India’s incoming PM makes a shocking offer – Italy demands help with almost 1,000 immigrants in two days – The Fast, The Furious, and The Expensive – Apparently, no one in charge in Iran has ever seen “Footloose” – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Muslim separatists in far northwestern China crashed two cars into a crowded market street and set off several explosions. The official state run news agency Xinhua says that “unknown number of people were killed and injured” in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province.  Ethnic Uighurs are trying to break off from China to form a country they refer to as “East Turkistan”.

India’s incoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif to attend his swearing-in ceremony next week.  The peacemaking move is all the more unusual given Modi’s reputation as a Hindu Nationalist.  Sharif has never made an official visit to India and it’s not clear if he’ll attend.  The two countries traded shots along the contested border in Kashmir last year.

Six people who were arrested in Iran for dancing in a YouTube video to Pharrell Williams' song “Happy” have been freed.  But the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said the director of the video is still being held.  Apparently.  Happiness is still outlawed in ultra-conservative Iran, and police accused the young people of being immodest and decadent and offending public morals and  blah blah blah.  But President Hassan Rouhani disagreed, tweeting “#Happiness is our people’s right.  We shouldn’t be too hard on behaviors caused by joy.”  And from beneath an oversized hat, Pharrell Williams also criticized the arrests.

A court in Egypt has sentenced 86-year old former president Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison for embezzling public funds.  His two sons each got four years.  Mubarak still faces retrial on charges of abusing power and conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him to resign.

About 170 children are among the nearly 1,000 immigrants rescued by the Italian Navy earlier this week.  Advocates are alarmed by the increase in the number of unaccompanied minors among the asylum seekers.  There’s been an overall increase in boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Africa because Libya’s coast is largely unpatrolled after the fall of dictator Moammar Kaddafi.  Italy is renewing calls to its northern European neighbors to pitch in and help.

France is rushing to reconfigure 1,000 platforms train stations across the country, because the train operator SNCF ordered 2,000 new trains that won’t fit.  Too big.  And apparently, it was the national rail authority that provided SNCF with the wrong dimensions.  It’s an embarrassing blunder, but at a cost of way over A$22 Billion, it’s cheaper to make the platforms smaller. 

Reset your eBay password!  The US-based global auction site says a database had been hacked between late February and early March, and had contained encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.  The firm also owns PayPal, but says no financial data from either site was lost.

Universal Studios is wrangling for a record-shattering insurance US$50 Million claim payout, because of the untimely death of star Paul Walker, who was killed in a car wreck with a friend last year.  The Fireman’s Fund insurance company doesn’t want to do it, but many observers believe the biggest payout in Hollywood history will go through.  Universal is putting the claim in because t he cost of making “Fast and Furious 7” has soared past US$250 Million.  Walker’s remaining scenes are being shot with three separate body doubles, including two of his brothers – that means every scene with Walker’s doubles get shot three times, as opposed to once.