Missing Children and Missing Persons

Thriller (1982) was Jackson's masterpiece; it was also his curse. It won him unprecedented adoration: No one—not Frank Sinatra, not Elvis Presley, not the Beatles—commanded as large a global audience. But it was also a commercial and artistic mileston

Farrah Fawcett, 62, golden-haired sex symbol of the late 1970s most remembered for her appearance on bedroom posters and the detective series "Charlie's Angels" and who later found a niche portraying troubled women in made-for-television dramas, died toda

Parents of Neda Soltan, the young woman shot dead near protests, are banned from mourning and her funeral is cancelled, neighbours say. They also said that her family no longer lives in the four-floor apartment building on Meshkini Street.

A Washington, D.C., Metro train struck another train on the same Red Line track at the height of the evening rush hour yesterday, killing at least six and injuring at least 70 in the deadliest accident in Metrorail's 33-year-history.

Police said Wednesday that a private DNA test indicates a "probability" that a Michigan man was a 2-year-old Long Island child who disappeared in 1955.

A passer-by who made an emotional 911 call Tuesday said she noticed the naked infant in the grass while driving by a discount store. Sheriff Davis said the baby boy was left in a place where someone would find him. The umbilical cord was still attached.

A pregnant 21-year-old newcomer found dead in a crawl space of a suburban home had been cut open and her baby delivered from her womb, investigators said Monday.It couldn't be determined if the baby died before or after he was removed from the womb.

Parents of the children trapped in a burning Mexican day care center rammed their vehicles into the building to try to free the trapped children, witnesses told CNN.

Twenty-seven children were killed and more than 100 others were injured Friday when their daycare center caught fire in the northwestern state of Sonora, the local governor said, citing figures from the state attorney's office.

Two decades after the massacre in Beijing, the event remains a taboo in China. The former pro-democracy activists are scattered around the world and hope that the truth will one day emerge as to what happened on that fateful June 4.

The Pakistani military says dozens of students abducted by militants in the northwest of the country have been freed. Soldiers had opened fire on the militants as they were taking the students to South Waziristan. "Under cover of the firing the...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities negotiated on Tuesday for the release of about 200 students and staff from a military-run college abducted by Taliban militants as they traveled home for a holiday.

The lack of information about the 10 thousand Iraqis listed as missing — likely only a small fraction of the actual total — has left their relatives in limbo.

Many millenniums flowers personify beauty at people, pleasure and perfection of the nature.

A Saudi inventor's application to patent a "killer chip," has been denied. The basic model would consist of a tiny GPS transceiver placed in a capsule and inserted under a person's skin, so that authorities could track him easily...

If Etan Patz is remembered for anything, hopefully it wont be the dubious distinction of being the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton. The boy, only six at the time of his disappearance, vanished from Manhattan?s Soho District near

By NBC News’ Mushtaq Yusufzai MARDAN, Pakistan – Shaista, a terrified 11-year-old girl from the Swat Valley, was lying in a hospital bed in Mardan’s ill-equipped health center on Friday. She suffered severe injuries to her legs when an artillery...

In December, Brehanna joined the ranks of homeless children — a group that includes one child out of every 50 in America. Her father, Joe, couldn't get through to her as they packed the family's 1986 Pontiac that she would not be able to bring her bed.

3 yr old Briant Rodriguez was abducted from his home 48 hours ago at gunpoint. Abductors were thin, light-skinned Latinos. One is about 18 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches tall and was wearing blue jeans, a green T-shirt and a black baseball cap. Another about