A 5-year-old British boy who was kidnapped and held in Pakistan for two weeks arrived safely back in Britain on Thursday. Sahil Saeed, who is of Pakistani origin, was snatched March 4 from his grandparents' house in central Pakistan, where he was vacationing. He was released unharmed Tuesday, and ...

Smiling and in high spirits, a five-year-old British boy boarded a flight home from Pakistan on Thursday after being reunited with his father following a 12-day kidnapping ordeal. Sporting a new haircut, Sahil Saeed kicked a football around the lawn of the British high commissioner's residence in Islamabad, joined by a little girl playmate, and was smothered in hugs ...

A Franco-British staffer of the international Red Cross kidnapped in Darfur last October was freed on Thursday, the last captive aid worker in the war-torn Sudanese region to be released. "I am extremely relieved to be freed. I want to thank everyone involved. I know many people worked for my release," Gauthier Lefevre said after arriving at Khartoum airport. "It ...

Seven Chinese hostages who were freed by an armed gang in Cameroon's southwest Bakassi region arrived "traumatised" Thursday in Yaounde, the capital, Chinese source said. The seven fishermen went straight to the Chinese embassy, where ambassador Xue Jinwei received them over lunch and listened to their six-day ordeal, a Chinese diplomat said. "Even if they weren't assaulted they ...