US President Barack Obama reaffirmed his support for gay rights in an impassioned speech to accept his official Democrat Party nomination to run for the White House again.

The country's first ever president to back gay marriage was greeted with cheers and waving of banners reading 'LGBT for Obama' after he stood up for the nation's minority groups at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina yesterday (5 September).

'We don't think government can solve all our problems,' Obama said.

It’s been almost a decade since Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda sipped their last cocktail after the cult television series Sex and the City ended in 2004.

But two feature films later, with a prequal television series, The Carrie Diaries, to premier in 2013, our passion for those four women still runs deep.

However, if you are having withdrawal symptoms Givaudan have just the thing for you.

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Rachel Maddow will be the co-anchor for MSNBC's primetime Democratic and Republican convention coverage.

The partisan divide over gay marriage continues to grow in the US with a new poll showing that 65% of Democrats now favor marriage equality while just 24% of Republicans do.

The numbers are from a survey of 2,973 adults taken between June 28 and July 9 conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

A Democrats party branch in the US state of Kentucky has voted to call on the Democratic National Committee to formally endorse same-sex marriage and add it to the platform at the party’s 2012 national convention.

The Louisville/Jefferson County Democratic Party executive committee voted 16 to 3 to send the message to the national convention, to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, during the North American summer.