Good Morning, Australia! – And ends of the world are melting faster than realized – Looks like Julian Assange will be staying put for the time being – A cop is arrested and charged after being caught on video bashing a woman with a brick – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

World sea levels have risen faster in the past 20 years than in the previous nine decades of the 20th Century.  That appears in the journal Nature Climate Change, using data from researchers at the University of Tasmania – who for the first time compared satellite data that show changes in water levels as well as subtle shifts in land formations.  This more accurate method showed ocean levels rising over the past two decades at a rate of between 2.6 and 2.9 millimeters a year.  It’s in line with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s projections, which were based on glacier melting in Greenland and Antarctica.

Sweden’s Supreme Court rejected Julian Assange’s appeal of a pre-trial detention order for nearly five-year old sexual abuse allegations.  That effectively leaves the Wikileaks founder stranded in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.  Swedish prosecutors want to interrogate Assange over allegations of rape, sexual molestation, and illegal coercion.  But Assange and his supporters reject those as trumped up and establishment revenge for his leaking of official secrets.

The European Union is asking for United Nations help in dismantling human traffickers in Libya, who are sending thousands upon thousands of undocumented immigrants across the Mediterranean Sea in rickety, oft-deadly ships.  Libya’s pathetic assemblage of government rejects this, seeing it as external interference in an already chaotic situation that has various militant and criminal groups pitted against each other and what passes for government.

Libyan government forces fired shells at a Turkish ship after warning it not to approach land.  One crewmember was killed, and Ankara condemned what it termed a “contemptible attack”.  Libyan forces don’t want any ships to approach the eastern port of Derna in order to prevent any outside supplies from reaching the Islamist rebels who want control of the ports. 

Belgium suspended some aid to Burundi because of its growing political crisis.  Burundi is incredibly poor and almost completely dependent on outside aid, and is concerned other nations might follow suit.  The money from Brussels would have gone to the next election and to police.  But Burundi has plunged into deadly violence over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term in office, something opponents say violates a peace deal that ended in the Burundi civil war in 2005.  Belgium says the conditions are not right for such an election.

A Delhi traffic cop who hit a woman with a brick for failing to pay a bribe has been sacked, arrested, and charged.  That’s according to reports from India after video of the assault went viral.  A quick-thinking passer-by managed to catch the sorry episode on mobile video.  Now-former cop Satish Chandra “has committed several criminal offences in a single act – assault with a blunt object, misuse of official position and he should also be immediately booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act,” said Delhi Home Minister Satyender Jain.

A wild boar ran out of the forest and into a Hong Kong shopping mall, somehow getting caught in a false ceiling and crashing through into a children’s clothing store.  And the crowd loved it.  Officers eventually tranquilized him and took him to a veterinary clinic.