1.   A Texas prison inmate who took a correctional officer hostage surrendered to prison officials after a seven-hour standoff Friday.

2.   Armed with knives, they took the officers hostage and tried to escape, the statement said.

3.   In the northern state of Jammu-Kashmir, three Islamic guerrillas stormed into a house and took six paramilitary and intelligence officers hostage.

4.   Prison inmates took corrections officers hostage early Saturday, beating and stabbing them with parts of torn-up furniture from their cells, police said.

5.   The kidnapper took the policeman and another Interior Ministry officer hostage near the village of Veseloye at midday on Monday.

6.   They took a female officer hostage and held her for three hours, leaving her tied up when they fled the scene empty-handed.

7.   They were angry that the former child soldiers had taken a Sinhalese officer hostage.

8.   They were angry because the children had earlier taken a Sinhalese officer hostage at the center.

9.   Vietnamese asylum-seekers took a prison officer hostage Wednesday when food was being delivered at their Hong Kong camp, the government said.

10.   A military source said the mutineers took a senior army officer hostage, but gave no further details.