Mumbai Attack:Turkish couple let off by terrorists for being Muslims

" NowPublic Mumbai Channel A coordinated series of attacks took place across Mumbai on November 26, 2008. Follow updates on this unfolding story from NowPublic members, consult Mumbai resources and emergency...

Mumbai Attack: Israel- 'India mishandled hostage situation'

" NowPublic Mumbai Channel A coordinated series of attacks took place across Mumbai on November 26, 2008. Follow updates on this unfolding story from NowPublic members, consult Mumbai resources and emergency...

Ballroom Blitz - Commandoes Stalk Lone Gunman on Taj Dance Floor

IT IS believed that a lone gunman remains, possibly with hostages at the Taj Palace Hotel, in Mumbai tonight as commandoes strive to close down the terrorist attack. The gunman has cut out the lights on the ballroom dance floor.     " There was...

Mumbai Attack: 6 hostages killed at Oberoi Trident hotel, 93 hostages, mostly...

" NowPublic Mumbai Channel A coordinated series of attacks took place across Mumbai on November 26, 2008. Follow updates on this unfolding story from NowPublic members, consult Mumbai resources and emergency...

Armed men loot bank, escape with Rs4 mn

"Updated at: 1225 PST, Friday, November 14, 2008  KARACHI: Eight armed men looted Rs4 million from a commercial bank in Muaripur Road and fled with money after killing a policeman and a security guard on Friday, police officials said.They said eight armed...

Abducted Canadian reporter held in a cave for four weeks

"KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan kidnappers kept CBC reporter Mellissa Fung in an tiny underground cave for four weeks, the freed journalist said in a videotape released Sunday. The cave was so small that she could...

Gunman arrested after Maine students held hostage

"(10-31) 10:13 PDT Stockton Springs, Maine (AP) -- A gunman who had been on the lam for a week held 11 fifth-graders hostage at a school Friday but was tackled outside a classroom without any harm to the children, police said. ...

Pro-government elders held hostages by Taliban in the restive Mohmand Agency ...

GHALANAI: Local Taliban of Mohmand tribal region on Thursday have held several tribal elders as hostages in their houses in tehsil Pindiali after they facilitated a joint visit of the Political Agent and FC Commandant to the Danishkol area of that tehsil on Wednesday morning...

Militants take 100 children hostage in Pak school

There is this breaking news coming from Pakistan's north western province. The region had faced a severe earthquake earlier in the day and now reports are coming that more than 100 school children have been taken hostage in their school. Students have been hostage...

Hostage and death in Brazil

This crime has chocked Brazil, nobody understand exactly why Lindemberg (22) made a hostage of his young girl friend Eloá (15) and another girl called Nayara (15). São Paulo police has invaded the...

Hostage drama ends peacefully in Guatemala - 43 hostages unharmed

Thankfully the crisis ended without any loss to live and property. " A hostage drama ended peacefully in Guatemala overnight after the 29-year-old hostage-taker released the 43 people he had held for more than four hours, Spanish media reported Tuesday. The man,...

Pirates of Somalia don't give up T72 tanks, 6 US + 1 russian warship in place

Pirates, no indication to surrenderU.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitors the pirated Ukrainian cargo ship Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia, carrying T-72tanks. Six U.S. warships circled the...

Regina school hostage taking ends peacefully

A Tuesday morning hostage taking incident at Luther College High School in Regina, Saskatchewan, has ended without casualties.   A former student held a pastor hostage at gunpoint during the school's morning chapel service."Trista Gargol, a student at the...

Update:False reports that tourists abducted in Egypt 'free'

Earlier announcement by Egyptian foreign minister was wrong - hostages are at this time still held.;Earlier post:Good news on the Egyptian story that Sanjay highlighted earlier - all hostages are now free."Eleven European tourists and eight Egyptians kidnapped in southern...

Kidnappers took Afghan envoy to Jamrud, says Pakistani official

"ISLAMABAD: Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior, Rehman Malik Monday said the abducted Afghan ambassador embarked on a journey without prior information and security and termed it a violation of the diplomatic norms.Talking to Geo News, the Interior Advisor said the...

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