Wills and Kate are married, and for those of you in the states who got up early to watch the ceremony (or pretended like you weren't watching it but happened to have the TV on while getting ready for work, raising my hand) you know it was a classy and lovely affair. In other words, years of royal scandal seemed to melt away and Queen Elizabeth II looked happier than she'd been in a long time. The hats worn by a couple of princesses aside, it was a fashionable affair as Kate Middleton went for a classic, Grace Kelly look, and Prince William went for regal military dress. The worldwide TV audience is estimated at some two billion. Some great places to check out for full coverage: the BBC, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, and The Sun.

Will this marriage last? See how the rest of the House of Windsor has fared in that department. The fact that William and Kate began their relationship eight years ago is a good sign of the caution with which the prince has obviously approached this union. Best wishes to the happy couple.

Find the best photos from the ceremony here.

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Have you watched the video as many times as I have? Is that horrible techo-pop "American Boy" song stuck in your head, too? Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was captured on cell-phone camera shaking his groove thang at his college reunion, and one of his friends pretending to be John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction" was all too happy to be filmed (no information on the vodka amount involved), and the entire video is disturbing but has to be watched. And has been, to the tune of more than a million YouTube views. Observations by Anna Malpas at the St. Petersberg Times:

"'It has to be a fake, tell me it's a fake,' the spokeswoman for the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi, Kristina Potupchik, wrote on Twitter, her faith in the Kremlin apparently shot to the core, after herding thousands of the faithful in white aprons on the weekend.

My sympathies went out to Medvedev for having to attend what looked like the worst party ever, although I was less sympathetic when I read on Life News that he had organized it. Certainly it is no ordinary reunion. Instead of 1980s pop on the turntables, it has the actual singers performing on stage. The group Kombinatsia belts out its hit 'American Boy,' a classic about a Russian girl who wants to be whisked away to the States and ride in a Mercedes.

...He's no dancer and should ditch the shiny jacket, but he looks better than many of his matronly or portly contemporaries. What intrigued me was his apparent lack of interaction with the other dancers, almost as if he paid for the party but still can't be the popular kid."

CNN rounds up some more embarrassing political moments. And yes, it includes Vladimir Putin's rendition of Fats Domino.

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The bloodshed continues in Syria as a defiant President Bashar Assad, after paltry promises of minor reforms, took the tyrant's route of firing on his own people demanding a shot at democracy. More than 120 people have been killed since Friday, many taken down Gadhafi-style by rooftop snipers, and Syrian forces shrugging off Assad's lifting of 50 years of emergency law set about staging raids in opposition hotspots.

More from the Associated Press:

"The police raids, which began late Saturday, concentrated around the capital Damascus and the central city of Homs, a hotbed of demonstrations against Assad's authoritarian rule, said Ammar Qurabi, head of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria.

'These people are not being arrested in a legal way. They are being kidnapped,' Qurabi said, claiming the plainclothes security agents did not have formal arrest warrants.

Qurabi did not have full figures for those detained, but said at least 20 people were arrested in Homs. A resident in the Damascus suburb of Douma said at least five people were taken into custody and authorities cut Internet and telephone lines.

Later, security forces moved into the coastal town of Jableh, claiming they were searching for weapons, said Qurabi. He cited witnesses saying that police and army units opened fire from rooftops even though there were no apparent threats and no protests in progress. At least one person was killed and three wounded, he said.

'I am terrified ... People in the street are getting shot,' a resident of Jableh told The Associated Press by phone.

The accounts could not be independently confirmed because Syria has expelled journalists and restricted access to trouble spots. Witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

...But possible cracks could be emerging from within.

Two members stepped down from the provincial council in the southern region of Daraa, which has the highest death toll in the country. The resignations came a day after two lawmakers and a religious leader from Daraa also turned their backs on Assad in disgust over the killings."

Complete coverage at Al-Jazeera including video.

Human Rights Watch called Sunday for a United Nations inquiry into the attacks and sanctions on the Syrian leadership:

"The United Nations should set up an international inquiry into the fatal shootings by Syria's security forces of peaceful protesters, Human Rights Watch said today after the killing of protesters in 14 separate towns on April 22, 2011. The inquiry should also examine other human rights violations committed since anti-government protests began in mid-March.

The US and European Union should also impose sanctions on Syrian officials who bear responsibility for the use of lethal force against peaceful protesters and the arbitrary detention and torture of hundreds of protesters, as well as request an urgent briefing of the UN Security Council on the spiraling situation in the country, including shootings on April 22.

'After Friday's carnage, it is no longer enough to condemn the violence,' said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. 'Faced with the Syrian authorities' "shoot to kill" strategy, the international community needs to impose sanctions on those ordering the shooting of protesters.'"

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The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is just days away, and the guest list, notes the Guardian, includes a few world leaders who raise eyebrows:

"Elton John will sit alongside some rulers who would throw him in jail for being gay. King Mswati III of Swaziland, a ruler noted for his life of luxury and practice of polygamy in a poor, backward country will be in the pews. Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain, where at least 30 people have been killed in recent demonstrations, put out a statement on Sunday saying that with 'deep regret' he had to decline the invitation, complaining that media reports about his attendance 'clearly sought to involve my potential attendance as a political proxy for wider matters involving Bahrain'. The invitation had been criticised by human rights groups."

In the face of that criticism, The Independent reported, St James's Palace defended the wedding list and insisted the Foreign Office had approved it. "Invitations are extended from the Queen following the long-held tradition of inviting other crowned heads of state; we have taken advice from the Foreign Office about their continued inclusion," a spokesman said.

Libya's UK ambassador had his invitation rescinded after fighting began, the Independent also said, but Zimbabwe's ambassador to Britain, Gabriel Machinga, remains invited. "President Mugabe and his corrupt coterie have rightly been placed under EU sanctions for their human rights abuses and Mr Machinga has always made it clear that he represents Mugabe and not the people of Zimbabwe, nor even their coalition government," The Vigil, Zimbabweans who demonstrate outside the Zimbabwean Embassy in the UK every Saturday, wrote to the government in asking that his invitation be withdrawn.

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