Hopes that five-year-old British boy Sahil Saeed had been found were dashed today as the police chief leading the investigation in Pakistan confirmed the search is ongoing.

The five-year-old British boy allegedly kidnapped by gunmen in Pakistan has been found, it was reported today.

The mother of a British boy held captive in Pakistan today said she forgave the kidnappers as she made an emotional plea for the safe return of her son.

THE mother of a five-year-old British boy snatched by gun-wielding robbers in Pakistan wept yesterday as she begged the kidnappers not to hurt him.

A five-year-old British boy was kidnapped today after his relatives were ambushed by gun-wielding robbers in Pakistan.

Despite seeing his side barely survive their inaugural season in the Premier League, Hull manager Phil Brown is bullish about the club’s future.

A four-member team from Britain’s Scotland Yard has arrived in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka to help police investigate a bloody mutiny that killed more than 70 people, mostly army officers, two weeks ago.

A hard-line Muslim cleric led a peace march in Pakistan’s Taliban stronghold of the Swat Valley today aimed at persuading them to accept a government peace deal.

The United Nations has declared the Pakistani capital Islamabad unsafe for the children of its international staff and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on a par with Kabul and Somalia.

A bomb blast at an Italian restaurant in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad tonight killed a Turkish woman and wounded 11 other people including a member of staff at the British High Commission and US Embassy staff.

Two British teenagers jailed in Ghana for drug smuggling will be free to come home in less than three months, it emerged today.

Malaysia’s prime minister urged ethnic Indians today to shun a protest aimed at airing their economic grievances, saying its planners were suspected of encouraging people to rebel.

The trial of two teenage British girls accused of attempting to smuggle £300,000 (€448,000) worth of cocaine to Britain began in a Ghana court today, officials said.

Two teenage British girls arrested in Ghana for allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine to Britain in laptop cases are expected to appear in court.

The mother of a three-year-old British girl who was snatched in Nigeria said the kidnappers phoned and threatened to kill her daughter.

About 300 Islamic opposition party activists staged peaceful protests outside the British and US embassies in Malaysia today, denouncing Salman Rushdie’s knighthood and Washington’s policies in the Middle East.

Top Muslim clerics in India said today that the British government had offended Muslims all over the world by conferring a knighthood on novelist Salman Rushdie.

Pakistan today condemned Britain’s award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie as an affront to Muslim sentiments, and a Cabinet minister said the honour provided a justification for suicide attacks.

Pakistani politicians have today passed a government-backed resolution demanding Britain withdraw the knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie.

Government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels clashed AGAIN in northern Sri Lanka today, as Britain suspended some aid payments to the country amid the intensified fighting.

The extradition hearing of an Indian man said to be the prime suspect in the rape and murder of a British girl was delayed today as the court waited to see if additional evidence could be presented.

British Chancellor Gordon Brown today said institutions like the Group of Eight leading nations, the UN and the International Monetary Fund must reform to reflect a “new world order” in the global economy.

Sri Lanka’s police today questioned a British diplomat over a photograph of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s motorcade which he captured on his mobile phone earlier in the day, the British embassy said.

AN INVESTIGATION into claims that British soldiers raped hundreds of women while training in Kenya has found no evidence that could lead to a successful prosecution, the Ministry of Defence said.

Tony Blair was due to arrive in Pakistan today, a day after a British man who had spent 18 years on death row in the country was freed.

HER father said it would be a two-week holiday to learn about her Pakistani heritage.

A man holding dual Pakistani and British nationality on death row for murder has been granted a stay of execution in Pakistan until October 1.

ntelligence agents in Pakistan arrested at least seven people, including two British nationals of Pakistani origin, who provided information on the terror plot aimed at blowing up US-bound passenger jets from Britain, a senior government official said today.

THOUSANDS of protesters rampaged through two cities yesterday in Pakistan’s worst violence against the Prophet Mohammed drawings, officials said.

Britain plans to help New Delhi develop its civilian nuclear program, impressed by the easing of tensions between India and Pakistan, and the south Asian country’s “responsible” role in world affairs, said defence secretary John Reid.

Nigerian police and soldiers freed two kidnapped expatriate oil workers, one of whom is thought to be Irish, during a rescue operation in the country’s southern oil-rich delta today, a police spokesman said.

A British man in custody in Zambia in connection with the July 7 London bombings was once a body guard for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, Zambian security officials said today.

Kindhearted pop beauty Kylie Minogue is coming to the aid of tsunami orphans, while she continues to fight her battle against breast cancer.

Police in Jamaica have interviewed the father of 19-year-old London suicide bomb suspect Germaine Lindsay, the British High Commission said today.

British Development Minister Gareth Thomas began a two-day visit to tsunami-affected areas in Sri Lanka today to assess the progress of British-funded projects, the British High Commission said.

Britian's Prince Charles sampled Fiji’s mildly narcotic drink, kava, and was presented with a roasted pig and several brightly coloured mats at an elaborate welcoming ceremony by Fijian villagers today.

An Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility today for shooting down an RAF Hercules transport plane with a missile, killing ten British servicemen and backed up their claim with a video.

An Iraqi militant group has claimed responsibility today for bringing down an RAF Hercules transport plane, killing at least nine troops.

Two Britons were missing for over a month in Zimbabwe before their bodies were found in a well in an exclusive Harare suburb.

Pitcairn Island has picked the sister of convicted rapist Steve Christian to be its first woman mayor in its 214-year history, it was reported today.

Victims of the sex crimes six men of tiny Pitcairn Island experienced "a mix of emotions" when told of the sentences handed down to the men, a policewoman close to the victims said.

Pitcairn islander Mike Warren has said he believed the prosecutions of a number of men from the island on sex abuse charges were a British “set-up”.

Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

Seven men on trial for alleged sex attacks on tiny Pitcairn island – home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers – might have to wait until next year to learn if they will face jail, British officials said today.