101.   Some of the hostages have been freed after allegedly paying ransoms.

102.   Suspects in terrorism-related crimes in France must be freed after four days unless they are placed under formal investigation -- a step short of being charged.

103.   Tejinder Pal Singh was detained on arrival Thursday from Vancouver but freed after questioning.

104.   The four were freed shortly after.

105.   The eldest daughter of Burmese opium warlord Khun Sa has been freed after the prosecution dropped charges of laundering drug money.

106.   The first group was to be freed after the signing of the Israel-PLO agreement on Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank.

107.   The Indonesian government has said it will free him after the balloting.

108.   The kidnapping came just a week after two Russian television reporters were freed after being held for nearly a month in Chechnya.

109.   The journalists, American Josh Hammer and Briton Gary Knight, both of Newsweek magazine, were freed after more than four hours.

110.   The nurse, who is charged with murder, was freed after a court appearance on Tuesday.