1.   Rapper Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth both want to pursue solo careers, the Dutch press reported Wednesday.

2.   Fearing for their lives, Bulgarian soccer referees hit the picket lines to protest being slugged on the sidelines, the press reported Wednesday.

3.   The central government has issued a new set of regulations to reinforce longstanding but rarely enforced rules against such practices, the official press reported Tuesday.

4.   Iranian Health Minister Ali Reza Marandi is on a visit to Iraq to discuss cooperation between the two neighbours, the Iraqi press reported Wednesday.

5.   A Chinese official has warned Hong Kong could face a water shortage in seven years, local press reported Monday.

6.   A third member of the Nigerian opposition has been released, a day after two human rights activists were freed, the press reported Tuesday.

7.   A top Burmese general has called for military personnel to be on guard against those trying to split the armed forces, the state-run press reported Sunday.

8.   A young Egyptian woman arrested for having four husbands pleaded that she could not resist virile men, the Egyptian press reported Saturday.

9.   Denard bought a ship in Norway for the latest Comoros coup pretending he was going deep-sea diving, Norwegian press reported on Saturday.

10.   Three police officers have been arrested following the killing on Wednesday of two Kenyatta university students, the Kenyan press reported on Thursday, quoting police spokesman Peter Kimanthi.