1.   Among the South American Yanomamo, for instance, men frequently abduct and rape women from neighboring villages and severely beat their wives for suspected adultery.

2.   Five days later four armed men abducted Pierre Laporte, the Quebec labor minister.

3.   The night before, two armed men had abducted a top Sanyo executive as he left a company softball game in Tijuana.

4.   The parliament worker who was kidnapped, Peter Tsiskarishvili, was also reportedly abducted by men armed with machine guns.

5.   Three men abducted Nguyen at gunpoint in front of his Sunset District home after they threatened and robbed his mother.

6.   Armed men abducted eight public school teachers in the southern Philippines early Friday, the military and town officials said.

7.   Armed men abducted seven public school teachers in the southern Philippines early Friday, a local official said.

8.   Armed men have abducted an owner of fishing trawlers in the southern Philippines, where government troops were searching for other recent kidnap victims, police said Sunday.

9.   At first she said a black man had abducted them during a carjacking, but nine days later she confessed to drowning them.

10.   Five armed men abducted a businesswoman and killed her security guard in the latest kidnapping in the southern Philippines, the military said Saturday.