Surprisingly, despite Sydney's notorious web of regulations, rules and small-government interference in the running of every aspect of its citizens' day-to-day lives, that is the only rule the Mehajer wedding has so far been found to have broken.
Since Snowden leaked the NSA documents to the Guardian and the Washington Post in May, controversy has raged around the world over revelations that surveillance agencies are collecting information in bulk about ordinary citizens' day-to-day activities, without first getting a warrant.
The Syrian government began allowing its citizens Wednesday to openly use Facebook and YouTube, three years after blocking access to Facebook and other sites as part of a crackdown on political activism.
"When the federal government has 1,100 laws, which means in our society the federal government is intertwined with citizens' day-to-day lives," Kennedy said, then Congress is doing more than simply ensuring a uniform definition of marriage.
The German Foreign Ministry advised its citizens Friday to avoid leaving their hotels in the city, which is located about 55 miles southwest of Sharm el Sheik.
Russian state TV told citizens Tuesday to stockpile food and water as the threat of nuclear war with the U.S. intensified over Syria.
"I was here for 40 years and I'm glad I'm a citizen," he told a roomful of immigrant advocates, local media representatives and other newly naturalized citizens Friday at the Los Angeles Central Library.
"For the average Indian citizen, day-to-day existence is hard enough," he said.
After months of anticipation, along with assistance from the office of Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, De Leon was sworn in as a United States citizen Thursday at a federal courthouse in Detroit.
