Luxembourg Prime Minister Marries Gay Partner.

Luxembourg's prime minister has become the first serving EU leader - and second leader in the world to marry a same-sex partner.Xavier Bettel married Gauthier Destenay on Friday in a private ceremony at the capital's town hall.

The couple are among the first to benefit after the country changed its laws to allow gay marriages last year.The union comes after Iceland's then-PM Johanna Sigurdardottir married her same-sex partner in 2010.Mr Bettel formed a government in December 2013 to become Luxembourg's first openly gay prime minister. 

He announced that he and his civil partner Mr Destenay, an architect, would be getting married just months after lawmakers approved the law change in June 2014.