Hello, Australia! – Australians are injured in a Ferry Boat explosion – Climbers are trapped on a Malaysian mountain by an earthquake – Pakistan secretly acquits people accused of shooting Malala – The last moment before a killer Lion attack is caught on camera – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Four Australian Women were among 19 people hurt when the engine exploded on a passenger ferry to Bali.  This happened thirty minutes out of Lombok Island en route to the Indonesian tourist hot spot.  A fuel line burst, causing the explosion.  Fire spread through parts of the boat with 129 passengers on board. 

The Eastern Star passenger ship has been fully lifted up from the Yangtze River, but the numbers regarding the human toll haven’t changed significantly:  14 survivors from Monday’s capsizing, and now 97 people are confirmed dead.  But there were 458 people on board, and on the banks of the Yangtze relatives are growing angrier and demanding answers.  That’s feeding the authoritarian government’s desire to clamp down and maintain order at the tragic scene.

A group of climbers are trying to make their way down from Malaysia’s Mount Kinabalu after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake stranded some 137 people high on the mountain’s slopes.  Sabah state tourism minister Masidi Manjun tweeted that there had been fatalities, and details would be forthcoming.  Initial attempts to rescue the climbers yesterday had to be abandoned because of bad weather. 

Pakistan secretly acquitted eight of the ten men charged in for the 2012 shooting of future Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai.  Back in April, Pakistan told the world that all ten defendants had been tried, convicted, and sentenced.  However, police are now admitting that the earlier reports were not true.  While two were sentenced to prison, there was a lack of evidence to convicted the rest.  The other eight were not set free, however – they were still being held by Pakistani authorities for other alleged crimes. 

A photo has emerged, purportedly taken by a fellow tourist the moment just before a lioness in a South African game park savaged and killed 29-year old American Katherine Chappell. It’s not at all gruesome or gory, but consider the content before you click.

A cop was driving down the street in Sheridan, Colorado when a massive sinkhole opened up, swallowing his ute!  The officer was okay.

One of Saddam Hussein’s top deputies died in prison.  Tariq Aziz was 79-years old.  He served as foreign minister and deputy prime minister and was a close adviser to the former leader right up until Baghdad fell to US troops in the second Gulf War in 2003.

Copilot Andreas Lubitz reached out to several doctors for some unknown problem in the days and weeks before he crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 into the French Alps, killing all 150 on board.  Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin will discuss the new revelations with victims’ families next week.  Many are already upset because the bodies of loved ones on the plane have not been released during the investigation of the 24 March disaster.  Investigators on Friday informed the first 30 families that the bodies will soon be repatriated.  But many more will still have to wait to receive remains or their loved ones’ personal items.

The European Court of Human Rights is upholding a French court’s decision to allow a paralyzed man to be taken off life support.  39-year old Vincent Lambert has been in a coma for seven years following the motorcycle crash that left him a tetraplegic. 

The G7 Summit takes place tomorrow at the Castle of Elmau in Germany’s Bavaria region.  Hundreds of anti-poverty campaigners have set-up camp in a nearby resort, but 22,000 cops are deployed to keep then a few kilometers away.  Next week, representatives of the most powerful nations and multinational corporate entities will gather at the Interalpen Hotel in eastern Austria – again in a heavily wooded, mountainous resort region where thousands of cops will keep everyone else out.  There will be barely any whisper of this in any English-language media, except for the conspiracy theory crackpot fringe.

Will secular Turkey survive this weekend’s elections?  That is the fear of supporters of Democracy.  The ruling – and ironically named – Justice and Development party (AKP) could wind up with a parliamentary supermajority, delivering unprecedented power into the hands of autocratic billionaire Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who critics say has made a career out of dismantling the secular republic of Attaturk.  Meanwhile, two were killed in an explosion at a Kurdish political rally.  If the Kurds are able to get ten percent of the vote, it could block the AKP’s supermajority.

Fast and Furious 8: Syria Drift.  Syria-ously?  Who has time for this in the middle of a war?