Abu Sayyaf pocketed at least 353 million pesos ($7.3 million) from ransom kidnappings in the first six months of the year .

Two powerful Shiite militias are top suspects in the abduction of three Americans last weekend in a southern neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, an Iraqi police commander and a Western security official in Baghdad said Thursday.

WINNIPEG - It was the question on everyone's mind when 12-year-old Tristan McMahon was allegedly abducted by his biological mother Charlotte McMahon on Saturday morning . Why was no AMBER alert issued? The young boy had been on an overnight supervised visitation with his mother Friday night. When his father and stepmom contacted the boy's grandmother in the morning, they were told both of them were gone.