2. Taipei Hostage Crisis

Taiwan's most-wanted criminal holds a South African diplomat's family hostage at gunpoint; negotiators find themselves trying to do their work in the midst of a frantic media circus.

3. Sydney Community Centre Siege

Police negotiators are called into a local welfare office, where 27 people are being held hostage by an armed couple threatening to blow everyone up unless their 3-month-old baby is returned to them.

4. Embassy under Siege

Armed rebels have seized 89 people in the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, and Thai negotiators must stop them from killing hostages every half an hour in one of the country's biggest hostage crises.