Hello, Australia! – Danish media identify the gunman who shot up a cafe and synagogue – Islamic State kills more than 20-Christian captives – You won’t believe want prompted a teen’s murder spree in gun crazy America – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The gunman shot and killed by Copenhagen police is identified by Danish media as 22-year old Omar el-Hussein.  Police did not release a name, but say the dead suspect was a known gang member with convictions for violent offenses.  Hussein is suspected of firing shots into a cafe hosting a seminar on free speech.  The gunman later attacked a synagogue in Copenhagen.  Two people were killed in the shootings.

Islamic State militants in Libya released a video showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians the terrorists had kidnapped in December and January.  “Egypt and the whole world are in a fierce battle with extremist groups carrying extremist ideology and sharing the same goals,” says Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, adding that his country reserves the right to respond any way it sees fit.  Libya has no effective government, and the Islamists control vast swaths of the east of the country. 

The US and its coalition partners carried out at least eleven more air raids against Islamic State targets.  In Syria, fighter jets took out several occupied buildings and vehicles around Kobane. In Iraq, air strikes near Tal Afar, Mosul, Bayji, Hit and Sinjar struck tactical units, vehicles, a bulldozer, buildings and a checkpoint

16 people are dead and several more are wounded after Boko Haram sent a teenage girl with a suicide bomb into a crowded bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Damaturu.  Most of the victims were children selling products in the facility.  It’s Boko Haram’s latest attack outside the group’s stronghold of Borno State.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that Shiite rebels from the Houthi group relinquish power in Yemen.  The Houthis forced the president to resign earlier this month and has him under house arrest.  The resolution hints at a “readiness to take further steps”, although it contains no mechanism for military enforcement.

Tens of thousands of Greeks flooded the streets and squares in Athens (drone footage!) to show solidarity with the government on the eve of Monday’s meeting with Eurozone finance ministers.  The Greek government wants a bridge loan to tide it over for a few months while a new deal for paying back the bailout is discussed.  But Athens warns it will not accept any more harsh austerity measures imposed by Europe.

Democratic Left Alliance candidate Dr. Magdalena Ogorek has an uphill battle in her campaign for president in conservative Poland.  Her platform calls for better relations with Russia, including direct talks with President Vladimir Putin.  If she wins the 10 May election, something tells me Putin will agree to the meeting.

Police in Baltimore, Maryland on America’s east coast shot and killed a 16-year old in a gun battle.  The investigation took them 500 miles away to the home of the gunman Jason Hendrix, a high school military cadet and avid churchgoer.  Investigators found the bodies of his mother, father, and 12-year old sister – shot to death by Jason early last week because his parents took away his computer privileges for a couple of days.  In between the murders and the roadtrip, he met up with friends at church that evening and showed no signs of distress.

Actor Louis Jourdan is dead at age 92.  He described himself as “Hollywood’s French Cliche`”, coming to California in the late 1940s after a stint in films in France and working with the resistance to the nazi occupation.  Best known for 1958’s Gigi, Jourdan also played the suave continental in The Paradine Case (1947), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Best of Everything (1959), and The VIPs (1963).  In the 1980s, he played the villain in the most execrable of the disco-era James Bond films Octopussy.  Jourdan retired in 1992 after five decades in movies.  In 2010, he was awarded France’s Legion of Honor, accompanied by his legendary pals Kirk Douglas and Sydney Portier.

Italy’s richest man is dead.  Michele Ferrero presided over a global confection empire that brought to the world Ferrero Rocher chocolates, Kinder eggs, Tic Tac sweets, and – best of all – Nutella.  Forbes Magazine called him “the richest candyman on the planet” with a net worth of US$23.4 Billion.  Michel Ferrero was 89-years old.