1.   Muslim rebels who thrive on kidnapping seized an American on a remote Philippine island Tuesday and threatened to kill him if the United States does not meet unspecified demands.

2.   While there is a long history of separatist unrest among Muslims in the southern Philippine islands, Abu Sayyaf is a fringe group with limited political support.

3.   A strong earthquake rocked remote northern Philippine islands before dawn Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

4.   A U.S. congressional delegate flew Monday to visit American soldiers who are training Filipinos hunting an al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremist group on a southern Philippine island.

5.   A typhoon from the Pacific Ocean and a tropical depression over the South China Sea brought heavy rains over much of the main Philippine island Friday, weathermen said.

6.   Also Sunday, police rescued three quarry workers abducted last month by outlaws on a southern Philippine island, officials said.

7.   American soldiers capture Calapan on Mindoro, leaving only a few pockets of Japanese stragglers to overcome on the Philippine island.

8.   Battles between security forces and Muslim rebels holding five hostages on a southern Philippine island have left three more soldiers dead, the military said Saturday.

9.   Breakaway communist rebels killed three soldiers, bringing to eight the number of people killed in insurgent-related fighting in a central Philippine island, police said Tuesday.

10.   Communist rebels warned Thursday they will seize and detain any foreigner they find conducting research work in this central Philippine island.