Tough times ahead at the flying Kangaroo – An Aussie actor is hurt in Thailand – Uganda gets its first taste of the international community’s distaste for its draconian anti-LGBT law – and a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

Qantas says it will cut 5,000 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce as part of a plan to slash costs by A$2 billion over the next three years.  The troubled carrier will also sell older jets and reduce capital spending after reporting a first-half loss before tax of A$252 million, and amid growing competition in both international and domestic operations.

Oz native and Actor Sullivan Stapleton has been seriously injured in Bangkok.  The 36-year old Melbournian was exploring the Asian city during his off time from the TV series “Strike Back” which was filming in Thailand.  Details of the injury are not known, but he’s reportedly going to need six months to recover. 

US Secretary of State John Kerry is likening Uganda’s new anti-gay law to anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa.  The legislation imposes harsh penalties for homosexuality, including life in prison.  As the US and other nations consider their response, the financial markets are already punishing Uganda – the Ugandan Shilling plunged 2.5 percent since the president signed the law, the biggest currency drop in the world – even worse than Ukraine.

The killers of British Soldier Lee Rigby in London last year have been sentenced.  Michael Adebolajo has been given a whole-life term and Michael Adebowale has been jailed for a minimum of 45 years.  The two British-born Muslim converts ran over Rigby with a car and stabbed him to death, claiming Islamist motives as they spoke to witnesses recording the spectacle with mobile phone cameras.

A US federal court is ordering Google to remove a crude anti-Islam film from its YouTube service.  The film, which denounces the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud and worse, sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world and was linked to the attack on the US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya in which four Americans including the Ambassador were killed.  The court ruling didn’t involve the content, but rather a copyright issue – the filmmakers tricked the cast, who didn’t know they were making an anti-Islamic film.

India’s Navy chief Admiral Devender Kumar Joshi resigned to take ownership of the “moral responsibility” for seven warship and submarine accidents over the last six months.  The latest mishap was on board the submarine INS Sindhuratna off Mumbai.  Two officers are feared dead and seven sailors are hurt.  The worst was last August, when an internal explosion and fire killed 18 sailors on the INS Sindhurakshak.

Former Pope Benedict XVI insists he was not pressured to step down.  The 86-year old Pontiff Emeritus sent a letter to an Italian journalist insisting he became the first Pope to resign in 500 years because of health concerns – and that’s it.  Some commentators have suggested that the 2012 “Vatileaks” scandal forced Benedict’s resignation.

The Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia died on Wednesday in Mexico.  He was 66.  Paco fused the traditional music with pop, rock, and jazz, winning new audiences along the journey.