1.   Friends and family warned Berry not to hang around King when he was released from prison last July, the relative said.

2.   Whiten, who was released by the Yankees last month, said the sex was consensual.

3.   Abduction for ransom becomes exempt from prosecution if the captive is released, ITAR-Tass said, citing a senior investigator, Mikhail Suntsov.

4.   Johnson will be booked with attempted murder as a juvenile when he is released, police Lt. Marlon Defillo said.

5.   Rental prices for real estate in Japan have dropped this last year but remain astonishingly high, a government survey released Wednesday said.

6.   While Europeans love their television sets and books, they are not yet keen on using computers or surfing the Internet, a European Union survey released Tuesday said.

7.   Federal Yugoslavia and Croatia consigned five years of mutual hostility to history Wednesday when they agreed to establish diplomatic relations within weeks, a statement released here said.

8.   In Pale, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ordered a counter-offensive to retake two western Bosnian towns occupied Friday by Bosnian Croat forces, a statement released here said.

9.   Japanese workers have become more selfish, attaching greater importance to improving their own skills than traditional company loyalty or job security, a survey released Tuesday said.

10.   Leaders of Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday announced a successful conclusion to talks on the delimitation of their maritime boundary, a joint communique released here said.