●<B> CALIFORNIA. Michael Jackson swore boys to secrecy. </B> A teenage boy testified on Tuesday that Michael Jackson told him and his brother, who has accused the pop star of sex abuse, to keep their activities at Jackson?s ranch secret ?even if they put a gun to your head.? But during cross-examination, Jackson?s lead defense attorney accused the 14-year-old boy of lying, breaking into the singer?s suitcase full of adult magazines and wine cellar and ?snooping? around his bedroom.

●<B> GREAT BRITAIN Charles-Camilla marriage given legal ok.</B> Britain?s Registrar General on Tuesday dismissed 11 objections to the marriage of Prince Charles and his longtime lover Camilla Parker Bowles. The principal grounds for objecting to the April 8 wedding in Windsor town hall were that the law did not allow the heir to the throne to marry in a civil ceremony.

●<B> USA. Martha Stewart goes back to work after prison. </B> Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart returned to work on Monday and told her cheering staff she would use lessons from her five months in prison to improve her company?s products and reach a broader audience. Slimmed down and clearly relishing her release, the smiling founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said the people she had met and her time to reflect behind bars had taught her the values of tradition, family, friendship and the comforts of home.

●<B> JAPAN. Release no closer for grand master Fischer despite new passport.</B> Lawyers for chess grand master Bobby Fischer are holding a newly issued Icelandic passport for him, but officials said on Tuesday his release from an immigration detention center northeast of Tokyo is no closer. The former world chess champion is fighting deportation from Japan to the United States, where he is wanted for violating sanctions against Yugoslavia by playing a chess match there in 1992. He has been in custody in Japan since being arrested last July for traveling on an invalid US passport.