An animal rights group has urged a football team to cut its ties with holiday firm TUI which sells holiday packages to venues with captive dolphins People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) penned a letter to Luton Town FC’s commercial
Austrian prosecutors are appealing a court’s recent decision to move Josef Fritzl, dubbed the “monster of Amstetten,” who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven of her children, to regular prison. The decision came down last week, when a
Israelis released from captivity in Gaza reconvened in their ravaged border village on Tuesday to hold a solemn first-birthday ceremony for the infant of a family still held hostage. Kfir Bibas was eight-months-old when Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen stormed Kibbutz Nir Oz on
One of the two hostages released by Hamas offered an incredible act of forgiveness to one of the terrorists holding her captive, an emotional video shows. In an astonishing clip depicting Yocheved Lifschitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, being handed over by
A French official detained in Niger last week has been released, the French government said Thursday. The arrest heightened tensions between France and Niger, where military officers deposed an elected president last month and ordered French officials to leave. France’s Foreign Ministry
A 55-year-old German man who was arrested after his wife accused him of holding her captive for over a decade will be released without charges, the lead prosecutor in the French city of Sarreguemines said Tuesday. The woman, aged 53, was found
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had facilitated the release of 125 Sudanese army soldiers held captive by the country’s rival paramilitary force. The soldiers walked free on Wednesday, the ICRC said, as the violent conflict between the
A French citizen and another holding dual French-Irish nationality have been freed from an Iranian prison, French authorities said Friday, the culmination of a hard-fought effort to bring them home. Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, who both had been held in a
The killer whale named Kiska at Canada’s Marineland theme park, the country’s last captive orca who swam alone in her tank for more than a decade, has died. Brent Ross, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Solicitor General in Ontario that
A high-relief wall sculpture showing a female ruler subduing a captive male warrior was just uncovered, authorities in Mexico said Monday. The statuary found at the Mayan ruin site of Ek’Balam, on the Yucatan peninsula, shows a figure wearing a skirt with