Colombia investigates a shocking and deadly tragedy on a Sunday school bus – A radical cleric linked to the death of a Sydney man is convicted – Miss Thailand apparently wants to ruthlessly slaughter people who don’t agree with her politics – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Colombia detained the driver of a bus on which 32 children were killed when the vehicle caught fire.  This happened as the children, from toddlers to age 12, were being shuttled home from Sunday school in the village of Fundacion.  President Juan Manuel Santos interrupted a busy final stretch of his reelection campaign to go to the town on the Caribbean coast, and call for a day of national mourning.

France’s proposal to haul Syria before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity is getting considerable support.  Switzerland is leading a coalition of 60 nations asking the UN Security Council to adopt a draft resolution over the issue.  But Russia and China are expected to exercise their veto power to stop the drive in its tracks.  More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria’s civil war, some of them by the government’s banned chemical weapons.

Guilty:  A jury in New York City convicted radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza on all eleven charges of supporting terrorism.  Prosecutors said that among other things, Hamza supplied money and a satellite phone to the terrorists who kidnapped 16 foreigners in Yemen in the last days of 1998.  Four hostages – including 35-year old Sydney accountant Andrew Thirsk – were killed in the Yemeni military’s rescue mission.  The defense plans to appeal, but Abu Hamza could get life in prison when he’s sentenced in September.

Nigerian police say they foiled a plot to detonate a second suicide car bomb in Kano city.  But the first bomb did go off, and it killed four people.  It’s believed Boko Haram – the group that kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month – is responsible for the Kano attacks.

The massive flooding in the Balkans is affecting about a quarter of Bosnia’s total population.  One million people do not have access to clean water.  Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said the “terrifying” destruction is comparable to Bosnia’s 1992-95 war.  Unusual torrential rain has caused the flooding, and the deaths of at least 35 people in Bosnia and Serbia.

There’s no sign Russia has pulled back any of its 40,000 troops poised just over Ukraine’s eastern border, despite claims from the Kremlin.  It’s the third time Russia has claimed the troops were going back to base.  Ukrainian government forces are continuing their operations against pro-Russian separatists who’ve taken over government and police buildings in the restive east and southeast.

A woman testified that entertainer Rolf Harris wanted to be the first to give her a “tongue kiss”, when she was 11 or 12 years old in 1969.  Harris says he’s not guilty of 12 charges of indecent assault against girls in the UK aged between seven and 19 years old.  At Southwick Court in London, the woman also said the abuse affected her later relationships.

The future is here?  Really?  “The future”?  This was the future 50 years ago, when James Bond still wore a fashionable hat to work.

Orangutan predicts German soccer Cup Final winner.

Who’d ever thought that calling for the executions of thousands of her countrymen would give a beauty queen a bad name?  22-year-old Weluree Ditsayabut is Thailand’s contestant in the Miss Universe pageant later this year.  But her past comments on Twitter and Facebook suggest she’s not going to win “Miss Congeniality”.  Ditsayabut said “Thailand is contaminated” by the “red-shirt bastards” whose leaders “should all be executed”.  Makes you wonder what she’ll be doing in the talent competition.  The organizers of the Miss Universe Thailand haven’t yet responded to it, but Ditsayabut later apologized for her “inappropriate behavior”.