11.   Yamamoto held Kurokawa for five hours before police overpowered him and freed the woman unharmed.

12.   Zoo officials scared the tigers off by firing shots into the air while police overpowered Ngqase, took his knife, and removed him from the cage.

13.   German police overpowered a gunman who had taken an employee hostage in a Munich bank on Thursday.

14.   A naked woman lunged toward Pope John Paul II near the Brandenburg Gate Sunday evening but was rapidly overpowered by police.

15.   The unidentified assailant was immediately overpowered by police, the reports added.

16.   Police overpowered a gunman who had taken an employee hostage in a Munich bank on Thursday.

17.   Police overpowered him near the Bachkirian capital of Ufa while the bus was being filled up with petrol, an interior ministry spokesman said.

18.   Police said crack police overpowered the man and freed the hostages.