The running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain ends with an Australian woman hospitalized - Doping rears its ugly head in world-class sprinting – An exceptionally ignorant comment lands a politician in very hot water.  All that and more cows await you in today’s CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A 23-year-old Australian woman is in “very serious” condition after being gored in the chest by a bull during the final day of the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, Spain.  She was observing along the path and not actually running.  Hospital officials say she suffered several fractured ribs and damage to her right lung.  The injuries really piled up in the last few days of the Bull Run, with at least four people gored and several trampled in a human pile up on Saturday.

Two big name Olympic sprinters, among the fastest men in history, have failed drug tests.  American Tyson Gay tested positive for a banned substance and immediately withdrew from next month's world championships in Moscow.  Jamaican Asafa Powell tested positive for the same banned stimulant, but is waiting for a B-test to come back.  The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reports Powell’s trainer has been arrested in Italy.

Egypt has frozen the assets of more than a dozen leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.  It comes amid the investigation into whether they incited violence in the deadly clashes that followed the ouster of Mohammed Morsi from the presidency on 3 July.  Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood admits it has been in behind-the-scenes negotiations with the Egyptian Army, contradicting earlier denials that it is looking for ways to end the standoff with the interim government.

An Italian Senator has apologized after saying the country’s first black cabinet minister reminded him of “an orangutan”.  Roberto Calderoli of the anti-immigrant, ultra-conservative Northern League was referring to Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge, an Italian citizen since 1983 who was born in Africa.  It’s the latest in a series of racist incidents in Italian politics.  The Northern League has already expelled one politician who claimed Ms. Kyenge wanted to import “tribal traditions”, and another who suggested she be sexually assaulted.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will push for European laws that protect personal information on the Internet.  This follows revelations of widespread online snooping by the US that has caused resentment in countries that learned they were being watched.  Merkel says she expects the US to comply existing German privacy laws.

The man behind those US Surveillance revelations is being nominated for a Nobel Prize.  Stefan Svallfors is a sociology professor at Umea University in Sweden, making qualified to nominate the fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden.  Svallfors argues that Snowden had committed a “heroic effort at great personal expense.”  The US wants to arrest Snowden, who is currently camped out in a Moscow Airport.  Russian officials say they still haven’t gotten an official asylum request from Snowden.

India’s last telegram was sent on Sunday.  The state run telegram company has shut down after 163 years of providing fast, long-distance communication, only to be outdone by Internet email and texting.  Few telegram services are left in the world, existing mostly as nostalgic novelties.

A cow fell through the roof of a house in Brazil, killing a man in bed.  The cow was grazing on a hill behind the house and walked onto the roof, which was not built to support a one-ton animal.  She landed on 45-year old Joao Maria de Souza and narrowly missed his wife.  Apparently this is the third time in recent years a crashed through the roof of a home in Caratinga, but the first fatality.

Moooving along.. At first, cows are kind of interested in the Sax band “MoonHooch”, but then it gets a little too experimental and the whole “people with cowbells” thing is alienating.  Your Monday World News Briefs:  Beginning and ending with Bovine stuff.