A crowded Boeing 777 cartwheeled and burned at the San Francisco airport, and officials are worried the death toll will rise; A small town is nearly wiped out from an oil tanker train derailment; Islamist radicals murder children and teachers in a raid on a school:  That and a lot more awaits you in this morning’s CareerSpot World News Briefs:

At least two people are dead and more than 70 are hurt in the crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport in Northern California.  Witnesses told American TV networks that Asiana Flight 214’s tail end was too low as it came in from over the bay, and clipped the seawall at the beginning of the runway.  The tail broke off and the 777 cartwheeled down the runway in flames before resting off of the runway in the grass.  The inflatable chutes deployed and a good number of the 307 people were able to get off, while flames engulfed the cabin.  However, several who assembled inside the terminal appeared to suffer no injury at all.  Check out this nonchalant social media update from a passenger.  Later in the day, the picture seemed to darken again when officials revealed that dozens of passengers were missing.  They are determining if those people merely walked off and checked into hotels or whatever, or were trapped aboard the plane.

Environmentalists say a deadly oil tanker train explosion in Quebec, Canada was avoidable.  The train derailed in the tiny lakeside town of Lac-Megantic and at least 4 tankers exploded, destroying much of the town and sending fireballs into the air.  A thousand people were evacuated; one person is confirmed dead but 60 people are still missing.  Greenpeace Canada points out the majority of the cars being used for hauling crude are "DOT-111" tank cars, which the government says are prone to spill their contents during derailments and other impacts.

Thirty people are dead in a massacre in a school in northern Nigeria.  Suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed the school and dormitory while the kids were asleep, shooting children and teachers, and burning the buildings.  Several children were burned alive.  One boy says the gunmen deliberately shot him in his writing hand, and many children lost fingers in the attack.  Boko Haram is opposed to all western forms of education; its name means “Western education is sacrilege”.

Pre-election violence in Mexico is said to be the worst in years.  At least 6 candidates have been murdered since February.  Party and campaign officials have also been assaulted, their family members targeted and sometimes killed as well.  Most of the killings are taking place in rural and frontier areas which are often under the control of the drug gangs.  Aside for being a tragedy for Mexico, it’s an embarrassment for President Enrique Pena Nieto, who had promised to control violence.

Airlines are canceling more flights from Mexico because of the eruption of the Popocatepetl volcano, which is sending tons of ash and dust into the air.  It’s affecting flight paths from Mexico to the central and eastern United States.

Nobel prize-winning diplomat Mohammed ElBaradei is in negotiations to become Egypt’s new Prime Minister, for acting president Adly Mansour and the generals who deposed Mohammed Morsi last week.  ElBaradei is the former heard of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency, and would provide a respectable face for other nations that have been reticent to accept the military dumping a democratically elected (but really, really unpopular) president.

Until the very end of his bumpy year in office, deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi spurned deals to give up power in exchange for keeping his job and avoiding military intervention.  A New York Times report said Morsi’s bravado and fatalistic language reflected his desire to avoid appearing to be “weak”.  In the end, the military deposed and detained him.  The report also suggests the US had a deeper role in the military’s actions than previously disclosed.

North and South Korean negotiators sat down in Panmunjom for talks on reopening the Kaesong Industrial Region, a factory complex run by both governments.  It’s a major development towards calming the Korean peninsula, which has seen too much military drama this year.

Colombian police say they have caught the alleged boss of Italy's Calabrian mafia.  Roberto Pannunzi is a fugitive from a drug-trafficking conviction who police say was importing two tons of cocaine from South American to Italy every month.