World Powers To Address Alleged Atrocities In North Korea

 The United Nations Security Council will meet next week on human rights in North Korea, which has been accused by a U.N. inquiry of abuses comparable to Nazi-era atrocities, the United States said on Friday.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 2:30 p.m. (1930 GMT), the spokeswoman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Hagar Chemali, said in a statement. She added that senior U.N. officials would brief the council.

The other eight council members who supported the U.S. decision to revive discussions on alleged rights abuses in North Korea are Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Britain, Chemali said on Thursday.

The Security Council last discussed the issue a year ago.

Dozens of gangsters arrested and Kalashnikov machine guns seized after police crash mob NETWORKING PARTY

Mob Boss Ball: Cops make arrests

Billed as the Mob Boss Ball, the event was held in honour of underworld figures specialising in murder, drugs, prostitution, loan-sharking, human trafficking and counterfeiting

At least 53 suspected gangsters were seized when police raided a gathering billed as a criminal networking party.

Billed as the Mob Boss Ball, the event was held in honour of underworld figures specialising in murder, drugs, prostitution, loan-sharking, human trafficking and counterfeiting.

But while the gangsters thought holding a party would be a good way of networking, police had other ideas.

Gangster nicknamed 'Big Timer' led heroin smuggling gang who made millions dealing in 'white gold'

Drugs: Rafiq Mohammed, 38, headed crime gang

A gangster nicknamed ‘Big Timer’ led a drugs cartel which made millions of pounds by importing heroin into the UK from the continent.

To the outside world Rafiq Mohammed, 38, made his living as manager of Rampage Fitness in Bordesley Green.

Yet away from the world of fitness he was flexing his muscles in the criminal underworld by running a gang smuggling huge quantities of heroin into Birmingham, heroin dubbed ‘White Gold’ and believed to have been imported from Spain, the Birmingham Mail reports.

As the money flowed in the crime family boss splashed out on luxury holidays and cars including an Audi Q7 with the registration plate B055 BT - (Boss Big Timer).

And crime was a family business.

A Santeria priest raided a cemetery and took the remains of 5 skeletons

Amador Medina, right, of Hartford, listens to public defender Johanna Canning during his arraignment at Hartford Superior Court Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, in Hartford, Conn. Media was charged as a fugitive from justice after police found the remains of five bodies stolen from a Worcester, Massachusetts cemetery in Medina's Hartford apartment on Friday that he claimed were used for religious purposes. He faces five counts of disinterment of bodies, conspiracy and accessory before the fact in Massachusetts, according to police. (Cloe Poisson/Hartford Courant via AP. Pool

A man described by police as a Santeria priest caught with human remains in his Connecticut home agreed on Monday to go to Massachusetts to face accusations that he stole the five skeletons from a mausoleum.

A Georgia woman is in jail after trying to buy a baby off Craigslist

A woman in suburban Atlanta was in jail on Monday after she sought to purchase a baby for her 14-year-old daughter on Craigslist, Forsyth County detectives said.

Elaine Williams, 47, posted an advertisement on the online shopping site soliciting unwanted babies, and promising mothers that they could drop off the baby in a “baby box,” if they wanted to remain anonymous, police said.

She later told police that her daughter had wanted a baby and would get one with or without her help, authorities said.

Russia appears to have 'gone ballistic' in Syria — and it may be helping ISIS

Russia is showing no signs that it intends to forgive and forget Turkey's decision to down a Russian warplane two weeks ago.

Moscow has chosen to retaliate for the incident asymmetrically, hitting Turkish economic and military interests instead of engaging in a direct conflict with Ankara that might lead to a military confrontation with NATO.

But the Russians appear to have "gone ballistic" in their determination to wipe out Turkish influence in northern Syria and help regime forces reach Aleppo, a UN official told McClatchy on Monday.

LeBron James just signed the biggest endorsement deal in Nike history

Nike has signed LeBron James to a lifetime deal, ESPN's Darren Rovell reports.

The contract is the largest single-athlete deal in Nike's 44-year history. It also marks the first time that Nike has officially given a lifetime deal.

James, who is 30 and entering a new phase of his career, signed a seven-year, $90 million contract with Nike before he was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003. In 2010, James re-signed with Nike and reportedly earned as much as $30 million annually.