Air France pilots end their strike without a clear victory – A UK minister loses his job in a sex sting – A virus that causes a painful illness strikes a major tourism destination – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Air France pilots are ending their two-week strike which hobbled the airline, doing so “in the interest of passengers and the company.”  But the pilot’s union is still yet to reach an agreement with Air France-KLM, and hasn’t formally accepted management’s plans to expand a low-cost subsidiary called Transavia.  The company says full service is unlikely to be restored before the middle of the week.

An Afghani-Australian visiting his relatives was pulled off of a bus by Taliban gunmen, tortured, and murdered.  56-year old Sayed Habib Musawi was the only person on the bus targeted by the terrorists in last week’s incident, and local officials say it was because Musawi had Australian citizenship. 

American drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal northwest killed at least four suspected Islamist militants.  The US isn’t saying much about their identities, other than two of the men were citizens of Arab nations.  It’s the second US drone strike in a week – an attack last Wednesday is believed to have killed ten militants.

A Mexican politician was shot dead at a hotel restaurant in the popular resort city of Acapulco.  Three gunmen shot 35-year old Braulio Zaragoza in the back several times as he dined with other lawmakers.  Police are investigating.  Drug cartels have targeted several other politicians in the region.

It’s been a bad few days for the British Conservative Party:  The Tories lost two ministers.  Mark Reckless defected to the ultra-conservative UKIP party just before the Conservative Conference.  That triggered a by-election in which Reckless will run as UKIP.  Tory officials call it a “betrayal” from someone who “lied, lied, and lied again”.  Strangely, no one said he was reckless.

The other Tory loss is much more hilarious:  Cabinet Office minister Brooks Newmark resigned after sending explicit photos of his pale, paunchy, 56-year old self to someone he thought was a “20-something Tory PR girl”.  Except that the recipient was a male freelance reporter for one of the tabloids (hee hee hee hee hee).  Newmark says he needs to spend time with his family, although it's not clear if they want to spend time with him.

At least eight people are dead in a magnitude-4.9 earthquake in a remote Andean village in Peru.  That’s not a very powerful temblor, but it struck a poor indigenous area where the houses were constructed of adobe and stone.  45 buildings collapsed, 70 more were heavily damaged.  President Ollanta Humala says the government will help the Quechua people rebuild.

Jamaica is acknowledging that the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus is a problem.  In a nationally-broadcast address Health Minister Fenton Ferguson said, “everyone is susceptible,” and urged employers and schools to be compassionate help people through the tough times.  Chikungunya has no vaccine and no cure.  It’s rarely painful but caused intense pain in the joints and bones.