This is how women over 50 are reshaping solo travel
More about this topic
Woman who died trying to protect Brit tourists from kidnappers is named
Unidentified armed men ambushed the tourists' convoy on Friday and killed the park ranger while they were gorilla trekking at Virunga National Park.
Britain apologises for appalling treatment of Libyan dissident & his wife
UK intelligence services helped the CIA abduct Abdul Hakim Belhadj and his then-pregnant wife in 2004 from Thailand to return them to Tripoli, where Abdul was tortured. Now Britain has admitted its mistake and paid compensation.
Erdogan slams Kosovo PM over sackings after Gulen-linked deportations
The Turkish president promises Ramush Haradinaj "he will pay" for sacking senior officials after six Turks working in Kosovo were hunted down and deported back to Turkey.
Nigeria: Scores of kidnapped schoolgirls are freed
The government says 76 of the 110 girls abducted in Dapchi last month by Islamist militants have been returned to the northeastern town
ADVERTISEMENT
Lana Del Rey kidnapping foiled
Police in the USA have arrested a man who reportedly threatened to kidnap the singer Lana Del Rey
Suspect denies abduction of girl from French wedding
Colombia's ELN rebels admit hostage killed in April
Colombia's ELN rebel group has admitted a Russian-Armenian citizen it held hostage for six months was killed in April.
Baby found dead in car stolen from family driveway
Afghan children 'abducted for training as suicide bombers'
Male style icon's body found mutilated in Baghdad
Boko Haram frees 82 Chibok school girls
82 Nigerian schoolgirls Kidnapped by Boko Haram three years ago in Chibok have been freed.
Boko Haram frees 82 Chibok schoolgirls in prisoner swap
Boko Haram militants have released 82 of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in the Nigerian town of Chibok more than three years ago.
UN official kidnapped by dissident former FARC rebels
A UN official is said to have been kidnapped in Colombia by dissident, former FARC rebels who have rejected the peace process.
Mexico probe into suspected student massacre 'has stalled'
A human rights group says the investigation into the disappearance of 43 student teachers in 2014 has failed to make significant progress for 16 months.
UN refugees released by South Sudanese refugee captors
More than a dozen United Nations mission staff have been released by South Sudanese refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
1000 days with Boko Haram: any hope for the remaining 196 Chibok schoolgirls?
The world was struck with distraught in April 2014 when Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram raided a school's dormitories at night in the northern town of Chibok and abducted 276 schoolgirls.
10 years on: family of vanished CIA operative hopeful he's alive
Former FBI agent Robert Levinson disappeared in Iran ten years ago while on an unauthorised mission for the CIA.
Mystery as family-of-four disappear in France
Prosecutors in Nantes have opened an investigation into murder, abduction and illegal confinement. Intensive searches are underway for the Troadec family who have disappeared from their bloodstained h
Ex-CIA officer avoids extradition to Italy in "rendition" case
A former CIA officer convicted of involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Italy has been released by authorities in Lisbon after winning a last minute reprieve from…
German hostage beheaded by ISIL affiliated group in the Philippines
The ISIL affiliated group Abu Sayyaf has released footage which appears to show a German hostage being beheaded in the Philippines.