1.   Police said he was trying to fake an abduction as part of a plan to disentangle himself from financial troubles.

2.   A controversial television journalist missing for three months was freed by former Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines early Saturday and denied she had faked her abduction.

3.   Moshe Karadi, police chief in the Ashkelon area, said Schwartz admitted faking the abduction after police confronted him with evidence contradicting his testimony.

4.   A Belgian prosecutor said Monday that he had not yet concluded whether Syrian dissident journalist Nizar Nayyouf faked his abduction late last month.