The race to rescue a snowbound express train – The Stones’ sax player is dead – Parents sue for millions after their daughters were switched at birth – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Trains outfitted with snowplows are headed up into the mountains of northern Japan to rescue 300 passengers trapped on a train that’s stuck in the snow.  This is happening on the Japan Rail Senzan Line between Yamagata and Sendai near the Yamadera Station.  The express train (hah) was taking commuters across the mountains, but the power lines collapsed under the weight of days of heavy, wet snowfall. 

Saxophone legend Bobby Keys is dead at age 70, and his mates in the Rolling Stones say they are devastated at “the loss of their very dear friend and legendary saxophone player”.  Keys is known for his work with the Stones on the songs Brown Sugar, Live With Me, and their albums Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main St.  And he recorded and toured with the band for years.  Keys also worked with George Harrison and John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and let’s just cut to the chase, ALL of the best of British rock from the 1970s.  A native Texan, he began his career touring with Buddy Holly and later returned to perform with one of Joe Ely’s tightest bands. 

Ferguson, Missouri police love rubbing the salt in.  The cops are investigating the step-father of Michael Brown, the black teenager who was gunned down by a white cop less than a minute into a stop for jaywalking.  On 24 November, immediately after authorities announced no charges would be filed against the remorseless killer cop, step-father Louis Head yelled some angry comments – including “Burn this bitch down”.  Now, rioters were already in town and planning to riot anyway, so it’s doubtful that Head’s rant (unheard by most) had any effect on anything.  But several cars and businesses were burned last week.

By the way, the only video evidence of anyone setting any fires in Ferguson shows a mysterious, black-clad and heavily armed paramilitary team setting a car on fire outside a business they were supposedly protecting.  The whole block burned.  Unfortunately, the video is being championed by one of those Alex Jones conspiracy theory guys, so the world will likely ignore it.

Anarchists burned a bus and several cars in running battles with police in Athens, Greece.  The clashes followed a large demonstration of 10,000 protesters in support of Nikos Romanos, a jailed anarchist who is on hunger strike seeking prison leave to attend university.  Nikos is convicted of taking part in an armored car robbery.

South Korea teams found six more bodies in the western Bering Sea near the spot where the Oryong 501 fishing vessel sank earlier this week.  Only seven fishers were rescued and more than 50 people are still missing.  The ship sank in rough seas while fishing for Pollock, a winter delicacy in South Korea.

The families of two French women who were switched at birth are suing the doctors and clinic involved in the case.  Both girls were put into the same incubator in the clinic in the southeastern city of Cannes in 1994, and that’s apparently when the switch occurred.  Ten years ago, the parents of one girl realized the daughter didn’t look like her parents.  DNA tests were performed, the families met, they decided to keep the children they raised.  Now aged 20-years old, the families are demanding US$15 Million.