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Just for the fun of it, "married" is ambiguous as it may mean he married years ago (supposing we did not know whether he was married or not), but "got married" signifies a change. http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/99745-got-marr...

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Additional fun (and ambiguity): The verb "to marry" also means to perform the marriage ceremony. "Mark Zuckerberg married" could, in theory, mean Zuckerberg married two other people. "Got married" doesn't suffer from ambiguity and for that reason i think preferred.

No. He married. It’s unambiguously intransitive.

Correct. "To marry" is actually one of these rare verbs that can be both transitive and intransitive.

And like somebody pointed out earlier, it can either mean that the subject is the one getting married or that they are performing the ceremony.

Here, "married" is a past participle, and the headline is in the passive voice. Headlines from Google News analogous to this post's title:

-Sleep apnea linked to cancer in latest studies -Falcon 9 countdown aborted in last second before launch -Apple, Samsung CEOs set for court talks

Yes, I know. I was only correcting the ridiculous tangent, not referring to the actual headline.

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