Seven years before Gone Girl hit bookshelves and was later turned into an award-winning film, a startlingly similar scenario played out in real life. Just days before her planned $100,000 April 2005 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania - A white limousine screeches to a halt and a bride, resplendent in frothy gown and veil, is hauled outside by her abductors. It's one of Romania's more colorful customs: ...

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, involves a man abducting the woman he wishes to marry. What to know about the bride kidnapping tradition [Medium] Bride ...

BISHKEK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Walking proudly down a catwalk, the lights and glamor seemed like a lifetime away from Elzat Kazakbaeva's nightmare ordeal five years ago when she was grabbed ...

In Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, two countries in central Asia between Russia and China, there is a so-called tradition of bride kidnapping. Young women are abducted, often in broad daylight, and taken ...