Uber ride gone wrong Abducted woman rescued after she passes note to stranger at gas station: "Help. Call 911" Carla Sinclair

arrests Kidnapped woman rescued from rental truck after traffic stop Rob Beschizza

kidnappings Two men in the middle of kidnapping a Louisiana woman drown on the job Carla Sinclair

uganda American tourist and Ugandan guide kidnapped by gunmen at popular safari park Carla Sinclair

crimes Woman escapes kidnapper by leaping out of the trunk of his moving car Rob Beschizza

piracy My 977 days held hostage by Somali pirates: journalist Michael Scott Moore Mark Frauenfelder

Republicans GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel sees the war in Israel as an opportunity for Republicans Jason Weisberger

noir Take a lurid look at LA noir Bob Knetzger

cars Driving techniques for escape and evasion David Pescovitz

News Hundreds of students kidnapped in Nigeria's Katsina, frantic parents beg authorities to save boys abducted by gunmen Xeni Jardin

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

World Mental Health Day It's World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism The latest popular uprising in Hong Kong is fighting to keep Beijing from dragging dissidents to mainland China Cory Doctorow

class war Terror as disappearances follow Chinese student communists' solidarity with striking workers Cory Doctorow

News Mexico: 166 human skulls found in Veracruz clandestine mass grave Xeni Jardin

happy mutants His Dream of Skyland, a mysterious and touching journey through opium-drenched colonial Hong Kong Cory Doctorow

medicine Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war Séamus Bellamy

News Nicaragua: Ortega blames civilian murders he ordered on a 'coup-mongering satanic sect' (he's lying) Séamus Bellamy