Holding Son Captive

Swedish prosecutors said Thursday they no longer suspected a woman of holding her son captive in their apartment for decades, saying he had not been held against his will.

The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a day long standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed a New Jersey home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive, authorities said on Sunday.

A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...

Swedish prosecutors said Thursday they no longer suspected a woman of holding her son captive in their apartment for decades, saying he had not been held against his will.

The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a day long standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed a New Jersey home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive, authorities said on Sunday.

A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...