Tuna Salad cannot rebuild a nation after a disaster – William and Kate introduce their new daughter to the world – The World Cup was last year and Brazil still hasn’t finished the stadiums – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

About 60 people in Sydney’s west woke up in emergency accommodations this morning, after they were evacuated from their apartments because of a sinkhole that is threatening to bring down three buildings.  Police said heavy rain since Thursday cause “excessive soil erosion and affected the structural integrity of the site” in Harris Park.  A day earlier, five people drowned when their cars were swept away by flooding in Queensland.

A mere ten hours after she was born, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge revealed their daughter to the world, smiling for the gathered media at the entrance to St. Mary’s Hospital in London.  Then they hopped in a SUV to take her home to Kensington Palace.  The princess is fourth in line to the British throne.  She was born at 8:34 AM local time on Saturday morning, and weighed in at eight pounds, three ounces, or 3.7 kilograms.

The United Nations is asking Nepal to ease its customs controls in order to get aid and relief supplies into the earthquake-ravaged country more easily.  In fact, UN humanitarian aid chief Valerie Amos said Nepal already signed an agreement to that effect in 2007.  But the Nepalese government says it is combing through shipments coming through Kathmandu airport because of shipments of unnecessary items. Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat said, “We have received things like tuna fish and mayonnaise.  What good are those things for us?  We need grains, salt and sugar.”

Don’t send Tuna Salad to Nepal.  Instead, donate to help Nepal through these links:  UNICEF – The World Food Program – The Australian Red Cross – OXFAM Australia – Medicins Sans Frontieres Australia (Doctors Without Borders) – also, Charity Navigator helps you pick charities that are open and accountable. 

Nepal officials are ruling out any more miracle rescues of survivors in the mounds of rubble following last month’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake.  The death toll has climbed to at least 6,841, with more than 14,000 injured.

Islamic State militants killed 300 to 600 Yazidi captives in a prison camp at Tal Afar west of Mosul, Iraq.  That’s according to Yazidi and Iraqi officials – the latter whom described the killings as “horrific and barbaric”.  The religious minority Yazidi sect is wrongly considered by fundamentalist Muslims to be devil worshippers.

In Afghanistan, the trial began for 49 men accused of murdering a woman wrongly accused of burning a Koran.  It was last month that a 28-year-old woman named Farkhunda argued with a Muslim cleric over supposed lucky charms he sold to women, when he accused her of the sacrilege, setting the mob against her.  Among the accused are 19 police officers charged with failing to prevent the attack.

Thai police have found the shallow graves of some 30 people in a jungle camp in the south.  It’s believed the bodies are those of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh trying to get to Malaysia.  It’s clear they are the victims of human trafficking, although the causes of death remain tp be determined.

Burundi is promising to crack down on a wave of protests, accusing opposition groups of providing a cover for a “terrorist enterprise”.  The extremely impoverished African country is going through a political crisis as protesters vow to keep up the pressure until President Pierre Nkurunziza gives up his campaign to seek a third term – something they say violates previous agreements that ended a civil war in 2005.

Remember those twelve soccer stadiums that Brazil was building for the World Cup?  Ten months after the games concluded, some of them are almost ready.  While some are nearing completion, others are already for sale.  Brazil spent about US$3 billion on the World Cup stadiums – most were turned over to private operators who can’t make a profit from soccer, and are resorting to children’s events, corporate gatherings, and religious services to increase revenue.