Hostage TakersGo behind the headlines to explore the wider background of news stories that are making a major impact across the world. In Hostage takers, we ask who are today's hostage takers and what do they want? What drives them to extreme action? We look at how captivity and stress affect the victims and ask whether we should negotiate with hostage takers. How can lives be saved and how can hostage taking be prevented in the first place?>

Falwell's life

Can he save the emperor's daughter from the evil ogre

2 million in the UK have survived a stroke - and so are at risk of another

Bush's post-presidency journey was filled with determination courage love hope humor fun and big ideas

Many people are turning to meditation as an effective way to relax and bring inner peace

Success hasn't come easily to photographer

He didn't ask for a father who never got over it

But when a freak earthquake hits California

The voices entirely diverse are both international and native: here we meet Hans Christian Andersen Paolo Barbaro Bernard Berenson Mary Braddon Casanova Chekov Thomas Coryate Gabriele D'Annunzio John Evelyn Hans Habe Hermann Melville Claude Monet Margaret Oliphant Ezra Pound Rainer Maria Rilke Francesco Sansovino Frances Trollope and Elio Zorzi

' Observer

the arrival of the Windrush from Jamaica making London even more multicultural and how London is still changing today with everyone wanting to see London's famous landmarks from St Paul's to the London Eye and Buckingham Palace

Steadfast encounters a motley but talented group of employees--from a mysterious elevator operator to the company historian to an elfin designer--who join him on the quest