41.   Women are kidnapped or answer advertisements in their home countries for jobs as au pairs, secretaries or waitresses, the report said.

42.   He confessed having kidnapped the woman from her apartment and driving her to a wooded area where, he maintained, she was shot by his sister.

43.   In most of the cases, the federation said, the women were kidnapped and then sold at high prices to men who cannot find a wife.

44.   According to eye-witness accounts reported in the Algerian media, armed fundamentalist groups have repeatedly kidnapped young women to force them into such unions.

45.   Costa Rican authorities appeared Sunday to be making progress in the two-week-old hunt for two kidnapped European women, according to press reports and witnesses.

46.   The illustrated mythology of the yeti dates back to the fourth century BC in central Asia, showing the great beast kidnapping women and stealing camels.