Hunt for kidnap victims continues
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Ethiopian and UK officials are working to secure the safe return of five British people kidnapped four days ago.
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The government has appealed to kidnappers holding hostage Kenneth Bigley in Iraq to make contact -- but still ruled out negotiations or ransom payment.
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Police look into reported sightings as the 50th day of the four-year-old's abduction is marked around the world.
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Armed men kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria's southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta.
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Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, Filipino Angelito Nayan and Kosovan Shqipe Habibi were kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last week.
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Police and villagers hunted on Friday for 13 mine-clearing workers kidnapped in a restive part of Afghanistan less than a week after Taliban militants vowed to step up an abduction campaign.
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Police warned parents to closely watch their children Saturday as authorities searched for the kidnapper of a 13-year-old boy.
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Rescuers continue to search for survivors of bomb attacks at Egyptian resorts in which at least 29 people died.
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Afghan kidnappers holding hostage three United Nation workers, including Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland, say the progress of negotiations for their release will decide whether they extend a deadline to execute the trio.
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Detectives investigating an alleged terrorist kidnap plot finish searching 18 addresses.
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Iraq kidnap victim Margaret Hassan&#39;s three sisters, from left to right: Catherine Fitzsimons, Deidre Fitzsimons and Geraldine Fitzsimons make a statement to the media in Dublin Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004.
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Kidnappers in Iraq have again taken several foreigners hostage, this time workers trying to rebuild the country&#39;s telecommunications infrastructure.
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The Somali security forces are hunting for the gang which kidnapped two women who work for an aid agency.
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Authorities remained tight-lipped Tuesday over efforts to secure the release of five embassy staff feared kidnapped in Ethiopia, as newspapers speculated over their fate.
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Philippine rescuers resumed digging at dawn on Friday, hoping to find more survivors after four were pulled from a building that collapsed 11 days ago during a fierce storm.
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REAL, Philippines  - Philippine rescuers resumed  digging at dawn on Friday, hoping to find more survivors after  four were pulled from a building that collapsed 11 days ago  during a fierce storm.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan forces searched on Sunday for a U.S. aid worker kidnapped by gunmen from the southern city of Kandahar.