Ingrid Betancourts Homecoming Soured By Claims Of Secret Payoff - Times Online

Rich Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are having tiny radio transmitters planted under their skin so they can be quickly tracked and rescued.

A cyclist who pedaled the world for more than 40 years, braving raging rivers, a lion and the hospitality of an Eskimo princess, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver in Greece.

A US navy flagship has steamed into a Georgian port where Russian troops are still stationed, stoking tensions once again in the tinderbox Caucasus region.

John McCain last night sought to drag the Republican party back on course for a third successive presidential victory by re-casting it in his own self-image of a maverick reformer ready to reach out across political divisions and end "partisan rancour".

There they go, slouching through the gates, strategically scuffing their smart new blazers, hitching up their skirts and chucking their apples and muesli bars straight into the bin.

The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, grey surprise to science the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for maths as well Under carefully controlled experimental conditions...

In February 2004 he stabbed to death a Zurich-based air traffic controller who was on duty the night that Kaloyev's wife and two children died in a mid-air collision.

A scientist has devised a new weapon in the fight against global warming: a fleet of 1,500 unmanned sailing ships creating wakes that whiten clouds to reflect the heat of the Sun better.

Mrs Palin awoke yesterday to unfounded internet rumours that her fifth child, born in April with Down’s Syndrome, was actually her 17-year-old daughter’s.

Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia's highest profile hostage, was freed tonight along with three US military contractors in an 'audacious' raid that dealt the biggest blow yet to the country's Marxist rebel movement...

Harrowing details of the captivity of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages in Colombia have emerged...