Searchers give up hope on the hundreds of people buried in the Afghan avalanche – Detectives are subjecting Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams to intense questioning – Twitter and the inability to self-censor undoes two UK politicians – And a lot more in Part Two of your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Officials  say the landslide that buried as many as 2,100 on remote northern Afghanistan is now a mass grave – there’s simply no way to dig through the mud and dirt that buried a village.  Reports say it is 50 to 100 meters thick at different points, and the tools required just do not exist in that very under-developed part of the world – no bodies were recovered on Saturday.  The aid effort is now focusing on medical care for injured survivors and the needs of more than 4,000 people displaced. 

Four people were hurt in violent clashes in Rome before the Coppa Italia football final.  Two fans and one cop were shot on the outskirts of Rome where fans of Napoli and Fiorentina were gathering, although police are not discounting the involvement of AS Roma ultras.  Inside the venue, several more people were hurt by fireworks and smoke bombs, which delayed the game.  Eventually, Napoli eventually beat Fiorentina 3-1 to win the cup for the fifth time.

A Brazilian football fan was killed by a thrown toilet at the end of a match in Recife, which is one of the World Cup host cities.  Another three people were reportedly hurt as toilet bowls were ripped out of stadium facilities and hurled at rival fans below.  The World Cup begins just over a month from now among concerns that Brazil is not ready.

Northern Ireland police are questioning Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams 17-hours a day.  They apparently got nothing during the first 48-hours, because cops had to get permission from a court to hold the world-famous politician for another 48.  Adams denies any part in the 1972 murder of a Belfast woman wrongly suspected of being a police informant during the peak of the Troubles.  Sinn Fein has accused police of timing Gerry’s arrest to disrupt upcoming elections.  If that’s the case, they’ve failed miserably – new polls indicate Sinn Fein is in contention to win three of the Irish republic's 11 seats in the European Parliament.

A Tory candidate for UK Parliament has resigned from the party for posting homophobic and Islamophobic jokes on Twitter.  David Bishop of Essex says he “let myself and my party down” for the comments last month.  He steps down a day after the other conservative party – the UK Independence Party (UKIP) – suspended a council candidate who tweeted homophobic and Islamophobic slams without even trying to shroud it in “humor”. 

Human rights groups are criticizing a French court for refusing to allow a woman’s same-sex spouse to adopt their 4-year old son.  The Versailles court said the couple defrauded French law by conceiving via in vitro fertilization performed in Belgium – French law bars homosexuals from medically assisted procreation.  But critics note that the Versailles ruling runs counter to previous court rulings, and accuse the judge of pursuing a social vendetta.  The couple will appeal the bum ruling.

Former US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice out of a planned commencement speech at Rutgers University, in a row over her role in pushing the Iraq war.  Students had staged a sit-in to protest the decision by the university to invite her to be the commencement speaker and pay her a speaker fee of US$35,000.  Two Australians were among the more than 4,400 coalition troops killed in a nearly 9-year war in a country that didn’t attack anyone and didn’t have Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Japan marked the Constitution Day holiday deeply divided on changing the pacifist charter in line with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push for an expanded role for the military.  The ruling conservative LDP party has long wanted to change, but has been unable to convince the voting public.  The 1947 constitution says the Japanese people “forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation” and that “land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.”  Abe wants Japan to build its military, take more responsibility for its defense, and take part in more international “peacekeeping” forces.