry him, was arrested immediately." If convicted, the man could face the death penalty over the incident...

Jenna Hager to Ellen: Use Our Ranch for Your Wedding By Stephen M. Silverman Originally posted Friday May 23, 2008 03:50 PM EDT From left: Laura Bush, Jenna Hager and Ellen DeGeneresJenna Hager to Ellen: Use Our Ranch for Your Wedding John McCain may disapprove of Ellen DeGeneres and partner Portia DeRossi's intentions to marry, but there's another Republican who is only too happy to help with the upcoming nuptials: Jenna Hager.

Henry Hager and Jenna Bush exchange vows at the altar on Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, May 10, 2008. Proceeding over the wedding ceremony is the Rev. Kirbyjohn Caldwell. Photo taken May 10, 2008. President Bush, center, reaches for a marine dress uniform cap that fell off as his father, former President H. W. Bush, looks on before boarding Marine One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Sunday, May 11, 2008 after the wedding of their daughter Jenna Bush Saturday night to Henry Hager. Souvenir coffee mugs celebrating the wedding of President George W. Bush's daughter, Jenna Bush...

Houston Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell said he was taken by surprise when First Daughter Jenna Bush asked him to preside over her wedding. (Video)

Against the backdrop of a stunning Texas sunset, near a lake on the Bush family's 1,600-acre ranch, President Bush walked his daughter, Jenna, down the aisle to her groom, the White House said. Jenna Bush and Henry Hager say "I do" on Saturday. "We're mighty blessed," President Bush said. Jenna, 26, married Henry Hager, the son of a well-connected Virginia Republican. "The wedding was spectacular. It was all we could have hoped for," the president said Sunday before boarding Air Force One. "We're mighty blessed." Wearing a white silk organza Oscar de la Renta gown, the bride stood with the...

Today at about the time this thread is posted the President will be walking his daughter Jenna down the aisle in Crawford Texas as she marries Henry Hager. The White House has promised to release a couple of photos of this very private event tomorrow. On Friday evening the President attended a wedding rehearsal dinner near his ranch and the previous evening the Vice President spoke at an event in Washington celebrating the 60th year of the nation of Israel. Pray for President Bush -- Day 2795 . Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

Groom, many guests of one wedding will be on call for another - that of the president's daughter Saturday, May 10, 2008 WEST — Nora Bartosh has been waiting for her wedding, scheduled for today, for the past six years. Now, the 34-year-old West drugstore clerk is worried that a president's daughter could steal her groom and thus her special day. The groom, all eight groomsmen and about 150 of the guests work in McLennan County law enforcement. That leaves Bartosh hoping that everything goes smoothly in and around President Bush's Crawford-area ranch today as first daughter Jenna says her...

The crowd from the Crawford Texas Peace House may be sitting this one out, but the sanctity of President Bush’s daughter’s wedding Saturday won’t necessarily stop anti-homosexual protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church from trying to crash the blessed event. Shirley Phelps Roper, daughter of the leader of the Topeka, Kan., church whose members picket at locations where they believe homosexuality is being encouraged, said eight church members will picket near Jenna Bush’s wedding Saturday night. The protesters will set up at Prairie Chapel Road and Farm-to-Market Road 185 from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Roper said. Meanwhile, peace activist Kay...

U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

ATLANTA: Investigators initially thought a terrorism suspect may have been using his wedding plans to cloak the real purpose of his overseas travel, an FBI agent testified Friday. . . . Inside the lining of the bag, agents found two CDs, maps of Washington, D.C., and Fairfax, Virginia, and some scraps of paper with writing on them.Previously, prosecutors have alleged that "casing videos" of the Capitol building, the World Bank and a fuel tank farm were sent by computer from a nonprofit where Sadequee worked in Atlanta to a counterpart in London.

On (OPSEC DELETED: date) in July 2008, FReeper Warrior Nurse (Major Jeff OPSEC DELETED: last name) will be united in holy matrimony, (read: take the plunge), with the Miss Lyrica (OPSEC DELETED: last name) at the military Chapel at (OPSEC DELETED: base name) in Maryland. Below is a photo of the happy couple.Please join me in sending them our hearty congratulations and best wishes!!

Nicolas Sarkozy 'to wed Carla Bruni next month' Charles Bremner, of The Times, Paris President Sarkozy is planning to marry Carla Bruni, his singer girlfriend, in early February, just over two months after meeting her and three since his wife divorced him, according to French and Italian reports today. As the Elysee Palace made no attempt to deny an imminent wedding, pollsters said that the President's exhibition of the former Italian supermodel and his haste in replacing Cecilia, his wife, explained part of a seven-point slump in his approval rating over the past month. "Speedy Sarko", 52, today gave the...

WATERFORD, Wis. - Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings. Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey. Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, Texas, awaiting orders to ship off to Europe during World War II. "I didn't know I was getting married, I just went to spend Christmas with him and I got down there, he had the wedding all arranged," said Ruth Southey, 85, who lives at the Waterford Senior Living...

Calculating the Risks in Pakistan A small group of U.S. military experts and intelligence officials convened in Washington for a classified war game last year, exploring strategies for securing Pakistan's nuclear arsenal if the country's political institutions and military safeguards began to fall apart. The secret exercise — conducted without official sponsorship from any government agency, apparently due to the sensitivity of its subject — was one of several such games the U.S. government has conducted in recent years examining various options and scenarios for Pakistan's nuclear weapons: How many troops might be required for a military intervention in...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Four Taleban rebels were killed when their ammunition exploded during a wedding party they attended as special guests in a southern Afghan village, police said on Saturday. Eight other rebels were injured in the blast in southern Zabul province late on Friday, the provincial police chief said. "There was a wedding party and a group of Taleban was also attending as special guests. For some reason an explosion took place in the room they had gathered," he said. "In that blast four Taleban were killed and eight others were injured." Police were investigating, he added. The Taleban,...

SIERRA VISTA — A first-grade class at Huachuca Mountain Elementary School was buzzing with excitement Tuesday morning. They knew something their student teacher Rebecca Schaeffer and her husband to be, Spc. Jerome Horrace, didn’t. Horrace had returned Saturday for a mid-tour break from Iraq, and Susan Hilliard’s class of 23 students had adopted his unit, writing letters and sending cards to the 1-28 Intelligence Section at Forward Operating Base Falcon in the Baghdad city limits. The section is officially part of the Black Lions, as the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Infantry Division...

PARIS - Mon dieu! Billionaire bad boys Ron Burkle and Steve Bing rocked the Champs Elysées with their good pal Bill Clinton over the weekend. The hound dogs were in town for the wedding of Clinton's right-hand man, Doug Band, and handbag designer Lily Rafii. But even as Bubba, womanizing moviemaker Bing and model-loving supermarket magnet Burkle prowled Paris, the party scene was relatively dim for the City of Light. "No one goes to Paris in August. Everything is shut and all of the good people are in the South of France," sniffed a doorman. Nonetheless, it was a nonstop...

Yao Ming weds basketball beauty SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's most eligible bachelor, basketball sensation Yao Ming, married his long-term girlfriend Ye Li at a jealously guarded private ceremony at a luxury hotel in their hometown Shanghai on Monday. The 7ft 6in (2.26-metre) Houston Rockets centre and his 6ft 2in (1.90m) bride tied the knot after a seven-year relationship at a Chinese-style ceremony at the Shangri-La Hotel in Shanghai's financial district. The three-hour ceremony was attended by more than 70 family members, said a statement released on behalf of the couple. Dozens of security guards patrolled the hotel, across the river...

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Threat Matrix: July 2007 June 2007 Threat Matrix Index Theat Matrix Handbook Theat Matrix 'BOLO' Invaluable Tips Preparedness US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows. He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said. But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program,...

Hitting the wedding date jackpot, 7/7/07 BY TANIA PADGETT tania.padgett@newsday.com July 4, 2007 Last year, when Jeffrey Neale, 28, and Elizabeth Wiener, 26, were planning their wedding, Neale was more than happy to leave the details to his fiancee. That is, except one: He wanted them to be married on July 7, 2007. "We had to get that date," said Neale, an assistant vice president at AIG Financial Products Corp. in Wilton, Conn. "Nobody is going to forget it and triple 7s are lucky." Wiener, a graduate student from Roslyn Harbor, heartily agreed, and the couple rushed to put a...

GREEDY COUPLE CASHES IN AFTER THEIR WEDDING SHOWER By Abigail Van Buren Mon Jun 18, 7:57 PM ET DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been invited to the wedding of some casual friends, "Ron" and "Barbie." We sent in our RSVP accepting the invitation, but already we're dreading the day. You see, a few weeks after we mailed it, we had dinner with them. During the dinner, Ron and Barbie blatantly informed us that they had registered for expensive shower items (I had attended the shower) so they could return the gifts for cash. During the conversation, I mentioned...

DAEJEON, South Korea (AFP) - A robot on Sunday acted as master of ceremonies at a South Korean wedding in what its creators claimed as a world first. Tiro the robot assisted at the wedding of Seok Gyeong-Jae, one of the engineers who designed it, and his bride at Daejeon, 130 kilometres (78 miles) south of Seoul. "This is Tiro, master of ceremonies for today's wedding," the robot -- featuring a cone-shaped body, two arms and a dark-glassed face with eyes and a mouth of flashing lights -- said in front of smiling guests. In a male voice, the robot...

5/29/2007 - BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFPN) -- An Airman fighting the war on terrorism from Bagram Air Base said "I do" to his bride May 26 over a video teleconference at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The VTC wedding connected Senior Airman Carlos Moreno of the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron with his new wife, Carolina, from Airman Moreno's home station of Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., with his parents and co-workers in attendance. On the Bagram AB side of the teleconference, Airman Moreno was joined by many of his friends and co-workers from his deployed location as witnesses...

KEY WEST — From wedded bliss to a violent scuffle in a gas station parking lot — maybe this Tallahassee couple will have a more enjoyable honeymoon than wedding day. According to reports, the new bride told officers that the couple had just gotten married that day, Wednesday, and were out celebrating. According to witnesses, the new husband hit his wife, verbally abused her, and then dragged her around the parking lot of Citgo gas station on North Roosevelt Boulevard. Several people, including store employees, told police that the woman was standing next to the car and having trouble putting...

OTTAWA, MAY 23, 2007 (Zenit.org).- It is said you are what you eat, and according to a Catholic wedding dress designer, you're also what you wear. Justina McCaffrey, a haute couture designer, is a vocal promoter of the Catholic idea of the feminine genius in the fashion industry, and insists that the clothes a woman wears can reflect or deflect her dignity, especially on her wedding day. In this interview with ZENIT, McCaffrey spoke about what she thinks is wrong with the wedding industry and the understanding of the role of faith and feminine dignity in the celebration of marriage....

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A friend of mine's son and new daughter in law are trying to win a trip to Cancun. Their wedding photographer is doing a little publicity stunt called 'Wedding Survivor' The couple whose picture gets the most votes will win. Her son's photo will only be up this week. If you would consider voting for them, we'd all appreciate it. they are #27 (it's a long shot of them on a balcony in shadows)

Maj. Greg Soukup, 611th Air Intelligence Squadron, received a short-notice deployment to Iraq just 32 days before his long-time planned wedding to Kristen Owens. They were married by the 611th AIS commander, Lt. Col. Christine Morris, in the squadron, Jan. 26. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Garrett Hothan U.S. Air Force Maj. Greg Soukup Short-notice deployment puts wedding on fast track By 1st Lt. Candice Miller Alaskan Command Public Affairs ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska, Jan. 30, 2007 -- Wedding bells were ringing at Elmendorf Jan. 26 when an officer from the 611th Air Intelligence Squadron and...

“The Sign of the Water into Wine at the Wedding” (John 2:1-11)On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come." His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of...

gets me,” David Mandel said of his bride, Dr. Rebecca Whitney. And Mr. Mandel, an executive producer of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO, is not an easy man to get. “I don’t like human beings,” he said, only half in jest. “I’m bothered by real and perceived slights, and I hold grudges for billions of years.” He lives in a dark Los Angeles apartment with blackout shades covering all of the windows to protect his collection of comic books, toy robots and “Star Wars” stormtrooper helmets. He and Dr. Whitney, an athletic pediatrician who grew up on a farm in...

MULTAN, Pakistan - A fire erupted in a wedding tent in eastern Pakistan, triggering a stampede and the collapse of a wall that killed 27 women and children, police said Sunday. The bride was among the dead. More than 30 other people in the wedding party were injured late Saturday night in Jhok Utra, a village about 290 miles southwest of the capital Islamabad, area police officer Khadim Hussain Khadim said. It was not known if the count of those injured included some people who later died. Heat from high-intensity lights apparently sparked the blaze in a large canvas tent...

A Romanian priest wants women to pay a "white-dress fine" if they're not virgins when they marry. Father Petrica Bratu, 37, says he hopes the fines will stop couples from living in sin. Couples who had just moved in together would pay about $20 but brides who were pregnant or had children would pay about $120. The average Romanian salary is about $200 per month.

With a rise in the popularity of Christian-style weddings in Japan, some Westerners are finding they can make a lucrative living by acting as priests. But it does not please everyone, particularly genuine priests, as Kathleen McCaul reports. Mark Kelly acts as a fake priest at the weekend Mark Kelly is originally from Lancashire in England. He has been living in Japan for six years and, at the weekend, he is a fake priest. "I was living in Sapporo, studying Japanese, and I needed the money. It's far better paid than teaching in a language school," he said. "Being a...

SALT LAKE CITY - The parents of a bride-to-be told their daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip, but then drove to Colorado and kept her there until she missed the nuptials, officials said. Lemuel and Julia Redd have been charged with second-degree felony kidnapping. Utah County Attorney Kay Bryson said Tuesday he met with the couple's daughter, Julianna, and her now-husband Perry Myers before charging the parents. "I've never had a case quite like this," Bryson said. "It is strange that parents would go to that extent to keep an adult daughter from marrying the man that...

WEST BROOKFIELD, Mass. -- A new marriage is off to a tipsy start after a groom is arrested after attacking a guest at his own wedding reception. Deric Grendon, 24, of West Brookfield was let go on $100 bail, but he was later re-arrested for violating a restraining order his new bride took out on him after the assault. The charges against him include assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace. Witnesses say Grendon became violent during the party at of the Knights of Columbus Hall after...

Red card on the field! The foul: a venue double-booking a major sporting event the same day as a wedding. Final score: Soccer 2, Stinde/Lambro Wedding 1. Bev Stinde and her husband, Allen, saved up for years to give their eldest girl a wedding day she would never forget. She got that day, and it was unforgettable -- but for all the wrong reason. Three weeks before Rachelle Stinde and Jim Lambro were to be married, Lord Hill Farms drop-kicked a bomb on them: There was going to be a soccer tournament in the fields below their outdoor wedding. They...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2006 -- At the exact site of the most painful event in the Pentagon’s history -- the Sept. 11, 2001, attack that claimed 184 lives here -- a couple brought together through the tragedy recently became the first to exchange wedding vows in the Pentagon Memorial Chapel. Army Lt. Col. Nora Faust and Heinz Linderman exchange wedding vows in the Pentagon Memorial Chapel Aug. 3 as retired Army Chaplain Bruce Burslie officiates. Courtesy photo   '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “It’s like the phoenix rising from the ashes,” said Army Lt. Col. Nora Faust after...

A MUSLIMS-only day at Britain’s biggest theme park has been axed after a huge bookings flop. Organisers Islamic Leisure had hoped to attract 28,000 people to the event at Alton Towers, Staffs, on September 17 — but less than 1,000 tickets were sold. The fun day — exclusively revealed by The Sun — caused a race row after plans to ban mixed-sex rides, smoking, alcohol and gambling. Non-Muslims were angered by the plans. An Alton Towers spokesman said last night: “At least the park will be open to the general public.”

Couple survives, now looking for engagement ring ROME — The marriage proposal that ended with a plane crash began with the bride-to-be thinking she was going on a date to the movies. But Adam Sutton, 19, had other plans. He had convinced his high school sweetheart, Erika Brussee, 18, to take a chartered flight around the Rome area Friday. And Sutton's plan included having family members hold up a sign asking Brussee to marry him. "He convinced me that it was a last-minute thing, that his dad knew someone who could fly us around Rome," Brussee said. "I had no...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has taken his former secretary as his new wife, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the country. His wife Ko Yong-hi, the mother of two of Kim's three sons, died of breast cancer in August 2004, the agency said. "I heard Kim has been living together with a woman named Kim Ok, who was his secretary, since Ko Yong-hi died two years ago," Yonhap quoted a South Korean government source as saying.