One of the pirates holding a tank-laden vessel off the coast of Somalia said Tuesday the ransom for the release of the ship is now $8 million from a high of $20 million.

The pirate, who identified himself as Jama Aden, revealed the lower ransom offered to the owner of the MV Faina in a telephone interview with AP. The man answered the phone of the pirates' spokesman Sugule Ali, who was not available.

New testimony identifying the Boston father-kidnapper with multiple personalities as a German exchange student in 1980 left investigators sure of only one thing about him: he is not Clark Rockefeller.

"We're already familiar with multiple aliases. If there's one thing we're certain about this suspect, it's that his true name is not Clark Rockefeller," Jake Wark, press secretary for the Suffolk District Attorney in Massachusetts, told FOXNews.com Thursday.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has found an Internet phone call center at fault for misdirecting an ambulance in a 911 call that caused a baby's death.

With the CRTC investigation of Melvin and Khadija Luck's complaint finding that Comwave's 911 call center agent failed to confirm the new address of the family's home in Calgary, the couple plans to sue the company for damages.

According to the findings of a new survey, most Americans are open to other forms of religion. A majority of them said that religion forms an important part of their life while others believed the way to salvation can assume different forms.

The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey was carried out by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and revealed a spirit of tolerance among majority of Americans.

Technology is displacing the telephone directory from American households. Environmentalists and households, among others, are now questioning the wisdom of printing 2,000 pages of phone numbers hardly touched by consumers who prefer speed dialing features of their mobile units or Internet search engines to find a contact number.

A number of apartment buildings in South Boston reported 2008 editions of newly delivered phone books remain untouched in foyers.