A South African official is accused of taking a bride as a bribe – Health officials are fighting the rapid spread of a very a painful disease – Find out which hilarious two words will get you fired as Ukraine’s Foreign Minister – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

While England was losing to Uruguay 2-0 in the World Cup, protests on Brazil’s streets are getting bigger.  More than 2,000 people marched in Sao Paulo to demand free public transportation.  The demonstration soon turned into a face off between violent cops and the “Black Bloc” – windows smashed, tears from gas, fun times for one and all.  Earlier, the Inter-American Press Association complained that at least 17 journalists had been injured in violence since the beginning of the tournament – 15 of then hurt by police.

Cuba is the latest country to report cases of a really nasty, mosquito-borne virus called “Chikungunya”.  It produces symptoms similar to dengue fever, including high fever, extreme joint pain, and skin rash.  The first two cases of this outbreak were reported in December on the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean – by March, the World Health Organization said there were 8,000 confirmed infections of Chikungunya spreading across the region from Florida to Central America.

The US Centers for Disease Control is admitting that at least 75 workers were exposed to Anthrax, a potentially deadly infectious disease.  A lab specializing in fighting bioterror apparently failed to fully inactivate samples of the live bacteria.  The workers are being monitored and offered antibiotics and vaccination, CDC officials said.  So far none have shown signs of illness of Anthrax.

South Africa’s Commission for Gender Equality is investigating reports that the head of its public broadcaster was bribed with a wife in exchange for more programming in a local language.  The Sowetan newspaper says traditional chiefs paraded ten young women in front of Hlaudi Motsoeneng of the SABC, and he chose a 22-year old.  Motsoeneng apparently also got a cow and a calf out of the deal.  Oh yeah, and he was already married.  Motsoeneng is also being investigated for allegedly falsifying his credentials and for the strange circumstances around his appointment to SABC.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he will sign an economic agreement with the European Union on 27 June.  It’s the exact sign agreement that former President Viktor Yanukovich balked on last year, leading to months of messy protests and Yanukovich’s ouster.  Poroshenko also appointed a new foreign minister, replacing the guy who was forced to step down for calling Russian president Vladimir Putin a “d__khead”.  Seriously, he did that.

After almost two weeks trapped more than 1,000 meters underground, rescuers were finally able to pull German caver Johann Westhauser to the surface.  The 52-year old spelunker was injured in the head and chest during a rockslide while exploring Germany’s deepest cave. 

A Russian rocket carried two Japanese Satellites into orbit.  The Hodoyoshi-3 and Hodoyoshi-4 will monitor environmental damage near the crippled nuclear plants in Fukushima and Chernobyl.  They’ll take photos of the two nuclear power plants and their surroundings regularly receive data, including radiation levels, from instruments near the two plants.

Chile blew the peak off of a mountain to create a flat surface on which to mount the European Extremely Large Telescope, or E-ELT.  Okay, the blast atop Cerro Armazones wasn’t all that dramatic, but the E-ELT will be the biggest optical/near-infrared telescope in the world with a main mirror almost 40 meters across.