A six-year-old girl thought to have been born in the captivity of a trio of suspected kidnappers is “happy and healthy”, police say. Jocelyn, ...

Two men have been convicted of hatching a plot to rob and kill international pop star Joss Stone. Junior Bradshaw, 32, and Kevin Liverpool, 35, har...

Two men hatched a plot to rob and kill international pop star Joss Stone before dumping her body in a river, a court has heard. Junior Bradshaw and...

The Foreign Office is "urgently investigating" claims that a British man has been killed in Nigerian. The unsubstantiated claims come from a breaka...

An apparent surge of terrorist activity across northern Africa has focused a spotlight on the dangers facing foreigners in the region, especially the ...

British construction workers may have been among seven kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria, after a gang killed a guard at a site in Bauchi state on Saturd...

Police in Ireland are investigating the discovery of a developer believed to have been held hostage for eight months before being found wandering bare...

Prime Minister David Cameron said tonight the country should be "prepared for the possibility of further bad news" in the hostage crisis in Algeria as...

"Several" British nationals have been caught up in a terrorist attack on an oil facility in Algeria, Downing Street have said. UK sources were unab...

A British woman kidnapped in Ecuador while visiting a remote nature reserve in the Amazon jungle has been rescued. Kathryn Sara Cox, 23, was abduct...

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with kidnap and sexual assault by detectives investigating an alleged assault on a five-year-old girl. The incid...

A married couple have been sentenced by a Spanish court to 10 years in jail each for kidnapping a five-year-old British boy. A panel of three judge...

After a week of hanging out in Mexican brothels, I was no nearer to the story I was investigating on the disappearance of thousands of Honduran women.

Kate and Gerry McCann have spoken of their renewed hope that their daughter Madeleine will be found five years on from her disappearance in Portugal. ...

British charity worker Khalil Dale has been killed in Pakistan after being kidnapped in January, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Sunday. Da...

A British woman snatched by pirates from an east African island flew back to Britain tonight after being released from captivity. Judith Tebbutt ha...

A voice was apparently heard pleading for mercy before a young mother was kidnapped from her home and killed. Kirsty Treloar, 20, was abducted shor...

A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates have criticised the Government for giving the job of handling their case to the Foreign Office, rather th...

Criminals who entice children into their cars without lying or using force are escaping kidnap charges due to a loophole in the law, the Government&ap...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A Kenyan man charged in court in connection with a deadly attack on a British couple told officials that a gang abducted him at g...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A couple who were held hostage for more than a year by Somali pirates will take to the seas again in the yacht they were sailing ...