Anguish for UK hostage's family
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq  renew appeals for authorities to negotiate with the  kidnappers.
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The family of Dublin-born Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan believes she has been killed by hostage-takers.
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Animal rights extremists are putting a horrified family through a cruel and macabre ordeal, it emerged yesterday.
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The killing of British hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq met with widespread condemnation in the UK, as his home city Liverpool was set to observe a day of mourning today.
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The family of a British man being held hostage in Iraq has pleaded with the prime minister to meet the captors demands and save the hostage s life.
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The British and Iraqi governments said they would not bow to the demands of militants threatening to kill a British hostage, despite tearful pleas from the captive and his family.
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The mother of the British hostage held in Iraq was taken to hospital last night after making an emotional appeal to his captors.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.    On Thursday, U.S...
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The family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley is anxiously awaiting news after the apparent deadline for his execution in Iraq passed without word of his fate.
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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 ransom as security agents intensified efforts to secure her release.
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Relatives of a man being held hostage in Iraq waited for word about him Saturday as militants threatened to decapitate him, another American and a Briton unless demands were met within 48 hours.
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The families of five Britons kidnapped in Iraq in May appealed Thursday to their captors for their release, as Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was &quot;deeply concerned&quot; for them.
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The family of a British hostage threatened with execution in Iraq made a desperate appeal to Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday to meet kidnappers' demands and save his life.
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Liverpool - The family of a British engineer anxiously awaited news on Friday of his fate at the hands of Islamic extremists in Iraq who abducted him eight days ago along with two Americans who have since been executed.
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The Iraqi husband of Margaret Hassan was said to be deeply distressed after a video emerged showing the apparent murder of the Irish-born aid worker by her kidnappers, his family said.
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BAGHDAD: Eight Egyptian and Iraqi employees of an Egyptian telecommunications company were the latest kidnapping victims in Iraq yesterday as the family of British hostage Kenneth Bigley anxiously awaited news of his fate.
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The images coming out of the latest hostage crisis in Iraq - capped by dramatic video of British captive Kenneth Bigley begging for his life - have transfixed Britons, left governments looking helpless, and ...