Islamic State says it carried out the horrific suicide bombings that killed 137 people at a mosque – The UN now says it causes cancer and it might be all over your garden  – Hundreds of students are suspended in the weirdest cheating scandal you can imagine – A wrongly convicted man wins an amazing settlement – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The terrorists of Islamic State are claiming credit for the suicide bombings that killed at least 137 people in Yemen.  More than 350 are injured.  One bomber detonated a suicide device insider the Badr Mosque, a Shiite Muslim mosque in the capital Sana’a (Warning: gruesome, disturbing video).  A second terrorist set off a device outside at the gates, as Shiites ran out.  Two more bombers were believed to be involved.  The Shiite Houthi tribe took over most of northern Yemen last year and drove the president from office last month.  But both Islamic State and al Qaeda considers them to be polytheist heretics, meaning the country is likely hurtling towards civil war.

Troops from Niger and Chad liberating a town from Boko Haram made a grisly discovery:  On the outskirts of Damasak town, they found a pile of at least 70 desiccated human bodies, presumably victims of the terrorists’ insane interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.  Many of had their throats slits while some had been decapitated.  Boko Haram’s violence in northeast Nigeria has killed more than 15,500 people since 2012.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered an investigation into the murder and burning of a 27-year old mentally ill woman accused of setting a Koran alight (warning, disturbing video).  It didn’t happen in the boondocks or some obscure mountain pass, it happened in downtown Kabul outside a mosque.  “No individual is allowed to make oneself a judge and use violence to punish others in degrading manners,” went the statement from Ghani’s office.

The Janta Express train derailed in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing at least 34 people near Barchhrawan, about 500 kilometers southeast of New Delhi.  One coach appeared to have accordioned and several went off the rails.  Dozens of people are injured.

Enjoy this unbelievable video of flagrant, shameless, feckless cheating at a during high school exams in India.  Parents literally climbed the walls of a school in Hajipur, Bihar to hand off cheat-sheets to their kids taking important placement exams inside.  After this video got out, 600 students were expelled.  The tests directly influence the teens ability to get into university later on, but COME ON.

The UN World Health Organization says the world’s most popular weed killer can “probably” cause cancer.  WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer says the Monsanto herbicide Roundup contains the active ingredient glyphosate, which was “classified as probably carcinogenic to humans”.  It also says there is limited evidence linking glyphosate to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

France just approved a law that will greatly expand the use of solar power.  Rooftops on new buildings built in commercial zones must either be partially covered in plants or solar panels.  Covering roofs reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the top, so less energy is used to cool the building.  In winter, so-called Green Roofs act as insulation, keeping maintaining more heat inside.  And should developers go with plants, it will retain more rainwater, reduce runoff, and give birds a place to next.  All around, a great idea.

Former Hip Hop music mogul Suge Knight collapsed in court as the judge in his murder case set his bail at US$25 Million.  Suge doesn’t have that.  It’s doubtful he had that much cash back in his heyday.  Suge pleaded not guilty to a hit-and-run in February that left one man dead and another hospitalized in Compton, California. 

In the largest wrongful-conviction settlement involving a single person in the United States, Juan Rivera, Jr. will get US$20 Million – a million dollars for every year the innocent man spent in prison for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.  DNA evidence cleared Rivera and pointed to another suspect.  The 42-year old said, “There’s no amount of money they could give me to justify 20 years, but they decided to give me 20 million and I’m happy with that.”  Why did Lake County officials offer such an astronomical settlement?  They realized that wrong conviction cases that have gone to trial have wound up paying up even more – and one of America’s wealthiest areas couldn’t afford that.

US First Lady Michelle Obama checks out some traditional Taiko drumming at Kyoto, Japan’s Heian Shrine and takes in the sights at Kiyomizudera up in the east hills.

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Tampa, Florida’s Lowry Zoo welcomes an endangered Clouded Leopard cub.