The missing children's group that last week reconnected American kidnap victim Carlina White with her real parents says calls to its helpline doubled after the news made headlines.

A man will appear in court tomorrow in connection with an alleged assault and abduction on Great Barrier Island.

Two men have been accused of a "hate crime" for allegedly kidnapping two men before ordering them out of town.

The British man whose wife was murdered while the couple was on honeymoon in South Africa last month has been arrested.

The three suspects in the killing of a honeymooning tourist in South Africa appear in court.

Elizabeth Smart is the perfect advertisement for one of the world's fastest-growing religions - Mormonism.

A man has been arrested for a series of sexual assaults on other men.

George Baker is an evil man and should only be let out of prison in a coffin, says the father of the teenager he killed four years ago.

A woman who admitted trying to snatch a baby from a Christchurch hospital is now four months pregnant, a court was told today.

In his first interview Josef Fritzl said his dream was to "look after my wife again because she was always loyal to me."