Abducted BBC journalist released
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Kidnapped BBC reporter Dilawar Khan Wazir is released a day after going missing in Pakistan.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two French journalists who were kidnapped by a radical Islamic group in Iraq four months ago were released Tuesday, Al-Jazeera television network reported.
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Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials on Wednesday, Palestinian sources close to negotiations for his release said.
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Journalist held hostage in Gaza for almost four months, has been released, BBC confirms.
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Iraqi police said a Jordanian hostage had  been released in Iraq, Arabic television Al Jazeera reported on  Tuesday.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston was released in Gaza City early Wednesday after nearly four months in captivity, following an agreement reached by the Islamist movement Hamas with his extremist abductors.
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Kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston has been released after nearly four months in captivity, Hamas said Wednesday. Looking pale and frail, the BBC correspondent told The Associated Press he was "OK."
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Masked Palestinian gunmen kidnapped a BBC reporter from his car in Gaza City on Monday, Palestinian security officials said. As he was being taken, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC, the officials said.
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A Hamas official said on Sunday BBC reporter Alan Johnston, abducted in Gaza three months ago, would be released within hours, but as the clock ticked by another senior member of the Islamist group counseled caution.
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Nigerian kidnappers have tonight released Margaret Hill, a three-year-old British girl seized in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
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[World News]: A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq since late October has been set free and flown back to Warsaw reports BBC. BBC also says making a surprise appearance at a press conference alongside the Polish
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Palestinian gunmen yesterday released a CNN journalist abducted in Gaza City apparently to pressure members of an Arab minority group not to serve in the Israeli army.
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Kidnappers have released Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi&#39;s cousin after taking him hostage for 12days, the Arabic-language al-Arabiya TV channel reported Sunday.
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An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was released after the Google Internet search engine confirmed his identity to his captors.
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An Australian journalist was taken hostage in Baghdad for 24 hours last weekend and was released unharmed, according to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer Monday.
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A British reporter is handed over to UK officials after being freed by his kidnappers in southern Iraq.
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An Australian journalist was seized by militants in Iraq for nearly 24 hours, but then released unharmed.