SpongeBob Kidnappers Seek Ransom for Doll
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Gwen Deforte unwinds the line connected to the hand of Spongebob Squarepants as the baloon is prepared for its&#39; first Macy&#39;s Parade in New York Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004.
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A seven-year-old Lebanese boy has been kidnapped on his way home from school in Iraq by militants demanding a $US150,000 ($A203,693) ransom for his release, Lebanese officials said today.
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The parents of a four-year-old British  girl snatched from a Portuguese holiday resort three weeks ago  hope to meet Pope Benedict later this week, a spokesman for the  family said on Sunday.
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The Lebanese Embassy in Baghdad is working with Iraqis to secure the release of a 7-year-old Lebanese boy taken by kidnappers demanding $150,000, Foreign Ministry officials said Monday.
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Unidentified kidnappers are demanding a $25-million ransom for a Turkish shipping magnate they abducted in Iraq. That&#39;s according to a Turkish television channel, which aired video footage
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - A gang in Somalia has demanded a ransom for two foreign aid workers who were kidnapped this week, the president of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Sunday.
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Gunmen holding a three-year-old British girl hostage in the Niger Delta make a ransom demand, her mother says.
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A holiday drive leads to a frantic rescue mission.
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A kidnapped 14-year-old girl texts her mother from her keeper's cell phone. Authorities rescue her, using the message to help target their search area.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped United Nations workers, including a British woman, are demanding the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly held at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostagesâ lives.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - The Nigerian kidnappers of a three-year-old British girl have demanded money and negotiations to secure her release are about to start, the girl's mother told Reuters on Friday.
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Kidnappers have abducted a Turkish shipping magnate and three others in southern Iraq and demanded a &#36;25 million ransom, the Turkish private NTV television channel said Saturday.
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WINDLEY KEY, Fla. - A dolphin's toy that resembled a bomb scared spectators Wednesday and prompted officials at a marine park to call 911. A dolphin playing in a tank at Theater of the Sea surfaced with several items, including one that looked like a homemade bomb.
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A convicted sex offender wanted for allegedly kidnapping an 11-year-old boy from his school in Florida was arrested Sunday, two days after the boy was found safe.
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SPRING HILL, Tennessee - Town officials have restored a woman's business license weeks after accusing her of trying to sell a sex toy - a vibrating yellow-ducky sponge - at a flea market.
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International aid organisation CARE is trying to secure the release of its Iraq director who was kidnapped in Baghdad early yesterday morning.
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Detectives in the US have arrested a 12-year-old girl and her 10-year-old sister for allegedly abducting their neighbour's one-year-old son and demanding a $200,000 (Â£100,000) ransom.