British girl, 3, released in Nigeria
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A British toddler was released by gunmen in southern Nigeria on Sunday and reunited with her parents, who said she was fine but hungry and covered in mosquito bites.
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Three European hostages abducted three weeks ago from a bar in Nigeria's oil-rich south are freed.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Contacts began on Friday to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.
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The three-year-old daughter of an expatriate worker is kidnapped by gunmen in the Niger Delta, police say.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - A 3-year-old Nigerian boy was kidnapped in the oil-producing Niger Delta in southern Nigeria on Thursday, police said, four days after a British girl of the same age was released by her kidnappers.
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The Nigerian kidnappers  of a three-year-old British girl have demanded money and  negotiations to secure her release are about to start, the  girl&#39;s mother told Reuters on Friday.
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A group of British embassy workers kidnapped in Ethiopia 12 days ago are released, it is confirmed.
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An 11-year-old Iraqi girl who lost a leg and 17 members of her family during last year's war has urged kidnappers to release a British hostage they have been holding for nine days under threat of death.
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A British man held hostage in Nigeria's Delta region is released, apparently because of his poor health.
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Armed men kidnapped a three-year-old British girl in Nigeria on Thursday, police and witnesses said, heightening a foreign hostage crisis in the country&#39;s main oil-producing zone.
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PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal  - The parents of a four-year-old British girl snatched from a Portuguese holiday resort three weeks ago said on Friday they were convinced she was still alive and vowed never to abandon the search for her.
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The three-year-old daughter of a British worker is seized by gunmen in the Niger Delta, Nigerian police say.
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Gunmen in southern Nigeria have released a British man taken hostage in the oil city of Port Harcourt more than two weeks ago.
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Three Europeans abducted three weeks ago from a bar in Nigeria's oil-rich south are freed in a military operation.
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David Beckham's pop-star wife Victoria is pregnant with her third child, the pair announced.
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The distraught mother of a three-year-old British girl taken hostage in southern Nigeria said Saturday her captors had asked for a ransom, as police stepped up efforts to secure her release.
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British pop singer Victoria Beckham announced on Sunday she was pregnant with her third child.