North Korea believed to earn a fortune from forced labor overseas, U.N. says

North Korea's catalog of abuses against its own people within the secretive country's tightly controlled borders has been widely reported. But Kim Jong Un's regime is also believed to be pocketing huge sums from tens of thousands of its citizens who are sent abroad to toil in forced labor conditions, the United Nations says.

The laborers are made to work as long as 20 hours a day without enough food and under constant surveillance, according to a new report from Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea.

Syria : Kurdish forces dig in just outside ISIS headquarters in Raqqa

When Bahoz heard the blasts, he guessed they must have come from French jets. There were 14 of them, all around the time thatPresident Francois Hollande said France had started bombing Raqqa.

The capital of ISIS's self-declared caliphate is eerily close to Bahoz's position. A fighter with the Kurdish YPG units, he sits on a series of outposts along a lengthy earth trench that is essentially the front line with Raqqa -- about 20 miles away, across flat, hostile ground.

"Three days ago we saw 14 airstrikes suddenly hit just nearby, and then the French said they'd started bombing," he told CNN, when we were given rare access to his position near the town of Ayn al Issa.

"We will do our best to avenge Paris," he vowed.

Drunk Russian sailor crashes 7,000-ton ship into Scotland -- at full speed

What shall we do with a drunken sailor?

Don't put him in charge of a 7,000-ton, 423-foot (129-meter) cargo ship, for starters.

That's how a Russian mariner who drank half a liter of rum before work, according to investigators, managed to crash into the coast of Scotland last winter -- at full speed.

The Lysblink Seaways was on its way from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Skogn in Norway when it slammed into the rocky shoreline near Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula at about 2:30 a.m. on February 18.

When the ship was salvaged, it was so badly damaged that it had to be scrapped.

Pfizer, Allergan combining in $160 billion deal

Pfizer and Allergan will join in a $160 billion deal to create the world’s largest drugmaker.

The transaction is valued at $363.63 per Allergan share. Allergan shareholders will receive 11.3 shares of the combined company for each of their shares. Pfizer stockholders get one share of the combined company for each of theirs.

Belgian police asked people not to share information about anti-terror raids so they started posting cat photos

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A request by Belgium police for members of the public not to share information of anti-terrorism raids on social media, prompted an inventive response from Twitter users. As the Belgian capital remains in lockdown while raids continue, the hashtag #BrusselsLockdownbegan trending.

However, the images posted were not of the deserted city streets with police cordons, but of cats. The hilarious response demonstrated the good humour of the Belgium people even in times of crisis, as they endeavoured, in the most imaginative way possible, to support the police services.

The images of cute kittens countered the images of violence and gunman that usually accompany anti-terror raids. Commentators acknowledged the witty response. "#Catstorm on #BrusselsLockdown = the best of human nature responding to the worst of human nature. Hope all are safe," wrote one Twitter user poignantly.

Cops release photo of THIRD suicide bomber behind Stade de France blasts

Bomber: French cops want help in identifying the man

French police have released this picture of the third suicide bomber who took part in the attack on the Stade de France last Friday night.

Cops have published the image in the hope the public can help identify him.

The French National Police posted a photo of the man on Twitter this evening.

The picture reportedly shows a man known as M al-Mahmod, according to the BBC.

He is believed to have entered the Greek island of Leros with another terrorist travelling under the name of Ahmad al-Mohammad.

The man was one of three people killed in attacks at the stadium.

The bombers had tried to get into the Stade de France during the international friendly match between France and Germany, but were blocked at the turnstyles.

Europe's most wanted man Salah Abdeslam slips the net as Belgian police arrest 16 in terror raids

Europe's most wanted man has evaded capture once again after heavily-armed police officers launched raids across Brussels and arresting 16 people.

Salah Abdeslam was not arrested by police in Belgium during 19 raids linked to an "imminent" threat to the European nation from suspected Islamist fanatics.

At a press conference this at around 11.30pm UK time on Sunday, Belgian prosecutors revealed one suspect drove towards police after being spotted.

Officers dodged the car but were forced to fire shots at it and then arrested the person inside.