An American kidnapping expert and hostage negotiator has become a victim of kidnappers in northern Mexico.

Felix Batista, 55, was seized by armed men after leaving a restaurant in the city of Saltillo in Coahuila state on Dec. 10, according to Mexican authorities and newspapers.

His is a life imitating art, Hiroshi Nohara, of Japan has been living at the Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez airport in Mexico City since arriving there on September 2 and he does not want to leave yet.

Reminiscent of the Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones starrer, "The Terminal" where Hanks played to role of Viktor Navorski, a man from the fictional country of Krakozhia who arrived at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York only to find out that his country was overtaken by rebels mid-flight, invalidating his passport making him stateless and a fixture in the airport, Nahora has made Benito Juarez airport his "home."

The United States Coast Guard recovered a boat stolen from a Florida Keys dock in October off the Yucatan Peninsula with 15 Cuban migrants on board and two men suspected of stealing the vessel.

The two suspects and the 2008 Hydrosport police say the men stole from a Plantation Key home, were returned to Florida on Friday, Nov. 7, according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Popular Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan was the first choice of voters in a Muslim province in southern Philippines, having bested all his 'competitors' in a mock election held Tuesday using computerized machines.

The Commission on Elections on Tuesday conducted a mock elections for the August 11 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, a autonomous province comprised mostly of Muslims in southern Philippines to test-run the new automated poll machines.

A 61-year-old man was arrested for cross-border drug trafficking after police linked him to a Jesus statue made of cocaine.

Bernardino Garcia-Cordova admitted the statue was his after the woman, who was paid $80 to carry two religious statues over the Mexican border, led police to him. She told authorities she did not know the statue was made of drugs and invited them to follow her when she was to drop off the statues at a bus station. That's when they found Garcia-Cordova.