23 October 2007: Smelly Kidappee

Kidnappers are active in Columbia, where more than 3,000 people are currently being held captive, mostly by anti-government guerrillas.

But the group who kidnapped Aldo de Fescol only held him for two days and then dropped him off at a veterinarian's office, saying he needed a bath. Aldo is a German Shepherd dog.

When nobody came to collect the newly sweet-smelling canine the vet called the police who identified the dog. He had been kidnapped - or maybe that's dognapped - last month from his home in a rich Bogota neighbourhood while his owners were away.