Hello, Australia! – FIFA picks a date to replace Sepp Blatter – The Texas pool party cop quits – An Indonesian city’s new curfew may infuriate you – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The FIFA emergency conference to pick a successor to outgoing president Sepp Blatter will take place in Zurich, Switzerland on 16 December, according to the BBC.  This comes amid the corruption and bribery scandal sweeping through the world football body.  US Prosecutors indicted 14 FIFA officials with corruption, and are reportedly looking at Blatter as well.

The white Texas cop caught on video physically abusing a black teenage girl at a pool party has bowed to incredible national pressure and internet ridicule, and resigned.  It turns out that even Eric Casebolt’s boss agreed with most people who viewed the viral video, that the now former-corporal was acting the fool.  “I want to say to our community that the actions of Casebolt, as seen on the video, of the disturbance at the pool, are indefensible.  Our policies, our training, our practice do not support his actions,” said McKinney Police Chief Greg Conley.  “He came into the call out of control, and as the video shows, was out of control during the incident.”  Nice barrel roll, Eric.

The release of a black man who was forced to endure more than four decades in solitary confinement is being delayed for a few days, at the request of the top prosecutor in the deep southern US state of Louisiana.  Albert Woodfox was twice tried, twice convicted, and twice acquitted in the death of a jail guard.  Earlier this week, the judge ruled that a third trial would be unfair and ordered Woodfox released.  The state now has until Friday to explain why it wouldn’t.

South Korea reports that nine people are now dead of the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).  And 13 new cases have been reported, bringing the nation’s total to 108, the highest level of MERS infections outside the Middle East.  Hong Kong already issued a “red alert” advisory against non-essential travel to South Korea.

A man with a shotgun killed two neighbors and two police officers in Hebei province in rural northern China, before other officers showed up to shoot and kill him.  40-year old Liu Shuangrui was reportedly suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.  It’s a rare incidence of a gun crime in China, where the private ownership of firearms is strictly banned.

Police outside Sao Paulo, Brazil forced squatters out of some favelas where the people had been squatting for nearly a year.  They got their revenge by tossing lit matches over their shoulders on the way out.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is visiting Italy, perhaps testing European solidarity in regard to western sanctions on Russia.  Russia has better relations with Italy than most of the rest of Europe.  Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will likely give Putin a warm reception, but is very unlikely to break ranks with the US and EU.  Two weeks from now, the EU decides on extending those economic sanctions. 

The Mayor of Banda Aceh, Indonesia is imposing a partial curfew for women to reduce the number of sexual assaults.  Restaurants, cafes, sports center, et al are banned from serving and women after 11 PM unless their husband or male family members accompany them.  Women are forbidden from working at said venues after the curfew as well.  Women’s Rights activists are livid, saying the curfew is discriminatory and contrary to Indonesia’s constitution – and proves the Banda Aceh government is failing to protect women from violence.  Although Indonesia is a secular country, Aceh province was given some leeway in enforcing Islamic Sharia law as part of the deal to end a separatist war in 2006.

24-year old British adventurer James Kingston climbed to the top of the Wembley Stadium Arch.