A child is arrested for a horrific murder – Britain’s tap water might soon become flammable – Spain’s elites double their gluttony as the country’s economy and social fabric is ravaged by “austerity” – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Police near Nagasaki, Japan arrested a 15-year old girl for allegedly killing, beheading, and dismembering a 15-year old classmate.  The victim Aiwa Matsuo was visiting the suspect in her apartment – separate from the family home – when the other girl bludgeoned her and then went to work with a large kitchen knife.  Police say the suspect admitted the crime but gave no reason for the attack.  Japanese news reports say friends and acquaintances describe the suspect as intelligent, with “emotional ups and downs”.

Pope Francis has a request to the warring parties in Gaza and Ukraine:  “I ask you with all my heart, stop please.”  In his weekly address from the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff said his concerns are with those “who are deprived of the hope of a worthwhile life, of a future – Dead children, injured children, mutilated children, orphaned children, children whose toys are things left over from war, children who can't smile any more.”

South Sudan is facing the worst food crisis in the world. The UN and its Children’s fund UNICEF say about one third of the population – four million people – are affected, because of the chaos caused by the civil war..  And 50,000 children might die if the international community doesn’t step up and help.  Nearly one million children under the age of five in South Sudan will require treatment for acute malnutrition in 2014, according to aid workers. 

A second American has contracted the Ebola Virus while working to prevent its spread in western Africa.  And here’s the scary part:  Nancy Writebol isn’t even a healthcare worker – she and her husband David left their careers in the US to work on the administrative end of a hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia.  It’s the same hospital where 33-year old American Dr. Kent Brantly tested positive for Ebola.

Meanwhile, Dr. Samuel Brisbane is the first Liberian doctor to die of Ebola in the current outbreak, which has killed more than 670 people in four West African countries – 129 in Liberia alone.  A Ugandan doctor working in Liberia died earlier this month, and Sierra Leone’s top doctor combating the Ebola outbreak is now fighting for his life.  Healthcare workers are the most at risk of catching Ebola, because it is easily spread via infected bodily fluids.  There’s no vaccination and no cure.

Venezuela says a top official who was arrested in Aruba on a US drug warrant will not be extradited north, and instead has returned home to Caracas.  Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said the Netherlands considers Hugo Carvajal a diplomat and that his detention Wednesday violated international treaties.  Local authorities in Aruba claimed that Carvajal’s diplomatic credential hadn’t yet been approved, and the arrested was valid, but they have been overruled.  Carvajal was military intelligence chief under the late Hugo Chavez.

Britain’s Tory government will soon except bids from big energy companies to extract shale gas.  That’s going to involve fracking, which critics say poisons ground water supplies and has been proven to cause earthquakes in places where earthquakes don’t usually happen.  PM David Cameron earlier this month removed the most influential environmental voices from his cabinet.

Spain’s Ministry of Defense has doubled its budget for food served upon the seven planes that carry the royals, ministers, and other senior bureaucrats.  We’re talking peeled seasonal fruit, sirloin steak, Segovia suckling pig, and Bilbao sea bass, among other goodies.  Spain’s unemployment rate last month was 24.5 percent – that’s actually considered an improvement – and the number doubles among young people.  The conservative government has used the economic crisis to force austerity on the people, slashing at things like health and education while paying interest to international banks.  It’s led to massive public sector job losses, rampant foreclosures, and an appalling spike in the suicide rate.  But at least the elites can eat Segovia suckling pig on airplane rides.