Peter Greste appeals – Some MH17 victims come home – The Hiroshima mudslides could be worse than first reported – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australian journalist Peter Greste is formally appealing his conviction for somehow aiding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.  Greste was sentenced to seven years in prison, and his two Al Jazeera coworkers were sentenced to seven and ten years each.  The Greste legal team will challenge his arrest, and the evidence presented in court that did not prove the charges against him.  Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the government will wait until Greste’s appeals are exhausted before asking Egypt for clemency.

At least 27 people are dead after two buses crashed on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.  Police are still searching through the wreckage.  More than 40 people are injured, including foreign nationals from Russia, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia.

A plane carrying the bodies of 20 Malaysian victims of the downed of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 has arrived in Kuala Lumpur.  Malaysia's King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah, Prime Minister Najib Razak and other top officials received the coffins in a solemn ceremony at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.  MH17 was shot down by a missile fired by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine last month, killing all 298 people on board, including 38 Australian citizens and residents. 

Japanese rescuers have raised the number of people missing from the terrible mudslides around Hiroshima to 50.  That could more than double the death toll, which stands at 39 lives lost.  Rescue work is hampered by heavy rain sending more torrents of mud and silt down.  More than a month’s worth of rain came down on already-saturated hillsides on Wednesday, causing tons of mud, granite boulders, and bamboo to slide down into densely-packed suburbs.

The terrorist group Islamic State wanted 100 Million Euros for the release of US journalist James Foley, who was eventually killed on camera in an IS propaganda video released this week.  Foley’s employer Global Post got the ransom demand from the terrorists, and turned it over to the US Government, which usually does not negotiate with terrorists.  UK police and security services are working to identify the jihadist who is heard speaking with a London accent before murdering Foley.

The World Health Organization is denying that 70 deaths in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo are related to Ebola.  The victims – including five healthcare workers – had haemorrhagic gastroenteritis, which produces symptoms very similar to Ebola, which has killed more than 1,350 people in West Africa.  Adding to the suspicions is the fact that this haemorrhagic gastroenteritis outbreak is in the same general region where Ebola first appeared in 1976.