Armed rangers are hunting a killer croc in the Northern Territories – Egypt veers from the “roadmap to democracy”  – There is NO Justin Bieber news today – But thousands protest the World Cup in Brazil – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Police and park rangers in the Northern Territories are hunting the crocodile that took a 12-year old boy and mauled his friend.  This happened while the lads were enjoying an Australia Day swim in Mudginberri Billabong in Kakadu National Park.  The area was posted with signs warning of the crocodile danger.

The World Bank is pledging almost A$2.3 Billion to help Myanmar catch up to its neighbors.  The plan is to bulk up the energy infrastructure and provide better healthcare to the population.  Myanmar is struggling to rebuild its economy after decades of rule by a military dictatorship that kept the nation shut off from the rest of the world.

Just days after taking the top job at Japan’s national Broadcaster NHK, Katsuto Momii played down the Imperial Japanese military's use of sex slaves, nicely termed “comfort women”, during World War II.  Momii said the practice was common in any country in any war – which it wasn’t.  The idiotic comments were instantly condemned by Japan’s weary neighbors that suffered under Imperial rule.  Momii was recently moved into the job by his pal, nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Egypt’s interim government is redrawing the roadmap back to democracy.  The presidential election will now precede the parliamentary vote.  The reversal will give the next president significant legislative authority.  And guess what?  Military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to stand in the presidential contest.  Total coincidence!

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Jewish settlers should be allowed to remain in their homes should peace talks lead to an independent Palestinian state.  Netanyahu believes there can be a Jewish minority in the Palestinian state, just as there is an Arab minority in the Jewish state.  But the hardcore supporters of the settlers in his coalition are condemning him for even suggesting that Jewish settlements could come under Palestinian control.

One of the world’s foremost scholars on the Holocaust is giving back an award.  91-year old historian Randolph Braham, himself a survivor, says Hungary is trying to whitewash its role in assisting the nazi deportation of Jews to death camps in the early 1940s, actions that resulted in 450,000 deaths.  Braham was given an award for his work from Hungary in 2011, but says the “history rewriting campaign” began shortly after Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government came to power. 

A Texas hospital has taken a brain dead woman off of artificial life support in fulfillment of a court order.  It ends the two-month legal battle of Marlise Munoz’s family to have her pronounced dead.  Munoz was pregnant, but tests revealed that the fetus was severely damaged.  The hospital previously claimed it couldn’t cut off artificial life support because Texas’ strict anti-Abortion Rights laws prevented them from doing so.

What we’ve learned about the gunman who killed two people at a shopping mall outside the American capital Washington, DC is this – we know nothing.  19-year old Darion Marcus Aguilar’s friends said he was a normal kid; he bought the 12-gauge Mossburg shotgun legally (because kids can buy guns in America); and cops don’t know why the skating enthusiast killed the two employees in a skaters’ shop in the Mall of Columbia in Maryland. 

More than a hundred people were arrested in clashes after a rally against the World Cup in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  The 2,500 demonstrators say they would rather the millions and millions of dollars spent had been directed to necessities, like education and health care, transportation and housing.