Austrian hostage girl tried to call for help: report
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The Austrian girl held captive in an   underground cell for eight years told on Tuesday how she tried   to signal for help with her eyes when she met other people   during occasional outings with her captor.
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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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Authorities trying to aid two girls seen in a sexually explicit videotape say they have identified one and were showing images of the other Thursday in the hopes that someone would recognize her.
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Hours after a kidnapped humanitarian aid worker tearfully pleaded for her life in a video released Friday by her captors, the head of CARE International urged the kidnappers to release Margaret Hassan unharmed.
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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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A 19-year-old woman appears to have escaped from a juvenile detention centre in northwest Germany by hiding in the suitcase of a fellow inmate who was released, police said on Monday.
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The two hostages are said to be a woman and her son A militant Islamist group in Iraq which says it has two German hostages has threaten to kill them if Berlin does not pull its troops from Afghanistan.Comment
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The Austrian teenager kidnapped and held captive for eight years says she is struggling to adjust to her new life.
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Natascha Kampusch said all she could   think of during her eight year kidnap ordeal was how to escape   and despaired when she learned that people believed she was   dead, the young Austrian woman told News magazine.
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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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Two foreigners from the Red Cross who helped free a group of South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday.
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British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan&#39;s captors have released a tape of her pleading for Tony Blair to save her life, repeating a tactic used with political effect in the case of slain hostage Kenneth Bigley.
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said, in a move that may raise hopes for the release of a British hostage. soldiers, could be freed as part of a review of her detention.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities were trying on  Tuesday to negotiate the surrender of an armed group holding  hostages in a police station, hours after arresting their  leader who had demanded the president's resignation.
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An Austrian girl held captive for eight   years told on Wednesday how the thought of escaping kept her   alive, but that she feared fleeing might provoke her kidnapper   into killing her and others in a murder spree.
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The Austrian teenager who fled an eight-year kidnap ordeal now wants an education, her lawyer says.
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A German woman who was kidnapped in Iraq earlier this year has been released, but her son is still being held hostage, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday.