For family, a horrific wait in vain
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Through the beheadings and harrowing video footage of Ken Bigley pleading for his life, his relatives never gave up. But his fate was probably sealed from the start.
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Relatives of the hostages seized in a school in North Ossetia faced a sleepless night on Wednesday, as they waited for more information about their loved ones.
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The family of Iraq hostage Margaret Hassan faced an anxious wait today after her kidnappers threatened to hand her over to murderous Abu Musab al-Zarqawi if their demands were not met within 48 hours.
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Holidaymakers caught up in the south east Asian disaster speak of their terror, while relatives at home wait for news.
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The family of a British engineer facing execution in Iraq at the hands of Islamic extremists awaited news of his fate as Iraqis distributed pamphlets in Baghdad containing a heart-rending plea from them for information.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- People in two communities are struggling to cope with the killing of an expectant mother and the snatching of her fetus.
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When my kidneys failed, I thought I'd have to wait for an anonymous donor.
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Police and the family of a woman who has not been seen since Wednesday fear for her safety.
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Anxious relatives trying to locate survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster overwhelm a Red Cross website set up to help track loved ones. Organizers are setting up a larger server.
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The Birmingham family of desperatelyill baby Charlotte Wyatt face an agonising wait for a judge to decide if medics should save her.
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Immigrants from across Asia anxiously watched televisions and their computer screens on Sunday, awaiting word from their homeland and preparing donations for friends, family and strangers devastated by tidal waves.
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Anguished relatives begged for the lives of an American and a Briton kidnapped in Iraq as the deadline passed Tuesday for another hostage to be beheaded by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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With Christmas a little more than a week away, many stores are finding themselves in the same predicament as in recent years: waiting for those last-minute shoppers who seem to be procrastinating even more than a year ago.
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In a neat, red-brick house behind closely-drawn curtains in the Liverpool suburb of Walton, a mother, two brothers and a son could only wait, in despair and anger, for news to end their torment.
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Families across the world anxiously  sought news of loved ones on Monday after a tsunami crashed  into the beaches and bars of some of Asia's most popular  resorts, killing thousands of people and leaving hundreds of  thousands stranded.
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BEAUMONT -- The family of a Beaumont woman is waiting for test results to find out if she died from a form of an affliction connected to mad cow disease.
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A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.