Two Australians die in a wreck in New Zealand  – Boko Haram is suspected of slaughtering worshippers at a Nigeria mosque – Protesters seek justice on “Black Friday” – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A teacher and a student from a Queensland school are dead after the van they were riding in crashed in northern New Zealand.  This happened on Friday south of Rotorua near the Tongariro Crossing, the van colliding with a milk truck.  16-year old Gabriel Runge and 36-year old Andre Vogel from the Noosa Pengari Steiner School on the Sunshine Coast were killed.  Another teen is in critical condition, a woman in her 40s is in serious condition, and five more teens are recovering from less serious injuries.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is condemning the deadly attack on the central mosque in the northern city of Kano.  The death toll is skyrocketing – at least 120 people have been killed and officials conservatively estimate dozens, if not hundreds, more are wounded.  Two suicide bombers detonated explosives during Friday prayers, and other attackers opened fire on the crowd with automatic weapons.  At the same mosque a few weeks ago, the Emir of Kano urged people to arm themselves in defense against the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.

Sri Lankan police arrested 37 nationals turned back by Australia after they tried to get here by boat to seek asylum.  Palaniappan Kumarasamy from the Australian Tamil Congress warns they may be imprisoned and tortured, especially if they are Tamil will links to the old separatist movement.  Labor leader Bill Shorten is blasting the Abbott government for secrecy because news of this turn back wasn’t announced until after the would-be immigrants became prisoners.

Police in Austin, Texas have removed evidence from the home of a man who fired hundreds of shots into a federal courthouse and the Mexican consulate in the capital of Texas.  49-year old Larry McQuilliams apparently also tried to set fire to the Consulate, before police shot him dead.  Police hinted that he had anti-government, anti-immigrant views.  Neighbors said he seemed kind of “angry”.  No foolin’, Tex.

Protesters in Saint Louis, Missouri temporary shut down two major shopping malls on “Black Friday”, to stage mass “die-in” demonstrations as well as observe minutes of silence.  This was in protest of the killing of black teenager Michael Brown by a white cop who wasn’t charged with the crime.  Shopping was also disrupted in centers in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and other cities.  Although the protests probably didn’t make a giant mark on the economy, they coincided with other boycotts of the vulgar consumerism and occasional violence of duped consumers on the official first day of shopping in the retail sector’s holiday season.

Protesters in Mexico set fire to an educational building in southern Guerrero state, demanding justice for the 43 student teachers kidnapped by police in Iguala town and handed over to a drug gang which presumably murdered them.

Pope Francis is in Turkey to urge interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

Authorities are releasing details of a riot at the David Viloria prison in western Venezuela earlier this week.  More than a hundred inmates of the overcrowded prison stormed the infirmary and pharmacy.  At least 35 inmates immediately gave themselves fatal overdoses; and of 100 or so still being treated for massive intoxication, 20 are still in comas.  Prisoner rights activists are skeptical of the official version, and say it’s unlikely the prisoners chose mass suicide to protest conditions.

Japan’s biggest newspaper, the conservative Yomiuri Shimbun, issued a (dubious) apology for using the term “sex slaves” to refer to Asian women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II, in articles dating back to 1992.  The paper says that the term suggests that that “coercion by the Japanese government or the army was an objective fact”.  Actually, it is – but the conservative government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other right-wingers have been trying to rewrite history and say the women weren’t forced (they were). 

Hey, everyone loves a good volcano.  Mount Aso in southwestern Japan is burping up gas, ash, and rocks.

Soccer great Pele released a statement saying he is recovering from a urinary tract infection.

French President Francois Hollande is warning against international isolation of the three countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola Outbreak – Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.  Hollande traveled to Guinea’s capital Conakry, was greeted by President Alpha Conde, and later visited health workers battling the outbreak at a hospital.  The epidemic has killed more than 5,600 people, mostly in the aforementioned countries.