Hello Australia!! - See the leader of a nation get punched in the face! - A judge declares a mistrial in an infamous police brutality case - The "Affluenza" teen is on the run from the law - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A teenage boy came out of a crowd and punched Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy hard in the face, as the 60-year old campaigned for re-election in the northwestern city of Pontevedra.  Rajoy says he wasn't hurt; his glasses were knocked off and he later appeared with a big red mark on his face where the teen's fist connected.  Police arrested the young man. 

Despite being widely loathed in Spain - so much so that people want to punch him in the face - Rajoy is actually expected to be reelected in Sunday's election.  His conservative Popular Party's (PP) voter base of about 10 million tend to turn out come hell or high water - or even if the PP presides over: One of Europe's highest unemployment rates (47 percent for youth, 26.9 percent overall);  a housing crisis that has seen more than 400,000 families evicted;  the increasing likelihood that Catalonia might secede from Spain;  and a major financial corruption scandal at the heart of the PP in which he is personally implicated.  The PP probably won't win a clear majority, and will have to take on coalition partners.

A meeting to discuss resettling refugees had to be called off in the Dutch town of Geldermalsen after racists and xenophobes rioted, tearing down fences and throwing fireworks at police who responded with warning shots.  Police made several arrests and mayor Miranda de Vries tweeted she was sad "through and through".  The migration crisis, which has deposited several hundreds of thousands of people from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia in Europe will be topic number one in a meeting of European leaders later on Thursday.

Baltimore is pretty calm after a judge declared a mistrial in the case of one of the cops accused in the death of Freddie Gray.  The jury could not come up with a verdict.  The young African American man's death set off civil unrest in the US east coast city last May when viral videos showed the cops loading his limp and injured body into the back of a squadrol, in which he was taken for a "rough ride".  Gray died a week later of a severed spine.  But despite the earlier public anger, Freddie Gray's family is telling people not to get upset.  Prosecutors will discuss refiling charges against officer William G. Porter, the first of the six cops charged to go to trial.

Cops in Texas have issued an arrest warrant for the teen in the infuriating "affluenza" case, and some fear Ethan Couch has fled the country.  The sawed-off ginger twit killed four members of a poor Mexican family in a 2013 drunk driving crash - but he served no jail time, because the Texas judge agreed with a defense witness who testified Couch has "affluenza", a portmanteau used to describe psychological problems that afflicts the scions of wealthy families.  Part of the probation deal was that Couch stays out of trouble.  He didn't.  A video surfaced on social media showing Couch drinking alcohol in violation of his probation.  "I fear he has had a pretty good head start," said Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson.  "Reports are his mother is gone also, and I don't think they are going to be found locally."

The speaker of the Indonesian parliament has resigned amid allegations he demanded a $4 Billion stake in the country's largest mine, the Grasberg mine in West Papua.  Setya Novanto claimed he was just joking on the audio recordings of his conversations with Freeport McMoRan, asking for a 20 percent cut in exchange for paving the way to a new contract with the government.  "I apologize to all people of Indonesia for my performance while conducting my tasks," said Mr. Novanto upon resigning as Speaker, but staying on as an MO.  "Everything (I did( was for the people and the nation," he added.