2005-07-01: AP - Spain became the third country to legalize gay marriage Thursday in a parliament vote that left gay activists blowing kisses to lawmakers and the powerful Catholic Church issuing veiled calls for defiance.

2005-07-01: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Faced with jail for one of its reporters, Time magazine agreed on Thursday to hand over his notebooks to a grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA operative's name, in a move that raises questions about press freedom in America.

2005-07-01: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to block the Bush administration from approving a Chinese company's attempt to acquire U.S. oil and gas producer Unocal Corp. UCL.N

2005-07-01: AP - The government announced Thursday an 11-nation crackdown on Internet piracy organizations responsible for stealing copies of the latest 'Star Wars' film and other movies, games and software programs worth at least $50 million.

2005-07-01: MBNA executives reconstructed the behind-the-scenes maneuvers that led to the $35 billion deal with Bank of America.

2005-07-01: USATODAY.com - Delphi, the biggest U.S. auto supplier and formerly part of General Motors, Thursday restated earnings back to 2000 and closed an internal investigation. The restated earnings show Delphi lost $195 million more from 2000 to 2003 than it originally reported.

2005-07-01: USATODAY.com - Despite posting gains the past three months, stocks enter the second half of the year in the red and face a murky outlook amid fears the Federal Reserve might not stop raising interest rates as early as Wall Street thought.

2005-07-01: Reuters - Britain set the stage on Friday for a clash on the future of the European Union by calling a special summit to debate the direction of a bloc that is facing financial deadlock and suffering an identity crisis.

2005-07-01: AP - MetLife Inc. on Friday said it completed its $11.8 billion acquisition of Citigroup's Travelers Life and Annuity Co. and nearly all of Citigroup's international insurance businesses, which will make MetLife the nation's biggest life insurance company in sales.

2005-07-02: Apartments with windowless rooms to be used as home offices is the latest trend in New York City housing. It's cheaper than a two-bedroom, but with more space than a one-bedroom.

2005-07-01: WASHINGTON, D.C. + This week Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, Howard University and a group of stakeholders from public accounting, government, and minority-owned accounting firms are launching the Howard University ...