A woman just back from Africa shows symptoms similar to Ebola  – Where is Kim Jong-un and who’s in charge in north Korea? – Brazil’s opposition teams up to try and sink Dilma Rousseff – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A 57-year old woman is in hospital in Cairns, being assessed for Ebola.  Sue Ellen Kovack recently returned from a month of volunteering with the Red Cross in Sierra Leone, where she has been working in a hospital treating Ebola victims.  Officials say there’s a “very, very low” risk of anyone else being exposed to Ebola.

Australian fighter jets hit their first Islamic State targets in Iraq, dropping two bombs onto an IS facility.  The RAAF actually went on its first mission over Iraq on Sunday, but pulled out because of concerns over civilian casualties.  The nightly missions tend to be about seven hours long, with two hours flight time each way and two to three hours patrolling for targets.

Despite a series of airstrikes from US forces, Islamic State militants control more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says IS controls as much as one third of the town.  There’ve been reports of IS fighters retreating, but the pentagon acknowledged that airstrikes along will not save Kobani.

Rumors are swirling around North Korea, and the fate of leader Kim Jong-un, who hasn’t been seen in weeks.  With some high ranking officials on a publicity blitz – making a rare move to take questions at the United Nations, arranging human rights talks with the European Union, and taking a high-level trip to South Korea – there are rumors Kim is under house arrest, and North Korea is undergoing regime change.  If so, and face it – it’s the Hermit Kingdom and no one really knows – it would be the first time since the early 1950s North Koreas has been without a Kim at the helm.

The political party of former Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva is throwing its support to the second place finisher, center-right free-marketeer Aecio Neves.  That boosts his chances of beating incumbent President Dilma Rousseff, who finished on top in the first round.  Silva is expected to endorse Neves on Thursday.  The media regards Silva as a popular environmentalist, but in two races for President, she finished with only around 20 percent.  And with millions of protesters last year demanding more government spending on education, healthcare and infrastructure, it remains to be seen how many of Silva’s supporters will back a guy already talking about austerity budgets.

The two-week Air France-KLM pilot’s strike that caused so much travel havoc in Europe cost the carrier more than A$640 Million.  The French-Dutch group said on Wednesday total passenger traffic fell 15.9 percent in September compared with the year before, adding that bookings for the fourth quarter were down by between 1 and 2 percentage points.