Hello, Australia! – Oz accidentally released personal information on how many world leaders? – Two US drug agents are accused of looting bitcoins during an investigation – The mysterious Mexican dogs who ‘knew’ – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The White House is investigating how the Abbott Government managed to leak the passport details of President Barack Obama and 30 other heavyweight world leaders – but didn’t tell any of them of the breach.  This happened prior to the Brisbane G20 Summit.  An immigration department worker mistakenly forwarded all sorts of goodies – passport numbers, visa details, and other personal identifiers – to the organizers of the Asian Cup football tournament.  Officials believe/hope/pray that it was “unlikely that the information is in the public domain”.

Singapore police confirm they arrested a teenager who uploaded a foul-mouthed video rant about the death of the country’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, and which also disparaged Christians.  Free speech advocates are trying to support 17-year old Amos Yee, but there are also a good many nationalist types calling for his scalp.  The kid is looking at up to three years in prison and a fine of more than A$4,700. 

Another secular blogger has been hacked to death in Bangladesh.  Police arrested two men in the killing of Washiqur Rahman, who wrote against religious fundamentalism.  It comes just weeks after American atheist blogger Avijit Roy was murdered in Bangladesh in the same manner.

India is working on evacuating some 4,000 citizens from strife-torn Yemen.  More than half of them are nurses on contract – some would say, very harsh contracts – to hospitals that are reluctant to let them go because they would have to close without foreign staff.  Meanwhile, Pakistan says it will send troops to join the Saudi-led coalition to defeat the Iran-backed Houthi Rebels who’ve overrun the capital and sent the government scurrying.

The US is charging two former Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents with stealing more than A$1 Million in digital currency while investigating the “Silk Road”, an Internet marketplace best known for drug dealing.  Carl Force is charged with using a complex bitcoin scheme to defraud the US Government and the subjects of his criminal investigation.  Shaun Bridges is accused of hiding his funds in Japan’s MtGox bitcoin exchange, and then sneaking them out into his personal retirement accounts – just before getting a warrant to seize US$2.1 Million in MtGox’s assets.

A cop in Sinaloa, Mexico is facing up to nine years in prison after a video was posted to the Internet showing him killing a crocodile with a machine gun.  Problem is, crocs are a protected species in Mexico.  Mayor Arturo Duarte Garcia of Ahome says the cop’s decision “should be analysed in the view of the danger”.  The croc got into the village’s water treatment facility, and Civil Defense wardens where having a time getting it out – they asked the officer to shoot it in the head.  He did that, and more.

A woman who cared for the stray dogs in her village got an unexpected and ethereal tribute, when strays showed up to attend her funeral – more than 1300 kilometers away.  71-year-old Margarita Suarez spent her life caring for dogs in Merida, way off on the Yucatan Peninsula.  The funeral was held just south of Mexico City in Cuernavaca.  So clearly, not the same strays that Margarita fed. How could these dogs have known?  It seems impossible, said daughter Patricia Urrutia.  “They stayed with my mother all day, and then at night they all stayed – but in the morning all the dogs vanished but one.  One hour before we brought my mom to be cremated the dogs came back and grouped around as if to say goodbye,” Urrutia said, “I swear by God that it was beautiful, marvelous.”  And, “No,” dogs do not normally hang around the funeral home in Cuernavaca.