Hello Australia!! - Mexico catches an elusive fugitive Drug Lord - Cologne's police chief gets the boot for the New Year Eve sex assaults - Crews begin tearing down a hospital while patients were still being treated inside - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Mexican authorities recaptured Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the drug lord who escaped from the country's most-secure prison via a tunnel drilled from the outside to his jail cell.  Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted, "Mission accomplished: We got him", and said the arrest was a "victory against impunity" that should help restore Mexicans' confidence in their justice system.  Marines captured El Chapo after a brief shootout in Los Mochis, a coastal city in his home state of Sinaloa.  The latest image of El Chapo shows him being escorted into an airplane, but it is not clear where he was taken.

The police chief of Cologne, Germany Wolfgang Albers is being pushed into early retirement after the New Year's Eve security debacle that saw more than 120 women complain of sex harassment and worse outside the city's main train station.  Officials say it is necessary to restore public trust in police.  Cologne cops failed to prevent dozens of women from being robbed and molested by groups of men gathered at the city's central station.  Mr. Albers was specifically singled out for not informing the public about the attacks and withholding the countries of origin of the suspects.  Federal authorities identified 18 asylum-seekers among 31 suspects linked to the NYE crimes in Cologne.

Belgian prosecutors believe they found an apartment used as a bomb factory by the terrorists in the 13 November attacks in Paris.  Investigators found traces of explosives, and a fingerprint left by fugitive Salah Abdeslam in the unit in Schaerbeek district of Brussels.  The person who rented it under a false name is in custody, but Abdeslam is still on the lam.

Islamic State is claiming responsibility for the bombing at a police training facility in Libya that killed at least 65 people.  This attack in the western city of Zliten is the deadliest since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi.

Israeli cops shot and killed the man suspected of killing two people in a shooting at a Tel Aviv cafe on 1 January.  That 31-year old Israeli Arab Nasat Melhem was able to elude cops for a week caused a great deal of concern among Israelis who are accustomed to police wrapping up these sorts of cases within days, if not hours.

US officials would very much like Havana to return a Hellfire missile that was accidentally shipped to Cuba in 2014.  The unarmed device was apparently first sent to Spain to be part of a NATO training mission, but for some reason wound up on an Air France flight to the Caribbean nation.  The Hellfire is a laser-guided missile that can be deployed from an attack helicopter or an unmanned drone, and officials are concerned that Cuba could reverse-engineer its inner workings and share or sell the information to Russia, China, or even North Korea.

¿Quien es macho?  El presidente Ruso, Vladimir Putin, es muy macho.

Doctors were treating patients when men in camouflage uniforms showed up and started to bulldoze a hospital in Zhengzhou University in Henan province.  Patients were sent fleeing, and hospital workers were reportedly injured when they tried to stop the ill-timed destruction, which buried six bodies in the hospital morgue under the rubble and caused at least US$600,000 damage to equipment.  The hospital sat on land that was earmarked for a road project.  Land confiscation and forced demolitions are a sore spot in China, and the case has caused widespread outrage.

Faster than it went up, a giant gold-painted statue of the late Chinese Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong came down.  The People's Daily said the statue in Henan Province's Zhushigang village was not properly registered and approved.  Local businessmen and villagers paid for the statue.  Despite being responsible for the deaths of millions, Chairman Mao is still revered in China, especially in the countryside.  Current Chinese President Xi Jinping considers Mao to be a "great figure" who "made mistakes".