Kidnapped journalist freed in Iraq

LONDON - Kidnappers have released an Irish journalist abducted while on assignment in Baghdad, a British government source said.

Rory Carroll, 33, is "safe and well" and has contacted his family and spoken to British officials, the source said.

The Dublin-born journalist, who has been in Iraq since January, had been interviewing a family about the start of Saddam Hussein's trial before being abducted.

- REUTERS