Hello, Australia! – An Australian woman ends her Abu Dhabi nightmare – Desmond Tutu is ailing – Which band is going to be the first to perform in Pyongyang?? – Occultists are suspected of stealing the head of one of the first great filmmakers – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australian Jodi Magi is free from jail and has left Abu Dhabi, where she spent a couple of miserable nights sleeping on the floor without mattress, pillow, or even toilet paper and eating utensils.  The 39-year old was convicted of “saying bad words on the Internet” for posting an uncaptioned photo of a car taking up two disabled parking spaces outside her apartment.  Jodi writes on her blog, “If you think what happened to me was insane, spend a couple of days in an Abu Dhabi jail; I have nothing to complain about compared to the vast majority of women I met whose only crime was being poor, marrying the wrong guy, getting pregnant outside of marriage or/and being victims of rampant and systemic police corruption where ‘evidence’, ‘ethics’ and ‘due process’ are unheard of concepts.”

South Africa’s anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was admitted to hospital in Cape Town for treatment of a persistent infection.  It’s the latest challenge for the 83-year old, who polio and tuberculosis as a child, and has been living with prostate cancer for 15 years.  The cancer forced him to cancel a meeting with some of his fellow laureates late last year.

German police are looking at an occult motive in the theft of “Nosferatu” director F.W. Murnau’s head from his grave in Germany.  Cops say wax residue was found nearby, suggesting someone had been burning candles.  It’s not the first time vandals or overzealous fans disturbed the grave of Murnau.  1922’s silent movie “Nosferatu” is considered the first classic vampire movie.

North Korea has picked the first foreign band it will allow to perform in Pyongyang, and it couldn’t be any weirder.  It’s.. Laibach.  Seriously, LAIBACH.  If you’re not familiar, Laibach is a Slovenian techno performance art group that describes themselves as Retro-Garde – taking on the trappings of totalitarians to skewer the powerful.  Laibach has delighted in confusing journalists who demand to know the bands political leanings with such ambiguous phrases as, “We are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter,” and “We believe in God, but we don’t trust him.”  Hey, Milos and friends, good on ya – assuming that this doesn’t start World War III.  Laibach's representatives insist North Korea is not as closed as the Western media portrays it, and like Laibach.. it's misunderstood.

Pope Francis says he was not offended by the Hammer and Sickle crucifix presented to him by Bolivian President Evo Morales.  The cross was largely forgotten over the decades after it was designed by one of the Pontiff’s fellow Jesuits – Fr. Luis Espinal, who was murdered by right-wing paramilitaries in 1980.  There was quite an uproar from purist critics by the combination of Communist and Christian symbolism.  Francis treated it as a gift, and took it home.  The Vatican already said he has no plans to actually put it on an altar.

Venezuela’s comptroller’s office is banning right wing hardliner Marina Corina Machado from holding public office for a year.  It appears to disqualify the wealthy English-speaking pol from resuming her career in congress should she win in this December’s elections.  Last year, she was booted out of congress for violating the constitution by criticizing the administration of President Nicolas Maduro as an agent of a foreign government.  In 2002, Machado signed an illegal decree to dissolve state institutions during the failed 2002 coup against then-President Hugo Chavez.