A US cop shoots dead an unarmed black teen and apparently there will be no accountability – China on the other hand acts swiftly to punish officials after the deadly New Year’s stampede in Shanghai – A stabbing spree is partially caught on video – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

US federal prosecutors are expected to recommend filing no civil rights charges against the Saint Louis, Missouri-area police officer that shot and killed an unarmed black teen during a jaywalking stop last August.  It’d be a second gross disappointment for the family of 18-year old Michael Brown, two months after local authorities refused to indict the cop in a questionable investigation.  The killing and perception of a miscarriage of justice set off weeks of civil disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri and across the country.

Luxury apartment complex near New York City burns to ashes.  You don’t see that every day.

China has punished 11 Shanghai officials after the deadly stampede on New Year’s Eve at the famous Bund waterfront area.  Families demanded action after 36 people died and dozens more were injured.  The local Communist Party leader, as well as the district chief, police chief, and deputy police chief were stripped of their party posts and fired.  Several other officials and police officers were disciplined. 

Chilling security video has emerged showing a man on a stabbing rampage in Tel Aviv.  It shows the attacker after he attacked several people on a bus, running up behind a woman and plunging a knife into her back.  Cops later shot him in the leg.  The attacker is a Palestinian man in his early 20s from the West Bank.

The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is backing street protests against president Joseph Kabila, who trying to manipulate the law to extend his rule.  He is constitutionally barred from running for another term in next year’s elections.  The Catholic Church – the country’s largest denomination – shut its schools and urged people to take part in peaceful protests.  But not all of the demonstrations have been peaceful, and several buildings and vehicles have been burned in days of unrest.

Bangladesh has arrested more than 7,000 opposition activists in the past two weeks.  Authorities are struggling to deal with unrest that has claimed at least 29 lives, and led to blockaded roads and bombed cars.  The opposition called for the protests on the anniversary of last year’s elections, which it lost but claims were unfair.

Sri Lanka’s new government has rehabilitated war-time army chief Sarath Fonseka, reinstated him as a General, and restored his right to vote and stand in elections.  Fonseka was punished by the previous administration for saying Sri Lanka must cooperate with international war crimes investigations into the country’s crushing of the Tamil opposition.  Fonseka led some of those anti-Tamil operations, noted for their high civilian casualties. 

Bolivian President Evo Morales was sworn into a third term in a ceremony heavy on indigenous dress and staging.

The ex-wife of an Argentine prosecutor found dead in his locked apartment believes he didn’t commit suicide.  Alberto Nisman was found with a gun and spent bullet casing next to him, days before he was to produce real evidence to back up his accusations that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) interfered with a terrorism investigation in order to secure an oil deal with Iran.  The government is dismissing accusations of a conspiracy as ludicrous.  Nisman’s former wife Judge Sandra Arroyo isn’t pushing conspiracy theories, but made it clear she doesn’t believe it was a suicide.

Mexico’s Colima Volcano erupted with a column of ash and gas more than 4,000 meters in the air on Wednesday.

US Conservatives have seriously breached protocol, and gone behind President Barack Obama’s back to invite a foreign head of state to address congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  It’s not the first time that Bibi has meddled in American politics, he also tacitly endorsed Obama’s opponent in the 2012 Presidential election.  Although the republican party skullduggery is widely seen as a dig at President Obama, it’s also a stunt to support their fellow conservative Netanyahu before Israel’s elections – displaying their preferred candidate as someone with international gravitas.

Guy on a paddleboard off Southern California gets a close encounter with some Orcas.