Journalist's kidnappers demand convert's return

The kidnappers of an Italian journalist in Afghanistan have offered to free him in exchange for a Christian convert who fled the country, an aid agency says. London-based photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was seized while travelling in southern Afghanistan. The kidnappers say they will release Torsello - a Muslim convert - if Abdul Rahman returns from Italy where he was offered asylum earlier this year to escape a possible death sentence for becoming a Christian. The kidnappers' demand was made in a phone call to the head of security at a hospital run by an Italian aid agency. (Via BBC News)