Hello, Australia! – The UK will fall silent for the tourists killed in Tunisia – A shark knocks a man from his board not far from yesterday’s mauling off NSW – A toxic train wreck routes thousands of people from their homes – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

In the UK, flags have been lowered to half-mast in honor of the 30 Britons killed in the terrorist attack at the Tunisian beach report Sousse a week ago.  A minute of silence is to be observed at midday.  Wimbledon will delay the start time of matches from 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM to allow spectators and players take part.  Two more RAF flights are planned to repatriate the rest of the bodies of the murdered tourists, and inquests on the 17 that have already arrived will commence after the minute of silence.

Boko Haram extremists gunned down some 97 Muslims praying at mosques in the northeast Nigerian town of Kukawa.  The group appears to be following an order from Islamic State in the Mideast, to increase attacks during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.  A day earlier, Boko Haram killed 48 men and boys in another town at prayers before the daily fast.  The group has been able to regroup and lash out after a series of defeats at the hands of the regional military coalition.

A shark chomped a surfer’s board not far from where another man was mauled by a shark a day earlier.  In the latest case, the 52-year old surfer was knocked off his board and frightened, but not injured when the shark tried to take a bite in the waters off Lennox Head.  The victim of the earlier attack, 32-year old Matt Lee, remains in a critical condition with severe leg wounds after yesterday’s mauling off Lighthouse Beach, 10-kilometers south of Lennox Head.

The lower house of Brazil’s congress did a turnaround and approved a rewritten bill to lower the age of responsibility on serious criminal offenses from 18 to 16 years of age.  This comes a day after the Chamber of Deputies rejected a similar bill.  It still faces a second vote, and then two votes in the Senate.  Critics oppose this bill for many reasons, not least of which is terrible overcrowding in Brazil’s prisons.

Pakistan has raised the death toll to 17 lives lost in Thursday’s military train crash in the Chanawan canal near the industrial city of Gujranwala in eastern Punjab province.  Divers are searching for more bodies.  Separatist groups are known to bomb trains in Pakistan, but officials say this derailment was caused by a bridge collapse.

A train carrying toxic chemicals derailed and burned in the southern US, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 5,000 people from their homes in Maryville, Tennessee.  The tanker carrying acrylonitrile burst into flames and flooding the area with toxic smoke – and Cyanide is a byproduct of burning acrylonitrile.  It causes lung and kidney irritation in small amounts, but can be deadly in denser concentrations.  75 people were treated for exposure to the toxic mess, 28 fully admitted into hospital.

BP is agreeing to pay more than $18.7 Billion to settle claims from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  It’s the largest settlement paid by a corporation in US History.  More than 125 million gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf after an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oilrig in 2010.