Hello, Australia! – A Korean nationalist slashed the American ambassador’s face – The government hasn’t yet given up on two Aussies on Indonesia’s death row – The world’s oldest person has a birthday today – Lions have learned how to open car doors – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The US Ambassador to South Korea is recovering after an attack by a man with a razor knife.  Mark Lippert was walking to give a lecture at 7:40 AM local time, when an attacker identified as 55-year old Kim Ki-jong slashed the American’s face and arm.  People quickly wrestled Kim to the ground and police arrested him, reportedly as he shouted slogans against joint US-South Korean military exercises.  Kim Ki-jong – spelled Kim Ki-joong in some media accounts – is a Korean nationalist, and served two years of probation after being convicted of hurling two chunks of concrete at the Japanese ambassador in 2010.  President Park Geun-hye says the attack on Ambassador Lippert is an attack on the US-South Korean alliance.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s final desperation play to save two Australians on Indonesia’s death row is to offer to repatriate three Indonesians jailed in Australia, if Jakarta would send Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran south.  Meanwhile PM Tony Abbott is seeking another telephone conversation with President Joko Widodo to plead for mercy for the two men.  Chan and Sukumaran are sentenced to die, possibly within days, for plotting to smuggle heroin from Bali to Oz.

Close allies of slain Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov plan to release the documents he gathered that purport to prove direct Russian involvement in the insurrection in eastern Ukraine.  The evidence includes details obtained from parents of Russian soldiers killed while fighting on Ukrainian soil.  It was safeguarded from Russian police who confiscated Nemtsov’s computer as part of the investigation into his assassination on a bridge overlooking the Kremlin.  Shortly before he was killed with four shots to the back, Nemtsov said he feared assassination for his opposition to Russia’s links to the Ukraine rebellion.

An Argentine prosecutor is appealing the decision to throw out a controversial investigation of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK), the second time the allegations were thrown out of court due to a complete lack of evidence.  CFK had been accused of covering up Iranian involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing at a Jewish community center to preserve a trade deal with Tehran.  The problem for the prosecution is that no such trade deal exists, and no effort was ever made to cover-up Iranian involvement in the bombing – in fact, it’s been pretty much assumed since 1994.

The al Qaeda-linked al Nusra front has claimed responsibility for the deadly-but-ultimately-failed attack on a Syrian intelligence headquarters in Aleppo.  At least 20 members of the Syrian security forces and 14 militants were killed.  The terrorist group uploaded video of the bomb it set off in a tunnel leading into the facility, causing massive damage.  Despite that, al Nusra did not capture it.

A war crimes tribunal in Cambodia is charging two former members of the Khmer Rouge with crimes against humanity over their alleged roles in the deaths of an estimated 1.8 million people.  Im Chaem is now a Buddhist nun in her 60s, and she denies charges of running a forced labor camp.  Former Navy Chief Meas Muth allegedly sent detainees to a torture center where at least 14,000 people died.  The Khmer Rouge killed a fifth of Cambodia’s population during its brutal rule from 1975 to 1979.

Happy Birthday to Japan’s Misao Okawa, who turns 117 years old today.  Yeah, I said 117.  Okawa is believed to be the world’s oldest living person, and if she can hang in there for 5-1/2 more years, she’ll make it to oldest-ever.  Misao was born in Osaka during the reign of the Emperor Meiji in 1898, and lives there still.  In the past, she’s attributed her remarkable longevity to eating Sushi and getting enough sleep.

Okay, I don’t know if we should be alarmed about this, but Lions know how to open car doors.  And that knowledge should come in handy if you ever go on holiday in South Africa, or anyplace with a wildlife park where you drive among the Lions.  Kaylene and Sindy Sutherland discovered when visiting their parents in South Africa last year, when a Lioness opened the car door to say hello and perhaps eat one of them.  The video they uploaded has gone viral in recent days.

Or you can just go whale-watching.