A Saudi airforce sergeant stationed in the United States was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy in a Las Vegas hotel, police said Friday.

Police on Friday arrested a man accused of entering a kidnapping conspiracy with a New York City police officer who had allegedly also plotted to cook and eat women.

War-torn Syria is threatened with "schemes of division and partition", the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised speech on Thursday.

Indian police on Thursday formally charged five men with murder, kidnapping and rape following the fatal gang-rape of a woman that has appalled the nation.

The acting head of the criminal investigations department in Libya's second city Benghazi has been kidnapped at gunpoint, officials told AFP on Thursday.

A freelance American reporter who contributed videos to Agence France-Presse (AFP) in recent months was kidnapped in war-torn Syria six weeks ago and has been missing ever since, his family revealed Wednesday.

Two tired-looking Jordanian peacekeepers arrived in the Sudanese capital on Wednesday after their release from a record 136 days of captivity in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.

Two Jordanian peacekeepers have been freed after 136 days of captivity in Sudan's Darfur region, the African Union-UN mission to the troubled region said on Wednesday.

A car bomb killed at least 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan on Sunday as security forces searched for the killers of 21 kidnapped troops in the troubled northwest, officials said.

A car bomb killed at least 19 Shiite Muslim pilgrims in southwest Pakistan Sunday as troops searched for the killers of 21 kidnapped soldiers in the troubled northwest, officials said.

Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers who they had kidnapped in raids on two camps outside Peshawar in the troubled northwest of the country, officials said Sunday.

Taliban militants have shot dead 21 Pakistani soldiers who were kidnapped three days ago in a raid on two camps in the troubled northwest of the country, officials said Sunday.

A six-year-old girl flew back to Britain for an emotional reunion with her mother on Friday more than three years after she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan.

A six-year-old girl flew back to Britain for an emotional reunion with her mother on Friday more than three years after she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan.

A six-year-old girl is on her way home to Britain more than three years after she was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan, police said on Friday.

Around 200 heavily-armed militants stormed two government paramilitary camps in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing two security personnel and kidnapping at least 22, officials said.

President Francois Hollande said Thursday Islamist groups holding French hostages in Africa were not trustworthy and should not be taken seriously after Al-Qaeda accused Paris of blocking negotiations for their release.

Foreign Minister Bob Carr welcomed news that Australian man Warren Rodwell was alive after being held hostage for more than a year in the Philippines, but said his prolonged captivity was a "major concern".

Foreign Minister Bob Carr welcomed news that Australian man Warren Rodwell was alive after being held hostage for more than a year in the Philippines, but said his prolonged captivity was a "major concern".

A new video emerged on Wednesday of an Australian man kidnapped by suspected Muslim extremists in the Philippines more than a year ago.