Good Morning, Australia! – A shoot out with crossdressers at the gates of America’s most secretive spy agency – More pieces of a very damning puzzle in the Germanwings 9525 crash – Video captures a Rhino on the loose in an Asian city – Jon Stewart’s replacement on The Daily Show is announced – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 was treated for suicidal tendencies some years ago. Duesseldorf prosecutors say 27-year old Andreas Lubitz had received psychotherapy “with a note about suicidal tendencies” for several years before becoming a pilot. But in the following years, Lubitz continued to visit the doctors “without any suicidal tendencies or aggression against others being recorded.” French investigators believe that Lubitz locked the pilot out of the cabin and deliberately crashed the Airbus A320, killing all 150 people on board including two Australians.
Two men in a vehicle tried to ram the security gate at the US National Security Administration (NSA) – guards opened fire, killing one and injuring the other. Broadcast reports said a guard got into an “altercation” with two men who were trying to enter the facility dressed as women. NSA police shot one of the men dead and seriously injured the other. Authorities reportedly found gun and drugs in the vehicle.
A church van carrying impoverished farm workers crashed into a canal in rural southwest Florida, killing eight people and injuring ten. Investigators say the van from the Independent Haitian Assembly of God Church blew a stop sign on the dark highway and nosedived down a steep embankment.
A bus driver in eastern India lost control on a sharp turn, crashing the vehicle down a gorge. Eleven passengers were killed and 26 injured. India has the world's deadliest roads, with more than 110,000 people killed annually.
The death toll from flooding in Chile’s northern Atacama region has risen to 14 people, as the clean-up begins. 20 people are still missing. Last week’s rain was the heaviest in eight decades – More than 4,500 people are in shelters, and entire towns are without potable water.
Nigeria’s election body has put off announcing results from the weekend elections until Tuesday. The US and UK issued a joint statement expressing concern over the shadow of “political interference” clouding the vote count. The election was marred by Boko Haram attacks in the north, allegations of political violence in the south, and technical glitches that kept people from voting and forced judges to extend the ballot from one to two days.
Lions were thought to be extinct in the West Central African nation of Gabon, because of poaching. But hidden cameras set up in the Bateke Plateau National Park for the first time in 20 years captured images of big cats roaming at night. The cameras were intended to observe the behavior of chimpanzees, but now we know what the chimps were doing: Avoiding the Lions!
In Hetauda city, Nepal, a Rhinoceros left the local nature preserve and charged into the center of town. The beast gored a 61-year-old woman and at least eleven more people were hurt in the chaos. Apparently, everyone in Nepal has a mobile video, so we have lots of pictures.
The US network Comedy Central is naming comedian Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart as host of “The Daily Show”. The 31-year old biracial South African has only appeared on the show three times; his first, skewering American police violence, saying: “I never thought I'd be more afraid of police in America than in South Africa.” Jon Stewart approves: “I’m thrilled for the show and for Trevor,” said Stewart in a statement, “He’s a tremendous comic and talent that we've loved working with.”