An experimental drug appears to have saved two Ebola patients – China’s earthquake death toll goes up – A major scientific scandal results in suicide – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A jet is flying across the Atlantic, ferrying the second American volunteer infected with Ebola from Liberia to a special unit of Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital.  There, Nancy Writebol will join Dr. Kent Brantly in a special isolation unit.  Brantly is improving, and his condition reportedly turned around almost immediately after taking an experimental serum rushed to Africa to treat the two.  Writebol is reportedly weak, but able to sit up and take some food and liquid.  Meanwhile, a man who had recently visited West Africa was being tested for Ebola in New York City, but officials say it’s unlikely he has that disease.

The human toll in the earthquake that struck southwestern China is at least 398 people killed and 1,800 injured.  The People’s Army dispatched 2,500 soldiers to Yunnan province to search for survivors, especially in isolated regions of the mountainous epicenter.  Heavy rain and rough terrain are hampering the search.

Rescuers in Bangladesh were trying to locate the spot where a river ferry carrying hundreds of passengers returning from the Eid al-Fitr holiday capsized and went underwater.  Only 44 people managed to swim ashore.  Bangladesh's water transport authority said about 50 people were unaccounted for, but local officials compiled a list of 116 missing people from relatives and villagers.

Gunmen shot and killed the mayor of the town of Ayutla in western Mexico’s Jalisco state, the stomping ground of the New Generation drugs cartel.  The deputy police chief in the mountain town was assassinated a few weeks ago – no one has been arrested in that killing.

Heavy rain caused a flash flood and massive mudslides on California’s Mount Baldy in the San Gabriel range outside Los Angeles.  At least one person was killed and more than 2,500 were stranded before rescuers started shoveling out the muck and mire that cut-off entire towns, and get people to safety.

The man who took a bullet for US President Ronald Reagan, only to turn into one of America’s most prominent gun control advocates is dead.  James Brady was Press Secretary of Reagan in 1981 when would-be assassin John Hinckley opened fire on the men outside a Washington, DC hotel.  Brady was left partially paralyzed, with permanently slurred speech.  He then champion legislation that would be called the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act which would prevent millions of guns to being sold to people who failed background checks. 

Did someone say a large shell-shaped structure is sucking tonnes of rubbish out of a river.. for FREE?

Amnesty International is condemning Azerbaijan for the arrest of a prominent human rights advocate.  Authorities arrested Rasul Jafarov of the Baku-based Human Rights Club (HRC) over the weekend and immediately sentenced him to three months pre-trial detention for alleged tax evasion.  However, the West isn’t going to say a lot about it, because they’re courting the former Soviet republic for its oil and gas, which Europe wants as an alternative to Russia.

Doctor Yoshiki Sasai has committed suicide.  He was the co-author along with Haruko Obokata of a disputed paper on the creation of stem cells published in the journal Nature.  But their research could not be replicated, scientists around the world called foul, and Nature quickly retracted the research.  Dr. Sasai was found hanging from a staircase at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and an apparent suicide note was found on his secretary's desk.  Haruko Obokata retracted her research and apologized in April.  The scandal is known as one of the biggest frauds in science, and has severely tarnished the Riken Center’s reputation.