• US church fined millions for picketing military funeral in anti-gay protest

A US jury ordered an evangelical church Wednesday to pay nearly 11 million dollars in damages for picketing the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq and claiming the war was punishment for tolerating gays.The nine-member federal jury ruled that members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church caused mental suffering to Albert Snyder, who says he became depressed after they paraded outside the funeral of his 20-year-old son Matthew in 2006.