Hostage slaughterhouse found
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BAGHDAD: US-backed Iraqi forces claimed yesterday to have found a &quot;slaughterhouse&quot; for hostages in Fallujah, said to be used by Islamic militants to execute foreign captives.
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British, American and Iraqi authorities were trying last night to secure the freedom of Margaret Hassan, the Irish-born aid worker kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday.
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Iraq's military said on Wednesday it  had found houses in northern Falluja where hostages had been  held and killed by their militant kidnappers, and records of  those abducted.
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The chief of Iraq&#39;s military said Wednesday his troops found &quot;hostage slaughterhouses&quot; in Fallujah. The troops did not find any of the nine foreign hostages currently missing in Iraq.
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Police free a man at a hotel in Milton Keynes after he was taken hostage in the Limehouse area of London.
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An undercover worker details illegal cruelty to cows at a California slaughterhouse.
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The body of an Egyptian who was  kidnapped last month has been found in northern Iraq, police  said on Sunday, while French leaders held a crisis meeting in  Paris on the fate of two French hostages.
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MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia was in shock Wednesday as an armed group took more than 200 people hostage at a school near Chechnya just hours after a suicide bomber killed 11 people and injured dozens outside a busy Moscow subway station.
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Kidnappers in Nigeria free a three-year-old British girl held hostage since Thursday, officials say.
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Iraqi troops have found &quot;hostage slaughterhouses&quot; in Fallujah where foreign captives were held and killed, the commander of Iraqi forces in the city said Wednesday.
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Nigerian troops have rounded up scores of suspected militants in their hunt for hostage-takers as one of two Germans abducted in the oil-rich Niger Delta was released.
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Undercover video leads to recall of 143m lbs of beef from a southern California slaughterhouse
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-- Afghan security forces surrounded the location where Taliban fighters are suspected to be holding 23 South Korean hostages yesterday and were prepared to launch an operation if negotiations broke down, officials said.
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The three-day hostage siege at a school in southern Russia ended in chaos and bloodshed Friday, after witnesses said Chechen militants set off bombs and Russian commandos stormed the building. Hostages fled in terror, many of them children who were half-naked and covered in blood. Officials estimated the death toll at more than 200.
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Kidnappers abducted six Egyptians and four Iraqis working for the country&#39;s mobile-phone company, authorities said yesterday, and Muslim leaders in Britain announced plans to send negotiators to Baghdad in hopes of winning the release of hostage Kenneth
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Militants who claim to be holding a Northern Ireland woman and two others hostage in Afghanistan have said they are suffering the effects of the cold and a poor diet.
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Australia is investigating reports that two of its citizens have been taken hostage by militants in Iraq.