The Dow finished 159.71 points lower or 1.07% at 14,776.53. The S&P 500 closed 20.67 points lower or 1.23% at 1,655.45 while the Nasdaq ended 75.54 points lower or 2% at 3,694.83.

It's quite possible to be gay without being militantly "pro-choice", or to want to reduce the central importance of fathers in the rearing of their biological children. It's actually normal to be gay and to want to live a quiet life of partnered - married - love, without making a big political fuss about changing everything else too. Normalisation is Liberation 2.0, and - by necessity - it's a Tory cabinet minister who is quietly making its case."At one point they left the girl to be raised by the family here in the village.

The power couple were said to have obtained photographic and video evidence which showed Oosterbroek committing a "lewd sexual act" with Beyoncé's and Blue Ivy's passport, New York Daily News Confidenti@l reported.

If you want to ski at the fringes of the season, choose somewhere high, or where there is a glacier offering reliable conditions.

But having spent the last 24 hours in his company, accompanying him to Ukraine on arguably the most important trip he has made since becoming Foreign Secretary, there is no doubt that he has grown into the job, and is thoroughly enjoying himself. Being a British Foreign Secretary at the height of a major international crisis is an intoxicating affair - one minute you are taking a call from Condi - sorry, that should be Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State - and the next you are setting up a conference call of G8 foreign ministers - on this occasion, surprise, surprise, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, was not included - to discuss the next course of action.