Hello, Australia! – A giant Antarctic Ice Shelf is on the verge of breaking free – A stunning twist in the Amtrak train crash investigation – A Matador can’t seem to learn that when he messes with the bull, he gets the horns.  And he does.  Badly.  – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A US federal jury in Massachusetts concluded that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death by lethal injection for killing three people and injuring 260.  That signals the start of a lengthy legal process of appeals that could take more than a decade before any final decision is rendered.  Self-styled Islamist Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan detonated two improvised explosives near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.  Tamerlan died after a shoot out with police in the ensuing manhunt.

The train that derailed in Philadelphia earlier this week killing eight people might have been struck with a bullet or other object hit it before it crashed.  US investigators announced that the FBI has been brought in on the case.  An assistant conductor overheard the engineer talking over the radio with the engineer of another train in the area – the second conductor reported that his train had been struck by an object, and Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian said the same thing happened to his train.  The investigators say the Amtrak passenger train’s windshield had a breakage pattern consistent with being hit by an object.  Bostian says he can’t remember the crash.

NASA is warning that Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf is just a few years from disintegration.  The US space agency released a study that forecasts a widening rift in the shelf will break apart around the year 2020.  Once that happens, glaciers that were held in place by the shelf will slip into the sea, accelerating rising sea levels. 

Islamic State has seized the western Iraqi city of Ramadi, raising its ugly flag above the main government office after attack it with as many as six car bombs.  At least ten Iraqi police officers were killed and 50 were taken prisoner by the militants, rising fears of another IS mass execution.  The US says it is expediting weapons deliveries to Iraq because of the IS gains in Ramadi.

Less than a week until Ireland holds a referendum on legalizing Gay Marriage, one of the country’s highest-profile journalists has come out.  TV3 political editor Ursula Harrigan explained how she was taught to hate herself in the repressive era of the 1970s.  “For me, there was no first kiss; no engagement party; no wedding.  And up until a short time ago no hope of any of these things,” the 54-year old wrote in the Irish Times.  Ireland will become the first country to hold a referendum on gay marriage on 22 May.

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel is the first leader of a European Union nation to enter into a same-sex marriage.  42-year old Bettel and his architect Gauthier Destenay wed in a simple ceremony at the Luxembourg town hall.  The tiny country approved same-sex marriage in June 2014 and the first weddings took place on 1 January 2015.

More than 100,000 Burundians are on the move because of the political unrest in the capital, and Tanzania is shouldering most of the refugee burden.  A coup attempt failed and three rebel leaders have been arrested.  But the main coup leader Major General Godefroid Niyombare has not been seen and could still be on the lam.  President Pierre Nkurunziza thanked the military for mostly staying loyal.  But street protests against Nkurunziza’s plans to run for the third term have resumed.

The effort to recover bodies and wreckage from the crash of a US Marines helicopter in Nepal is resuming on Saturday morning.  Searchers found wreckage in the mountainous, dense forest north of Charikot.  The five US Marines and two Nepalese troops in the UH-1Y Huey Helicopter were taking earthquake aid into hard-to-reach parts of the country when it crashed.  None are believed to have survived.

A Spanish Matador is recovering after being gored in the jugular by a bull who really didn’t want to be killed in a public ring for sport.  Saul Jimenez Fortes was in a grave condition, upgraded to serious.  He was performing in the ring at the San Isidro bullfighting festival when the bull fought back.  Unfortunately, once Jimenez Fortes was carried out another torero killed the bull.  This is the second consecutive year that Jimenez Fortes was badly hurt.  Last year, the festival was cancelled because a bull gored him and two other matadors.