A Korean-American tour operator jailed in North Korea had smuggled in anti-Pyongyang materials and sought to establish a base to overthrow the regime, according to the North's Supreme Court. Detailing for the first time some of the charges against Kenneth Bae, who was sentenced to 15 years hard labour at the end of last month, a court spokesman painted him as a militant Christian evangelist.

Royal Bank of Scotland returned to profit in the first quarter with net earnings of £393 million ($610 million, 467 million euros) after a hefty loss a year earlier, the state-rescued lender said Friday. RBS said its profit after tax for the January-March period compared with a net loss of £1.545 billion in the first quarter of 2012 -- when the value of the bank's outstanding debt had significantly increased. "These results show pleasing progress in delivering a strong and valuable RBS for all our stakeholders," the bank's chief executive Stephen Hester said in a statement.

A British special forces sniper was told Wednesday he will face a retrial after he was briefly jailed for possessing a gun given to him as a gift by Iraqi troops he helped to train. Sergeant Danny Nightingale, 38, a veteran of the conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Northern Ireland, was sentenced to 18 months in military detention last November but freed three weeks later when judges suspended his sentence.

Anti-war campaigners opposed to Britain's use of armed drones in Afghanistan on Saturday marched on a military base that this week began hosting the aircraft's human operators for the first time. Royal Air Force (RAF) pilots had been operating Reaper aircraft to support British troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan remotely from a base in Nevada in the United States. But this week the operations were relocated to Britain for the first time, to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire in eastern England, the Ministry of Defence said.