NASA’s first attempt to privatize space deliveries blows up – A second American nurse is declared Ebola-free – The government’s plan to save the Great Barrier Reef is condemned as too weak – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Well, there’s your free market.  NASA’s first attempt to use a private rocket to ferry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) blew up six seconds after leaving the launchpad in Virginia, which was reportedly damaged.  The Antares-class “Cygnus” cargo ship operated by the Orbital Sciences Corporation was loaded with 5,000 pounds of experiments, equipment, and food for the astronauts aboard the ISS.  Russia’s space agency plans to go ahead with its own supply run on Wednesday.  NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries to the ISS. 

Canada buried the soldier killed in a “lone wolf” terrorist attack at Parliament last week.  Thousands mourned Corporal Nathan Cirillo at a funeral Tuesday in his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.  An emotional Prime Minister Stephen Harper eulogized the soldier as someone the entire country looked to with pride, gratitude and deep, abiding respect.  Tributes came in from Queen Elizabeth, and US Secretary of State John Kerry placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, where Cirillo was ambushed by a self-styled jihadist who was later shot dead.

Dallas Nurse Amber Vinson was discharged from hospital after being declared Ebola-free.  She was one of two healthcare workers infected with the potentially-deadly virus while treating a patient who came to Texas from Liberia, and later developed symptoms of Ebola disease.  That leaves just one case of Ebola in the US, even while governors and health officials wrangle over quarantine orders that vary from state to state.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a commission to investigate problems with the nation’s police, after officers allegedly took part in the cowardly and gruesome assassination of a promising young ruling Socialist Party lawmaker and his partner earlier this month.  The commission will be tasked to “revolutionize the police” and “fix everything that's wrong” with it.  Nine suspects have been arrested, three are still on the run.

About 300 doctors in Zimbabwe are on strike, after the government failed to address their demands for better pay.  Two weeks ago, they demanded the government raise their average salary from the equivalent of A$320 per month to $1,350.  The health ministry claims the doctors walked out without having exhausted all “mechanisms for dialogue”.  It leaves only a few senior doctors on duty for the entire country – hospitals are turning away all but emergencies.

The Abbott government’s plan to save the Great Barrier Reef is not enough.  The Academy of Science says the Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan not only fails to address key pressures on the reef including climate change and coastal development, but it won’t even maintain the Reef against the current level of environmental degradation.  Queensland’s coal ports are also a threat to the reef, and the Abbott government approved a plan to dredge a port at Abbot Point in Queensland, and dump thousands of tons of sediment in the sea.

A slow-moving lava flow is getting too close to a subdivision of homes on Hawaii’s Big Island.  Evacuations will likely follow.

Japan’s opposition Democrats have begun hammering Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the series of scandals that have rocked his government in recent weeks.  The trade minister was forced to resign for wrongly using funds to buy cosmetics, and her replacement has denied patronizing S&M bars while acknowledging his political funds have been spent in one – and he admitted to owning stock in the power companies he’s supposed to regulate.  Another minister had to quit for using state funds to purchase campaign materials. 

The Czech Republic has honored the Brit who saved 669 children from the Nazis.  Czech President Milos Zeman bestowed the Order of the White Lion to 105-year old Sir Nicholas Winton in Prague Castle.  Winton was 29-years old when he arranged for a series of trains to take the children – most of the Jews – on the first leg of the journey from what was then Czechoslovakia to foster families in London.  “I am delighted that so many of the children are still about and are here to thank me,” said Sir Nicolas.