Gadaffi son in bid to free hostage
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Members of the Gadaffi family have pledged to support efforts to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, his brother claims.
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Members of the Gadaffi family have pledged to support efforts to free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, his brother claimed today. Paul Bigley said that Colonel Gadaffiâs London-based
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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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The husband of Margaret Hassan, a  British-Iraqi aid worker snatched by kidnappers on her way to  work in Baghdad this week, appealed for her release on  Thursday.
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THE family of British engineer Kenneth Bigley, held hostage in Iraq for more than two weeks, has asked Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi to help secure his release, they said today.
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A man held hostage in Georgia tries to establish if reports that a man has been jailed for his kidnap are true.
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The family of a British hostage held in Iraq has appealed to Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi to help secure his release. The brother of hostage Kenneth Bigley spoke to the Libyan leader&#39;s son, Saif Gadhafi, and asked him to get his father involved.
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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 security agents intensified efforts to secure the toddler&#39;s release.
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A seven-year-old Lebanese boy has been kidnapped on his way home from school in Iraq by militants demanding a $US150,000 ($A203,693) ransom for his release, Lebanese officials said today.
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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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The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi  said Tuesday he was using his charity foundation contacts in  Iraq to help free British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who has been  held by Iraqi militants for nearly three weeks.
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THE brother of Ken Bigley, the British engineer being held hostage in Iraq, said yesterday he had received an offer of help from the family of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi.
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The release of two Italian women hostages in Iraq has given the family of British hostage Ken Bigley hope that he may also be freed soon, his younger brother said in remarks published in The Times.
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The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday intervened in efforts to secure the release of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley by calling on his kidnappers to contact him.
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LONDON - The British government and the brother of a British hostage have taken to Arab-language airwaves in an attempt to have him released from his captors in Iraq.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - Contacts began on Friday to try to win the release of a British toddler seized by kidnappers who have threatened to kill her unless they are paid ransom.
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The father of a British man held at Guantanamo Bay will meet American Embassy officials next week to seek permission to fly out and visit his son.