Hello Australia!! - New figures show that economic inequality has gotten worse, and quickly - Allegations of match fixing rock top-level tennis - A new fight to protect the Great Australian Bight from oil drilling - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The richest One Percent now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to a new report from the charity Oxfam.  Using data from Credit Suisse, Oxfam also found that the wealthiest 62 people in the world have as much as the roughly 3.7 Billion people in the bottom half.  Just five years ago, it would have taken the top 388 wealthiest individuals to equal everyone in the bottom half.  The group is presenting these stunning numbers before this week's annual economic summit of the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, during which rich people and nations will pay lip service to everyone else's concerns of widening inequality.  "Instead of an economy that works for the prosperity of all, for future generations, and for the planet, we have instead created an economy for the One Percent," Oxfam's report says.

Newly exposed documents allege that eight players in this week's Australian Open tennis tournament have been implicated in allegations of alleged match-fixing.  The BBC and Buzzfeed News report:  "Over the last decade 16 players who have ranked in the top 50 have been repeatedly flagged to the Tennis Integrity Unit (attached to the Association of Tennis Professionals) over suspicions they have thrown matches."  Because of the lack of action over the length of time during which allegations came up, there are concerns that tennis authorities aren't serious about pursuing full investigations. 

The Sea Shepherd group and the Wilderness Society are joining an alliance of environmental groups to oppose BP's desires to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight.  The big oil company that did so much for the Gulf of Mexico (>_<#) is proposing four deep-water exploration wells about 300 kilometers south-west of Ceduna.  "Today the (MY) Steve Irwin will depart Fremantle Western Australia en-route to the Southern Ocean to patrol for illegal fishing and whaling, and when these whales come back to Australian waters, they face an even greater threat, which is BP drilling," said Sea Shepherd Australia managing director Jeff Hansen to reporters at a group announcement. 

The Wilderness Society noted the importance that the Great Australian Bight holds to the world's population of southern right, humpback, sperm, blue, and beak whales.  "Putting at risk a pristine marine environment, an area that sustains a huge fishing industry, a huge Eco-tourism industry and one of the most significant whale calving and nursery areas in the world, is simply completely inappropriate," said Wilderness Society SA Director Peter Owen.

Argentina's new conservative President Mauricio Macri is reopening the case of Alberto Nisman.  He's the state prosecutor who was found dead after making conspiracy allegations against then-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) - but he never backed them up with evidence and they were later twice tossed out of court.  Many believe Nisman was fed bogus information by a rogue intelligence agent trying to discredit CFK.  Nisman's death was never formally determined to be a suicide, and was considered disturbing by many Argentinians.  Macri spoke with Nisman's teenage daughter on the eve of today's anniversary of his death, promising to open all files related to it. 

Israeli troops combed the Hebron Hills, searching for the assailant who stabbed an Israeli woman to death in her home in the Otniel settlement in the West Bank.  The attacker is suspected to be Palestinian.  The victim is identified as 38-year old Dafna Meir, a nurse and mother of six children, some of whom were home at the time but physically unharmed.  The home invasion is the first attack of this type in the most recent spate of violence that began in October.

Extremist Jews are suspected of scrawling anti-Christian graffiti on the walls of the Church of the Dormition outside Jerusalem's old city, built on the spot where Christian tradition holds the Virgin Mary died.  Written in Hebrew, the graffiti includes threats of violence, slogans degrading Jesus, and the message, "Go to hell," which was actually among the nicer things.  "We will show zero tolerance to whomever harms the democratic foundations of Israel and its freedom of religion and we will apprehend those who carried out this heinous act," said Public Security minister Gilad Erdan.