Kate and Gerry McCann asked to the British Government “to reopen the case of disappearance, three years ago, of their daughter Madeleine, after knowing the existence of 2 thousand clues that were ignored by the Portuguese police”.

Basque armed and separatist group ETA plans to conduct two major attacks and a kidnapping of a relevant charge in 2010, according to a police report which Radio Euskadi has obtained.

Maria Cristina Robert is Graciela Viagran’s mother, the woman who went missing on November 14 along with her husband, Fernando Pomar, and her two daughters, as they travelled to Pergamino.

A new video shows the Pomar family was in their vehicle on Saturday November 14, the day they went missing and their intense search began.

A distraught British coupple being held hostage by Somalian pirates warned in a video released last night by Channel 4 that they could be killed “within a week” unless a 4.3m pounds ransom is paid. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Yoani Sanchez, 34, Cuban blogger and winner of several international awards, confirmed that today, “was detained for twenty minutes and mistreated by the police on his way to a demonstration in favor of nonviolence.”

The two minors arrested yesterday on suspicion of attacking the former player Fernando Caceres, in Ciudadela, were identified by the woman who accompanied the former footballer and the kidnapped taxi driver. They are 15 and 16. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

Moments ago, the Education Minister, Mariano Narodowski, lodged a complaint over a fake kidnapping attempt at Police Station No. 34 in Pompeya.

Pablo Metica’s body, uno of the alleged kidnappers of Pablo Echarri’s father, was found inside a plastic bag in the trunk of a Mercedes Benz, at a corner in Villa Dominico, Avellaneda.

The hair is darker and her face appears to have filled out a touch during the 18 years she so famously spent in captivity, but Jaycee Lee Dugard’s timid smile and those piercing blue eyes are more or less the same. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The Judicial Council ordered today to start impeachment against the federal Judge of Zarate-Campana, Federico Faggionato Marquez, for malfeasance in office and suspended him until the end of the process.

The Justice of San Isidro gave an unthought ruling where they decided to acquit the four accused for the kidnapping of the young Pablo Belluscio in 2003, who had even his finger mutilated during captivity, by “gross mistakes” committed during the investigation stage.

Ten years ago, an assault with hostage-taking in a branch of the National Bank located in the Buenos Aires town of Villa Ramallo took place. The incident unfolded minutes after 8 am and tension lasted throught the day. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

María Videla was born in 1976. She was sold by a midwife and five years ago she started looking for her real parents after learning she was adopted, same as her brother, Gastón.

A group of gunmen kidnapped two yet unidentified UN staff members of the African Union peacemaking mission in the west Darfur town of Zalingei.

Last night, two criminals, kidnapped Maximiliano Donofrio, a young 18 year old man in Carapachay.

A bank clerk was kidnapped in Villa Soldati by delinquents who caught him in his car and then liberated him two hours later, upon receiving 10 thousand pesos that were paid in Bajo Flores.

Wanda Nara managed to escape a band of kidnappers who intercepted her in a favela of Porto Alegre, Brazil.

At 8:45 pm a 16 year old child entered the perfume shop of 3771 Rivadavia Avenue, just before closing time, taking hostage all four people present at the store. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)