1.   Spanish truckers are virtually holding hundreds of British lorry drivers hostage, and many of those trapped are too scared to leave.

2.   Police sharpshooters surrounded a hijacked bus Thursday in a standoff with an Albanian immigrant holding six passengers and the driver hostage to protest alleged abuse by police.

3.   Bosnian Serbs reneged on a promise to release him in exchange for another observer and instead took the new observer and his driver hostage.

4.   Sentenced to life in prison, she made a daring daylight escape when four of her visitors took a guard and a prison driver hostage.

5.   Special forces sharpshooters surrounded a hijacked bus Thursday in a standoff with an Albanian immigrant holding six passengers and the driver hostage to protest alleged abuse by police.

6.   There the suspects dumped the Rover and stole a BMW, taking the driver hostage, police said.

7.   They also commandeered a military vehicle, took its driver hostage and drove away, the Interfax news agency reported.

8.   Two high school students hijacked a school bus Tuesday, took six students and the driver hostage and led police on a highway chase before surrendering peacefully.

9.   Tribal kidnappers freed a German engineer early Monday, eight days after taking him, two other Germans and a Pakistani driver hostage.

10.   Armed men took five Russian officers and their driver hostage in the Chechen capital Grozny on Wednesday, ITAR-TASS news agency said citing local officials.