This could be Schapelle Corby’s last weekend in jail – A shark mauls a surfer – The ICC is looking at potential War Crimes prosecutions in the Central African Republic – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World news Briefs.

There’s still some paperwork to be finished before Schapelle Corby will be released from an Indonesian prison and paroled to her sister’s home in Bali.  36-year old Corby was was arrested in 2004 for smuggling 4.2 kilograms of cannabis into Bali and spent nearly a decade in prison.  Prison officials say they can’t release her without the original order announced by the justice minister on Friday – no faxes or copies.

A Kiwi surfer was mauled by a shark last night near at Porpoise Bay near Curio Bay on the south shore.  The surfer suffered at least three bites and actually punched the beast several times to convince it to go away.  He was taken to hospital in serious condition.  Locals say it’s the first time they’ve ever heard of a shark in those waters.

More than 80 residents of the besieged city of Homs were evacuated as the Syrian military and rebels maintained a three-day cease-fire to allow the elderly, sick, and weak to leave and to get food aid in.  These people have been living rough for three years in some cases, and it showed as they devoured MREs provided to them.  More than 130,000 people have died in the Syrian Civil War.

The International Criminal Court is opening an investigation into possible war crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic.  Prosecutors say allegations included alleged killings and acts of rape and sexual slavery, which appeared to have been singled out on religious grounds.  It was in March last year that minority Muslim insurgents routed the government, plunging the country into lawlessness.

A Ukrainian man claimed to have a bomb and ordered a Turkey-bound flight to Sochi, Russia, as the Winter Olympics were kicking off on Friday.  But the pilot tricked him, landed in Istanbul. After a four-hour standoff on a plane full of passengers, authorities took the man into custody.  He had no bomb, and there are conflicting reports on whether he was drunk or on tweaked on amphetamines or similar drug.

Speaking of drugs, Toronto’s crack-smoking buffoon of a mayor Rob Ford demanded that the Rainbow Flag of LGBT pride be lowered from outside city hall - and then he was overruled.  The Rainbow Flag was hoisted as a response to Russia’s idiotic anti-Gay laws. But to Rob Ford’s 1.5 working brain cells, the Olympics are not about “sexual preference” but rather “about being patriotic to your country” (actually, they’re about Athletics, you pathetic dumbass).  And according to Toronto rules, the mayor doesn’t choose which flags fly outside city hall, there’s a protocol officer for that.

Japan assured the US that it would respond calmly to actions by China that have increased tensions between the two Asian powers.  And the US is making clear it is committed to upholding its defense treaty obligations with Japan including in the East China Sea.  Foreign ministers for each country displayed a unified front in Washington, as both China’s expansionist policies and Japan’s increasing nationalism chafe.

North Korea has transferred an American citizen from hospital back to a labor camp.  Kenneth Bae is being held for unspecified crimes against the hermit state, though some believe it involves religious evangelism.  It comes against the backdrop of impending US-South Korean military exercises, an annual event that prompts colorful and bombastic threats from Pyongyang, as well as diplomatic retaliation.

At least 13 people have been killed and more than 30 others injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in the northern Philippines.  It happened in Bontoc, 280 kilometers north of Manilla.  One of those killed was Arvin “Tado” Jimenez, a popular comedian and media personality in The Philippines.  It comes less than two months after a similar bus crash in the capital killed 21 people.

A worker was killed at the Arena da Amazonia in Manaus, Brazil – the third worker to be killed at the future World Cup site.  The construction worker was dismantling a crane when a piece came loose and struck his head.  Brazil sports officials say the accident will not further delay the stadium.  Work on five of the twelve venues is lagging far behind schedule, and the opening match is 12 June.

Work on the Panama Canal expansion project is officially stopped, as the construction consortium and canal authorities appear at loggerheads over who will pay for massive cost overruns.  Each side blames the other and 10,000 jobs are at risk.  The new set of locks is supposed to allow container ships three-times the current maximum to traverse the Pacific-to-Atlantic canal.