A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in...

The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.In the end, it was a daring operation by Colombian military intelligence agents that...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Ingrid Betancourt, the symbol of rebel hostages in Colombia, hugged and wept with her children for the first time in six years on Thursday after a military rescue that dealt a severe blow to already weakened...

Father confesses he held daughter prisoner for nearly 24 years Man known as Mr. F. admits fathering seven children by his daughter. One of the seven children died and was burned in an oven, Mr. F. said The 42-year-old woman had been missing...

Some French citizens held as hostages around the globe have died in captivity, sometimes in total anonymity. President Nicolas Sarkozy doesn’t want that to happen with Ingrid Betancourt.If Sarkozy’s bid to get Colombian rebels to free...

France is ready to take in Colombian rebels freed from jail in their homeland in exchange for hostage Ingrid Betancourt, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Sunday.In an apparent gesture toward rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...

Police in Miami say a gunman has been wounded after taking a store manager hostage during a botched robbery attempt.Police and witnesses say the man went into a Walgreen’s drugstore early Saturday, made employees lie on the floor and forced...

Four Belgian tourists held hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday after security forces in boats and helicopters located the group in Guatemala’s eastern jungle, officials said.The four Belgians, their Guatemalan guide and...

Four Belgian tourists taken hostage by protesting farmers were released late Saturday as security forces in boats and helicopters closed in on them in Guatemala’s eastern jungle, an official said.The Belgians _ two men and two women _ their...

The militant group that has claimed the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq has responded to pleas for their release by saying the British government is at fault for its decision to participate in the Iraq invasion, a group that tracks Islamic...