Hello Australia!! - South Africa's president attempts to survive a massive misuse of public funds scandal - The surviving Paris terrorist seems to be claiming he actually saved lives?  Really? - Google's GMail April Fool's Day prank goes bad, quickly - and more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

South African President Jacob Zuma has addressed his nation to apologize for the scandal over public funds used to pay for posh upgrades to his home compound.  "The matter has caused a lot of frustration and confusion, for which I apologize," said President Zuma, who agreed to abide by a Constitutional Court ruling telling him to pay back the cost of a swimming pool and personal amphitheater.  He claims he acted "in good faith" and "never knowingly and deliberately set out to violate the constitution".  Opponents had hoped he would use the address to announce his resignation, and were disappointed. 

Brazil arrested the world's richest banker Joseph Safra in an alleged scheme to reduce or waive fines on back taxes by paying US$4 Million in bribes to Brazilian officials.

Hopes are fading for anyone still trapped under the collapsed highway bridge under construction that came down on a busy street in Kolkata, India.  Officials detained at least five officials with the construction company for questioning.

A woman has died of Ebola in Liberia, days after the UN World Health Organization declared the killer virus is no longer a global health threat.  The 30-year old died in the capital Monrovia, but Liberia has dispatched health care workers to the woman's hometown to determine the reach of the infection.  Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have each had sporadic cases of the disease after being declared Ebola-free; Guinea reported several infections in the past few weeks.  More than 11,300 died in the West African Ebola Epidemic, and many thousands more who survived are dealing with the after-effects of the debilitating viral infection.

Amnesty International released a pair of scathing reports:  First, the rights group is blasting Qatar after its investigation found massive and widespread labor abuse of international workers brought in to construct 2022 World Cup venues and facilities, including: forced labor; squalid camps; low pay and outright wage theft.  Qatar denies wrongdoing.

Amnesty Int'l also accuses Turkey of forcibly repatriating thousands of Syrian war refugees; about a hundred of women, men, and children are sent back into the hellscape on a daily basis.  "The inhumanity and scale of the returns is truly shocking; Turkey should stop them immediately," said Amnesty's John Dalhuisen, who says the deal reached with the EU and Turkey to stop the northward flow of war refugees is actually worse that it appears:  "Far from pressuring Turkey to improve the protection it offers Syrian refugees, the EU is in fact incentivizing the opposite," he said.

There would have been even more than the 130 people killed in last November's terrorist attacks in Paris, had the surviving attacker Salah Abdeslam not changed his mind and abandoned the plan.  That comes from Salah's brother Mohamed in an interview with France's BFM-TV network after visiting the terror suspect in a Belgian prison cell.  Belgium will soon extradite Abdeslam to France to face charged from the 13 November attacks.

Belgium's plans to reopen the airport after the 22 March bombings hit a snag when airport police walked off the job in a dispute over security concerns.  "We are on strike because of what happened on 22 March - we cannot continue as if this day has not happened," said Vincent Gilles of the police union.  "The police feel the security measures put in place by the airport company are insufficient for those who work and use the airport," he added.  The union wants travelers to go through metal detectors, body scanners and x-ray machines before they're allowed in the terminals.  The airport will reopen on Sunday.

Police charged an Italian nurse with killed 13 patients with drug overdoses.  They say they had been watching the 55-year old woman for some time while she worked in the anesthesia and intensive care unit at a hospital in the small coastal town of Piombino in Tuscany.  As bad as this sounds, this isn't even Italy's first brush with this:  Earlier this month, a court convicted 44-year old nurse Daniele Poggiali of Ravenna of murdering a 78-year old patient with a lethal injection.  She's suspected of murdering more than 30 people this way, and photos emerged of Poggliali posing next to corpses giving the thumbs-up sign and smiling.

Hans-Dietrich Gensche, who served as Foreign Minister in West Germany and reunified Germany in the 1970s through the '90s is dead at age 89.  He's the guy who cut through all of the Cold War crap and very early on recognized the potential of rising Soviet official Mikhail Gorbachev, establishing ties that would lead to the end of the Cold War and reunification of Germany.

Google thought it would be hilarious to add a new feature to the GMail accounts of 900 million people, and barely tell them, as an April Fool's Day prank.  They added an extra "send" button which - unbeknownst to many people - added a cartoon gif of a "Minion" from the animated movies doing a mic drop, and then muted the conversation.  People who thought they were merely pressing the "send" button reported losing jobs and alienating business and personal contacts by sending what were supposed serious emails that were pretty much vandalized with the cartoon childishness.  Imagine announcing a loved one's funeral this way, or losing an important contract you'd been working on for weeks or months.  Yep.  Google issued a grovelling apology.