Brazil advances without a star player – Rolf’s going to prison – What are grapes worth in Japan?  You’re probably not thinking of a high enough number.. – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Brazil forward Neymar is out of the World Cup with a back injury, delivered by the knee of Colombia’s Juan Zuniga. Team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar says, “It’s not serious in the sense that it doesn’t need surgery, but he’ll need to immobilize it to recover.”  Neymar scored four of Brazil’s goals in this World Cup.

Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years and eight months in prison for molesting young girls.  The judge said the 84-year old former entertainer had shown “no remorse” before, during his trial, or after being found guilty earlier this week of twelve indecent assaults against four girls – including one aged just seven or eight.  Well more than a dozen women have come forward to say they, too, were abused by Rolf Harris, and there could be more investigations while he’s in prison.

Another British judge sentenced Andy Coulson to 18 months in jail.  He’s the former spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron and ex-editor of the Rupert Murdoch tabloid news of the World who was convicted of directing the hacking of cell phones belonging to celebrities, royals, and murder victims.  Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is lambasting Cameron for bringing a “criminal into the heart of Downing Street”.

Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a murdered Palestinian teenager Mohammad Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem.  Israeli police haven’t established a motive, but Palestinians widely believe the 17-year old was murdered in revenge for the killings of three Israeli teens whose bodies were found earlier in the week.  Before and after the funeral, hundreds of Palestinian youths clashed with police, throwing rocks and concrete chunks. 

Nigeria’s military arrested three women for recruiting female members to Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist group responsible for thousands of deaths in the past few years.  Boko Haram has been trying to get women more involved in its activities, and last month, put up a female suicide bomber to attack a military barracks.  Boko Haram is still holding more than 200 schoolgirls it captured in April in the town of Chibok in Borno state.

French police arrested a woman for allegedly stabbing her child’s teacher to death in front of the children on the last day before summer break.  The 47-year old was apparently well-known to police before the attack for alleged child neglect.  Parental aggression towards teachers is on the rise in France, with a report from earlier this year revealing that almost half of school heads in elementary schools and kindergartens had faced verbal attacks from parents.  A small minority of these have also faced physical assault.

Germany summoned the US Ambassador to demand a “swift clarification”, following the arrest of a German intelligence agent for reportedly spying for the United States.  Berlin has not confirmed the specifics nor named the agent.  But the German media reports the man was originally arrested on suspicion of making contact with Russian intelligence, but then confessed he was in fact spying for the Americans.  Berlin is still chafing after learning from the Snowden Documents that the US National Security Agency (NSA) was monitoring Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone and carrying out mass surveillance of German citizens.

Three men have been rescued from a collapsed mine in Honduras, while eight are still missing.  The men were seriously dehydrated, and one had a broken leg.  The illegal gold mine caved in on Wednesday.

China’s President Xi Jinping is blasting Japan’s history of military aggression, days after Tokyo moved to change its constitution to scrap the ban on military excursions.  Conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe maintains that Japan can engage in collective self-defense with its allies.  On his visit to Seoul, Xi said Tokyo has failed to atone for World War II and that China and South Korea share concerns over Tokyo’s new assertiveness.

American billionaire and conservative political bankroller Richard Mellon Scaife is dead at age 82.  Largely unknown to most, the reclusive banker was thrust into the spotlight in the 1990s when he was identified by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton as the ringleader of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” to harass her and President Bill Clinton.  During the 1970s and ‘80s, he funded political operations to reverse the successful Liberal policies of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that saved America from the worldwide depression and help lead the allies to victory in World War II.

Someone just paid A$5,755 for a box of grapes in Japan.  They’re really, really nice grapes.