Dozens of students are killed in Nigeria  – Moscow smells like farts – Italy overturns an impossible conviction – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber disguised in school uniform killed 47 students in northeast Nigeria.  The blast ripped through an all-boys school in Potiskum just as students gathered for morning assembly.  Boko Haram’s name translates roughly as “Western education is Forbidden”, and the terrorists have staged numerous attacks on school in the past, including the abduction of mor than 200 girls from their board school in Chibok earlier this year.

A federal jury in Chicago convicted a 67-year old activist of immigration fraud for failing to disclose her arrest and conviction in a 1969 Jerusalem supermarket bombing that killed two people.  Rasmieh Yousef Odeh says her convictions in Israel were based on confessions coerced through torture, evidence that the judge refused to allow in the trial.  She’s appealing, but faces up to ten years in prison and deportation if that fails.

Venezuela will educate 1,000 Palestinians to become doctors, engineers, and architects through the country’s new Yasser Arafat Scholarship program.  President Nicolas Maduro decided to greatly expand the scholarship after seeing 119 Palestinian students arrive in Venezuela and dance with joy at the airport. 

CNN will stop broadcasting in Russia by year’s end.  It’s because of new laws restricting foreign ownership of mass media to 20 per cent.  But this also comes against the backdrop of worsening relations between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s involvement in Ukraine.  CNN’s Moscow bureau will remain open.

Residents of Moscow are being urged to stay indoors because of a noxious gas spreading through the city.  The government blames a problem at an oil refinery, but the oil company reports no problems.  The source may be unclear, but the smell is unmistakable:  An intense, rotten egg odor that is associated with highly toxic hydrogen sulphide.  It’s been detected around Parliament and through the south and east portions of the Russian capital.

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An Italian appeals court overturned guilty verdicts the guilty verdicts against seven scientists convicted of failing to predict the killer 2009 L’Aquila Earthquakes – something that scientifically cannot be done.  The men had been sentenced to prison terms of up to six years, before the verdicts were overturned.  The verdict caused shock and outrage among reasonable people, with some saying that science itself had been put on trial.  309 people died in that earthquake.

A slow moving lava flow has finally destroyed a home on Hawaii’s big island, after spending months threatening Pahoa Town.  The residents of the home that burned had long since evacuated, and many others are leaving or planning to leave now that the danger is urgent. 

A big sinkhole opened up in front of a Holiday, Florida home, and the resident’s car fell in.  The hole seems to be getting bigger and other homes are in danger.