Ebola’s discoverer blasts the world’s slow response to the current outbreak in West Africa – The operator of the Fukushima reactors must have for a woman’s suicide – One of Colombia’s worst killers is freed from prison – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The Belgian scientist credited as the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus is concern about the rapid spread of Ebola disease in West Africa, where 1,427 people have died so far this year.  Dr. Peter Piot of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the French daily “Liberation” that “We have never seen an epidemic of such importance” and experimental drugs should be given to patients in affected countries.  Piot also blasted the UN World Health Organization, which he accused of acting too late, and said “the response from authorities has been too slow.”

Nigeria’s opposition is demanding president Goodluck Jonathan address the people about the “unprecedented national embarrassment” of town after town in the northeast falling to the Islamist group Boko Haram, as well as the reported fleeing of 480 Nigerian soldiers across the border to Cameroon during a Boko Haram attack on an army base.  Boko Haram has even declared an Islamic caliphate in the territory it controls.  The opposition says Goodluck Jonathan is paying too much attention to politics instead leading the nation to address the threat in the northeast.

French officials say the new cabinet will be “good for business”.  Shrinking President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Manuel Valls cut the anti-austerity ministers from the ruling Socialist party’s Left and replaced them with loyalists.  Strangely, few in Hollande’s “pro-business”, market-friendly cabinet have any actual business experience, save for new Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron, a 36-year old former investment banker at Rothschild (no conspiracy theories, please).

Colombia’s most-notorious contract killer was released from prison and has begun his four-year parole.  John Jairo Velasquez was convicted for his part in the murder of Leftist presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan in 1989, and confessed to killing 300 people as a hit man for drug baron Pablo Escobar.  But Velasquez gave evidence against an ex-justice minister who ordered the hit on Galan.  Families of his many victims say 22 years of a 30-year prison sentence isn’t long enough.

A Japanese court is ordering the operator of the crippled, radiation spewing Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to pay around A$500,000 to the family of an evacuee who killed herself.  Hamako Watanabe grew despondent after the family was forced to evacuate their home because of radioactive contamination.  Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has settled suicide claims before, but this is the first time a court has ordered the power company to pay up – opening the door for more suits from bereaved families.  Fukushima Daiichi was heavily damaged in the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami in 2011, and three reactors experienced complete meltdown.

A woman in northern India survived a leopard attack by fighting back using the only weapons available to her, a sickle and a spade.  56-year old Kamla Devi was cut up by the beast’s claws pretty badly, and she suffered some broken bones.  But the leopard didn’t walk away unscathed – Kamla says she managed to smash some of the animal’s teeth during the 30 minute long struggle.  Rudraprayag village has had several leopard attacks in the past, including the infamous “Man Eater of Rudraprayag” which was reputed to have killed 125 people before shot in 1925.