1.   Some hostages were swapped for convicted prisoners.

2.   Later, police swapped the hostages for a jailed McLaren follower.

3.   Vajpayee, who leads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, is facing harsh criticism at home for swapping hostages for militants that his government regards as terrorists.

4.   A rebel warlord and the Tajik government began swapping hostages for guerrilla fighters Friday, a Russian news agency said.

5.   An armed man seeking ransom seized a worker at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow Friday night but then agreed to swap the hostage Swede for a Russian security official.

6.   Armed Serb civilians swapped hostages with ethnic Albanian guerrillas on Friday, after international monitors intervened to defuse the crisis.

7.   Armed Serb civilians swapped hostages with ethnic Albanian guerrillas on Friday, amid reports that Serb police shot and killed an ethnic Albanian in the village of Mlecane.

8.   Armed Serb civilians swapped hostages with ethnic Albanian guerrillas on Friday, defusing a standoff.

9.   Earlier Friday, armed Serb civilians swapped hostages with ethnic Albanian guerrillas, defusing a local standoff.

10.   Last week, it scaled down that demand, saying it would agree to swap hostages for six jailed captives.