Missing person news headlines

Jessica Louise Stephens hasn't contacted her family since travelling to Kakadu last Thursday.

Defence Minister Gen. Li Shangfu is the second senior Chinese official to disappear this year, following former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who was removed from office in July with no explanation offered.

The woman and her child have been located and are safe.

Jayden Usher, 28, went missing from Kingaroy almost a week ago with his family describing is disappearance as "out of character".

Colorado man Chad Pallansch sent a text message two weeks ago and hasn't been heard from since.

Police located the 13-year-old in Sydney after he went missing at 7pm on Thursday.

A suspect is now in custody after Charlotte went missing and never returned during an evening bike ride with friends.

The remains of Suzanne Morphew were positively identified after she vanished on Mother's Day 2020.

The grim discovery followed an extensive police operation at Dee Why on the Northern Beaches.

Prosecutors are looking at evidence related to the disappearance of toddler William Tyrrell, who vanished from a property linked to his foster family in 2014.

The four young children who went missing from Western Sydney last weekend have been found "safe and well".

Police are appealing for the public's help to locate an 11-year-old girl missing for two days south of Perth.

Summer, 14, was last seen on Chapel Street in Prahran.

Police are appealing for help to find a missing eight-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her home in Western Australia today.

Three boys - Judah El-Hajj aged 9, Azaiah El-Hajj aged 12, Mikael El-Hajj also aged 12, and Malaika El-Hajj, a 16-year-old girl, were last seen in Doonside on Saturday evening.

They flew to Pakistan hours before Sara was found, with her father and his wife going into hiding, sparking a police manhunt.

Before her disappearance, Tina Louise Greer frequently told her daughter she could not leave bikie Lesley "Grumpy" Sharman because he would kill her, a coroner has heard.

The manhunt for Sara Sharif's runaway father and stepmother continues but the dead UK girl's five siblings have been ordered into government custody by a Pakistan court.

Emergency workers have uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya's eastern city of Derna.

Dozens of police smashed into Sara's grandfather's home in Pakistan, seizing five young children and CCTV cameras

William's foster mother described hearing the toddler playing on the deck of the house, making a roaring tiger noise, and then 'nothing'.

The 14-year-old was last seen in Oxley yesterday morning.

The mother and grandmother of Sara Sharif have described how they barely recognised the 10-year-old schoolgirl in the mortuary.

A second body has been found after two fishermen were reported missing in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains earlier this week.

The two men, both aged 73, have been missing in remote bushland since late Wednesday.

Robert Atkins was allegedly kidnapped by a gang of criminals and held under 'physical and coercive control' in 2020.

Campbell was just 21 when she went missing in 1984 from her Melbourne home.

Sara's grandfather tried to explain the reasons why his son fled the UK and has gone into hiding in Pakistan.

Urfan Sharif wanted eight plane tickets to Pakistan, and he wanted them quickly.

Tips from other hikers helped search party find Adam Fuselier's body

Police are appealing for help to find a missing 90-year-old with dementia after he disappeared from a western Sydney nursing home at 4.30am today.

Police will examine missing persons files in a bid to identify suspected human remains found at a popular Far North Queensland tourist spot.

The remains had clearly been there for some time, police said.

Sara's uncle told police about a supposed fatal accident in family's UK home, but he insists he's got no idea where the girl's wanted father is hiding.

Police investigating the suspicious disappearance of Brisbane father Brett Orme say they are following several leads and will expand their search area.

Brett Orme's car has since been found, 45 minutes away from where he was last seen.

'From the moment the boat went under until the time we were reunited on Pinang Island, uncertainty was the only certainty'

News that four Australians and two Indonesian crew members have been found alive after going missing on Sunday from a boat trip off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia has made headlines around the world.

Four Aussies went missing while celebrating a 30th in Indonesia as their families were left waiting for news.

Desperate search continues for Yanfei Bao, who vanished not long after sending a message to a friend on Chinese social media app WeChat.

Curious about her family history, Donna Truscott took a test, ticking a small and crucial box when submitting her DNA.

Western Australia Police said the 17-year-old and five-week-old baby have been found safe and sound.

The woman has been identified as Tanya Lee Glover and police believe she was killed in 2009 or 2010.

The remains have not yet been formally identified, police said, but they are believed to belong to Hamka.

But the development came too late for Mari who was tragically killed by another of her daughters, who stabbed her "hundreds of times".

On Friday, December 10, 1965, a man was found dead in the shared bathroom of a North Sydney hotel.

Brittney Inwood-Hamilton, 26, and her two young kids, Noah, six, and Ruby, four, were last seen leaving a home at 8am yesterday.

Charlee Castle, 13, was last seen at her home on Murrabin Avenue, Matraville, at about 11pm on Wednesday, July 26.

Christopher Mark Jordan, 36, has appeared in court after human remains were found on a bush track on Wednesday.