Could Australia have gotten into the fight against Ebola two weeks earlier? – Mexicans are getting fed up with a lack of answers in the missing students case – A ruling against overwork in the world capital of working too much – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Abbott government is defending its ignoring of a guarantee from the European Union to treat any Australians who might get infected with Ebola while fighting the epidemic in western Africa.  It was the concern over treatment that kept the federal government from committing Aussie healthcare workers to the cause until yesterday, when it accepted a deal from the United Kingdom.  The health ministry has not explained why the EU guarantee wasn’t good enough.

US President Barack Obama will ask the “lame duck” congress to approved US$6.2 Billion to fight Ebola in West Africa and protect Americans from the virus in the United States.  It comes after the Republicans made huge gains in the midterm elections, and will take control of both houses of congress when the new session starts in January.  Most of the money would be for an immediate response, but some would be funneled to the Pentagon and some to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Mexico City and other towns to protest against the snail’s pace of investigations into 43 missing student teachers.  It’s been more than five weeks since they were seen being forced into the backs of police vehicles in the southern town of Iguala.  The mayor and his wife, as well as several police officials and drug gang members have been arrested.  The nationwide demonstration is the latest in a series of protests aimed at putting pressure on the authorities to step up the search for the missing students from a teacher-training college in the town of Ayotzinapa.

Kiwi Prime Minister John Key says there will be no effort to recover the bodies of 29 miners killed in the Pike River coal mine four years ago.  That’s when a methane explosion ripped through the shaft, and only two walked out.  Key says the state-owned Solid Energy examined different plans to try and retrieve the 29, but the shaft is still too dangerous.  The families of the 29 want the government to turn the site into a memorial and a health and safety training area.

The second-hand, Soviet-era rocket engine is to blame for the failure of the unmanned Antares supply rocket, which blew up six seconds after leaving the launch pad in Virginia on 28 October.  No one was hurt, but it was a black eye for the privatization of US space operations.  The contractor Orbital Sciences says it will no longer use the old Soviet rocket engines, which were designed for unrealized Moon missions in the 1960s and ‘70s.

French police arrested two women and a man in their 20s in connection with a series of mysterious drone flights of over nuclear reactors.  There’ve been 15 sightings of small aircraft over the reactors since October, prompting concerns over security.  The suspects were in possession of a drone aircraft – which isn’t illegal, unlike invading the airspace above a nuke.

Tokyo’s district court is ordering a chain of Steakhouses to pay A$580,000 compensation to the family of a man who killed himself because of overwork – an all-too-familiar phenomenon in Japan known as “Karojisatsu”.  The unidentified 24-year old was putting in 190 hours of overtime every month before taking his own life in November 2010.  It’s rare for the Japanese courts to acknowledge negligence or culpability on the part of employers.  The family hopes this will be a landmark ruling against Japan’s notorious workaholic culture, which often leads to physical and mental illness among overworked employees.