Kidnap girl 'wants an education'
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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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Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian woman   kidnapped at the age of 10 and held captive for eight years,   says she is recovering from her ordeal and is ready to face the   outside world.
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THE Australian Government might help plead for the release of kidnapped CARE Australia worker Margaret Hassan, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.
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BBC News Online looks at how the crisis surrounding the siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan, where more than 300 people are being held hostage, is developing.
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âPlease help me. Please help me,â said a terrified Hassan, breaking down in tears and burying her face in a tissue. She said she might be killed like British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded by his captors earlier this month.
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International aid organisation CARE is trying to secure the release of its Iraq director who was kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday morning.
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The kidnappers of a 3-year-old British girl are threatening to kill her and then come after her parents if their demands aren't met, the girl's sobbing mother said Friday.
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The life of a British hostage is in the balance amid reports that one of two Iraqi women that his Islamic kidnappers have demanded to be released could be freed by the US military.
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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 urged kidnappers Saturday to release a British hostage they have been holding for nine days under threat of death.
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Tests are being carried out on a woman who says she is an Austrian schoolgirl who disappeared eight years ago.
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Gunmen holding a three-year-old British girl hostage in the Niger Delta make a ransom demand, her mother says.
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Nigerian authorities intensify efforts to free a three-year-old British girl kidnapped in the Niger Delta.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - 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's mother told Reuters on Friday.
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Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch, who was held prisoner for eight years, is to give a television interview.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Speaking softly, tears welling in   her eyes, the 16-year-old Congolese girl tells how she was   abducted from her home by militiamen, taken to the forest and   gang raped for a week.
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A 19-year-old with learning difficulties was stripped and tortured after being kidnapped in Aberdeen, a court hears.
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Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped British director of CARE International, is seen in this image made from an undated video aired on Al-Jazeera television Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.