A witness confirms the riot at Manus Island, but with unexpected participants – You won’t believe the video of what Russian Cossacks did in Sochi – A survivor tells what it’s like to be lost at sea without a boat – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Papua New Guinea locals with machetes and knives attacked asylum seekers in the Manus Island detention facility – That’s the allegation from the camp interpreter employed by the Australian Immigration Department.  Azita Bokan confirms the reports of a violent riot, and says the PNG locals were employed by the private guards from the G4S multinational security company.  Asylum seekers were forced to use plastic chairs as shields, explaining that now famous video.  At least one asylum seeker was killed and several more were severely injured. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison had earlier said he had no verification of the riot.

Russian Cossacks attacked the punk band Pussy Riot with whips as the women attempted to make a new video at the port in Sochi, they weren’t even at the Olympics.  Band members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova as well as journalists were attacked and shoved around by the Cossacks, who act as security forces.  The name of their new song is “Putin teaches us to love our motherland”.  Well.. Cossacks are pretty damned cowardly.

Hopes are fading for the last of the seven Japanese divers who were lost after a sudden outburst of violent weather disrupted their dive off of Bali.  Five were rescued, one was found dead.  Survivor Saori Furukawa says the sea spun “like a washing machine” and they were carried 20 kilometers away, surviving for days by clinging on to rocks and coral reefs, and drinking from passing coconuts.

Two former US Navy SEALs were found dead aboard the Maersk Alabama container ship, moored at Port Victoria in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean.  The men were part of a contingent of security officers on board to protect the vessel.  The Maersk Alabama became famous in 2009 when pirates attacked and took the captain hostage – the events became the plot of last year’s hit movie “Captain Phillips”.

Your Frosties are going to come with a conscience.  US Food giant Kellogg’s says that by the end of 2015, it will buy palm oil only from suppliers who can prove that they actively protect rainforests and peatlands and respect human rights.  That means “no more deforestation on Borneo, thank you very much”.  Or in Malaysia, New Guinea, Latin America, nor West Africa.  At least 30,000 square miles of tropical forest has been cut down in the past 20 years to supply the burgeoning global food industry with cheap palm oil to make packaged foods, ice cream and snacks.

Gratuitous baby orangutan.

Tourists came to Greece’s aid.  Greece's tourism industry slashed prices, attracting free spending foreigners, and the central bank reports the country’s current account posted its first surplus since 1948.  Matters were also helped by debt relief provided by Greece's lenders, which slashed interest payments by half to about 6 billion euros in 2013.

Malala Yousafzai is asking the world not to forget about Syria’s children.  She visited kids displaced by the Syrian Civil War crossing the desert and and living in a refugee camp in Jordan, hoping to raise money for their education.  Schools are non-existent in these refugee camps.  The globe-trotting 16-year old children’s rights activist also said the US President Barack Obama should visit one of the refugee camps to see the “suffering” for himself. 

That Star Trek cloaking device just got a little closer.  And maybe James Bond’s invisible car, too.  Scientists at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University have developed a way to render an object invisible by using prisms to bend the light around it.  Pretty Cool.