1.   Bowing to public outrage, a Pakistani court has freed a rape victim who was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of having extramarital relations.

2.   A few others are being held for possible expulsion, but French courts freed the rest last summer, and many melted back into the immigrant underground.

3.   In his ruling, Judge Denny Chin of U.S. District Court in Manhattan noted that federal courts rarely freed prisoners convicted in state criminal cases.

4.   In its verdict, the court freed Sant, saying the time in Illinois had made him free and there was nothing Missouri could do about it.

5.   The court already has freed six women through methods such as nullifying their marriages.

6.   Only days before, a Guatemala court freed three of the four people charged with the kidnapping of an eight-year-old U.S. girl last April.

7.   A court freed eight men Saturday who had been detained for taking part in seminar organized by a leading government opponent.

8.   A court on Friday freed on bail four members of a secretive German community in southern Chile who are indicted for helping their fugitive leader dodge the police search.

9.   A Belgian court has freed four people linked to leading suspects in a child-sex case that has cost the lives of at least four young girls.

10.   A court freed a Sri Lankan journalist who was arrested by police three weeks ago for suspected links with the Tamil rebels, court officials said Tuesday.