A legendary Olympian is making a dramatic change – The Chilean volcano causes flight troubles and buries towns in ash – The world marks Anzac day – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

American Olympic track and field star Bruce Jenner has come out as transgender.  Speaking to ABC News journalist Dianne Sawyer, Jenner said, “For all intents and purposes, I’m a woman.”  She added, “My brain is much more female than it is male,” and, “It’s hard for people to understand that, but that’s what my soul is.”  This has been kind of an open secret around Los Angeles and Beverly Hills where Jenner lives, and has frequently been photographed with feminine manicures and accessories.  Referred to as “the world’s greatest athlete” in the 1970s, Jenner won Gold for the USA in the 1975 Pan American Games and again in 1976 in the Olympics in Montreal.

Italian police arrested ten people suspected of plotting attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they had all hailed from.  The group also at one point plotted an attack against the previous Pope Benedict XVI, but never carried it out.  For years, Italian authorities have feared a possible attack by militants in St. Peter’s Square and have increased security there.

Australia and New Zealand held dawn ceremonies at Gallipoli, and more remembrances will be held throughout the day to mark 100 years since Anzac troops landed on the Turkish peninsula.  More than 11,400 from Australia and New Zealand were killed in the fighting that followed.  Back in Canberra, Australian Chief of Army David Morrison said, “They loved and were loved in return, were prepared to fight for their beliefs, were, like us, prey to fears and human despair,” adding, “It makes their sacrifice and their capacity to endure real despite the passage of time.”

Armenia on Friday marked 100 years since the genocide of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.  Turkey denies that the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 during the height of World War One constitutes genocide.  But more and more nations are recognizing it as just that – Germany is now the latest to use the word “genocide” to describe Turkey’s mass killing a century ago.

A Qantas Flight had to turn back to Sydney because of volcanic ash in the sky at its planned destination, Santiago, Chile.  People in Chile and especially downwind in Argentina are being warned to prepare for a possible third blast from the Calbuco Volcano, which spectacularly woke up on Wednesday after a 50-year nap.  A tourist hiking in the mountains caught the moment of eruption on mobile video. 

Authorities in Japan closed off a children’s playground in central Tokyo after very large amounts of radiation were detected. One area of the park registered 480 microsieverts per hour – that’s nearly half the recommended annual limit of exposure.  It’s also 20 times higher than measured in Okuma town, which is only 20 kilometers from the radiation spewing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  Tokyo is 225 kilometers from the site of the 2011 triple meltdown.

Tokyo police arrested a man for flying that drone helicopter onto the roof of the prime minister’s residence earlier in the week.  40-year old Yasuo Yamamoto said that he was protesting the government’s attempts to restart the nuclear power industry.  The drone was carrying a plastic bottle filled with sand from Fukushima prefecture, and did test positive for trace amounts of Cesium.  The prime minister was out of the country when all of this went down.