Good Morning, Australia! – The cause of the crash of Germanwings plane crash is unthinkable – The co-pilot of the ill-fated once spoke of “burn out syndrome” – A country running out of potable water prepares for desalination plants – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 made a “deliberate attempt to destroy the aircraft”, according to a French prosecutor.  Pilot Patrick Sonderheimer got up to use the bathroom, and 28-year old co-pilot Andreas Lubitz locked the door behind him.  Audio recovered from the cockpit voice recorder indicates Sonderheimer desperately tried to get in as passengers screamed, says Brice Robin, Public Prosecutor of Marseille – and Andreas Lubitz is heard calmly breathing until the very last moments.  “The theory of a deliberate crash is plausible,” said the German transport minister.

The hunt is on for information on Lubitz’s alleged motivation, assuming the prosecutor is correct.  Der Spiegel magazine correspondent Matthias Gebauer reports that Lubitz may have suffered from depression or burnout, taking six months off from training in 2009.  But any links to terrorism “are not known by us”, according to Brice Robin.  Andreas Lubitz got his glider’s license as a teen and later became a pilot, and was even lauded as a “positive example” by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  His gliding club in Germany has nothing but positive things to say, his neighbors recall a motivated young man who kept fit through running. 

Indian police arrested the first suspect in the rape of an elderly nun.  The faces of three of as many as six attackers were caught on security video when they broke into a convent school in West Bengal earlier this month.  Police had faced criticism about the pace of the investigation, which comes as India faces its terrible problem with commonplace sexual assaults.

Nigeria’s two main rivals in the presidential election signed an agreement to respect the results of this weekend’s election.  Former general Muhammadu Buhari wants to unseat incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan based on the lousy security situation in the northeast, where Boko Haram terrorists have (until neighboring countries joined the fight in recent weeks) killed, kidnapped, and conquered with impunity.  The two men shook hands and hugged, and called on their supporters to embrace peace, regardless of who won.

Chile’s got a problem with water where the country doesn’t need it, and none where it does.  Two people are dead in flash flooding in the normally arid Atacama Desert, and two-dozen people are missing.  One person was buried in a mudslide, the other was electrocuted by a downed power line.  Flooding forced some of the country’s copper mines to shut down.  But hundreds of kilometers south around Santiago, the problem is an eight-year drought. Scientists say there is a long-term trend of increasingly dry conditions, linked to climate change.  With no end in sight, President Michelle Bachelet says the government will invest in desalinization plants and reservoirs to ensure access to potable water.