SEAFOOD FROM SLAVES-ARREST — The Thai captain of a seized cargo ship carrying an estimated $2 million worth of seafood has been arrested in Indonesia on suspicion of illegal fishing, in the latest development linked to an Associated Press investigation that uncovered a slave island earlier this year. 

DALAI LAMA — The Dalai Lama canceled his U.S. appearances for the month of October after doctors at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic advised him to rest. 

INDIA-NKOREA — It's not the most obvious international friendship, but ties are warming between New Delhi and Pyongyang, with mineral-hungry India looking to boost trade while North Korea, facing sometimes-rocky relations with China, searches for new friends. 

CHINA-UN-TIMELINE — With China's President Xi Jinping poised to address the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, a timeline of key events in China's long, convoluted relationship with the world body.

NEW ZEALAND-KIM DOTCOM — Prosecutors say Kim Dotcom and his colleagues sometimes reveled in their role as "modern-day pirates," discussed how to thwart the justice system, and joked that a judge would one day realize how "evil" they were. The much-delayed extradition hearing for Doctom and three others who owned or helped run the website Megaupload began in Auckland this week in a case that could have broader implications for Internet copyright rules.