STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN may allow homosexuals to wed in the Lutheran Church or civil ceremonies as of May if parliament adopts legislation presented to parliament Wednesday, the prime minister's party said.

TEHRAN - THE Iranian judiciary is to free two sisters sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, after they were cleared of the charges in a retrial, a press report said on Wednesday.

ROME - ITALY'S northwestern Piedmont region is poised to disregard government objections and help a woman, in a coma for 17 years, to die following a court decision, a newspaper report said on Wednesday.