Nigeria admits vastly underestimating the number of girl kidnapped by a terrorist group – A 16-year old survives a foolhardy stunt that kills most who attempt it – Second thoughts at the top of the world – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Nigerian authorities are admitting the kidnapping of schoolgirls by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram is much worse than it had earlier stated.  230 girls were abducted, and 190 are still unaccounted for.  The Nigerian military has sought to play this down at every turn, going as far as to claim only 90 were taken and most had been rescued – not true.  Boko Haram, which means “western education is forbidden” – is trying to create a breakaway state under draconian Sharia law.

A 16-year old boy is in stable condition after somehow stowing away in the wheel well of a passenger jet at San Jose, California’s airport and riding all the way to Hawaii.  He was unconscious for the five-hour journey, as the plane flew at 12,000 meters where the temperature is as low as -45 degrees Celsius and there’s practically no oxygen.  The FBI says the kid is lucky to be alive.  Fewer than a quarter of the 100 knuckleheads who’ve attempted to hitch free rides in airplane wheel wells since 1947 have survived the stunts.  Area lawmakers are now worried about security at San Jose’s Mineta Airport.

Some climbing expeditions are leaving Mount Everest after last week’s avalanche disaster that killed at least 13 Sherpa mountain guides.  It’s a difficult decision for many, because they sink as much as A$60,000 into planning their climbs.  It’s a lot more difficult for the families of the Sherpas, who held funerals on Monday.  The Sherpa guides are considering a work stoppage because Nepal’s offer of compensation to the families of the dead and missing is less than half of what they were expecting.

MH370:  Nope.  Not yet.

Egypt plans to step-up its opposition to a dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River, which supplies at least 85 percent of the water to the Nile River – Egypt’s primary water source.  The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is about 30 percent complete, and Ethiopia hopes it will live up to its name for the local economy.  But Egypt is already experiencing water shortages, and has begun to lobby the international community for support against a dam it says is a violation of international law and its millenniums-old water rights.

Syria wants to have a presidential “election” on 3 June, a plan dismissed by the United States as a “parody of democracy”.  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says a sham election that reaffirms President Bashar al Assad’s authority will likely torpedo the talks aimed at end Syria’s three-year old civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people.

China says a welding accident caused a nasty fire in a skyscraper in the city of Dalian.  One resident was reportedly trapped near the top of the building, but later rescued by firefighters who extinguished the blaze.

Chile says the massive bushfire that tore into the historic coastal city of Valparaiso last week is finally out, but 150,000 people have been left homeless.

Finland says the investigation into a plane crash that killed eight skydivers will take weeks or longer to complete.  Only three managed to skydive to safety before the small plane crashed in the wood on Sunday.

Air Canada might sack two baggage handlers caught-on-video tossing luggage 20 meters into a bin instead of using a stairway to load it respectfully, like they were supposed to have done.  A passenger had his video in had when he saw she display out the plane’s window.  Air Canada has profusely apologized.