North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to lift living standards as he opened a landmark congress, state media said Friday, offering a glimpse of economic strains within the sanctions-hit nation.
In a very strange end to the week, former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's son, Bellarmine Mugabe was arrested in the family's Hyde Park home in Johannesburg on Thursday.
The immediate priority now remains on the intensive 24-hour rescue operation aimed at locating and bringing to safety the five mine employees who are still unaccounted for.