Hello Australia! - Christmas Island is back under control - US university student protesters achieve an incredible goal - Ethiopia faces a new famine - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The disturbance at the Christmas Island detention facility is over, according to the Immigration Department.  According to the ABC, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says that authorities used tear gas, but he won't confirmed if rubber bullets were fired.  At least five people are injured, and damage to the facility will require A$1 Million to repair.  The disturbances began on Sunday after a detainee who had escaped the camp was found dead outside.  Inmates lit fires inside and barricaded themselves in a compound with weapons.

Myanmar's election results are still not in, but it appears that Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has won a landslide - all but one parliamentary seat in Yangon, and 70 percent of contested seats nationwide.  The last time she won an election 25 years ago, the military ignored the results and ushered in a dark era of oppression and house arrest for Suu Kyi.  This time, the semi-democratic constitution guarantees the military 25 percent of parliamentary seats and control of the three most important ministries.  It also bans Suu Kyi from becoming president because her two sons are British citizens.  Assuming that the military accepts the results, Suu Kyi still has a way to go before Myanmar is truly a democracy.

The United Nations is warning that 15 million people in Ethiopia will need food aid by the end of the year because of a severe drought.  The lack of rain has destroyed crop yields, which are down 90 percent in the worst-affected regions.  The Ethiopian government has set aside more than A$280 Million to deal with the crisis, but the UN says another A$700 Million is needed.

Chad is declaring a state of emergency around the area of Lake Chad, because of increasing Boko Haram attacks drifting over from Nigeria.  Chad has been instrumental in helping Nigeria to suppress the Islamist insurgency, but Boko Haram is nothing if not persistent.  Despite losing most of its territory, the terrorist group has been adept at striking out with suicide bombings, including inside Chad's more remote regions.  Amnesty International says at least 17,000 people - mostly civilians - have died since Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009.

The president of the University of Missouri in America's heartland has resigned after intense student protests over his perceived indifference to racism.  The university chancellor is also stepping down to a less prestigious post at the end of the year.  The university board is now vowing to improve race relations on campus, which students say has been stained recently by the open use of the "n-word" by white students, and racist graffiti including swastikas.  Outgoing president Tim Wolfe isn't even an educator, he was brought in from the business world to cut budgets - something that made him incredibly unpopular to start with.  But Wolfe's fate was sealed when black members of the football team, backed by their white coach and teammates, refused to play or train until he resigned.  Mizzou would have lost US$1 Million if it had been forced to forfeit this weekend's game.

The Seaworld aquatic theme park in San Diego, California is phasing out its Killer Whale show.  Since the release of the documentary Blackfish a couple of years ago, Seaworld's ticket sales have plummeted and its stock price has halved as the public grows more aware that Orcas need to range hundreds of kilometers in their native oceans, not in tiny little inland tanks. 

Brazil pulled the mining license of Samarco, after last week's dam collapse in the south-eastern village of Bento Rodrigues.  Samarco operates the mine for Australia's BHP-Billiton and its partner Vale.  Three people are confirmed dead and two dozen are missing and presumed dead.