Hello Australia! - If there is a hell on earth, it is in South Sudan - The "Zombie" that stalked American skies - Investigators blast North Korea for its "top export" - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The African Union is accusing both government troops and rebels in South Sudan of carrying out atrocities in the Civil War.  An investigation discovered evidence of killings, torture, mutilations, and rape, mostly against civilians.  Most disturbing were the incidents of forced cannibalism; militias forcing civilians to drink human blood and eat the flesh of killed opponents.  The only good news is that so far there is no evidence of genocide.  The African Union is asking for international backing of an African-led court to bring to justice those responsible for the violence.

North Korea is exporting its own people as slave labor, according to the United Nation.  An investigation revealed that the majority of the workers are sent to China and Russia to toil in the mining, textile, and construction industries; they're forced to work up to 20 hours a day; and the "clients" pay the North Korean government directly, which keeps billions of dollars while giving nothing or next to nothing to the workers.  It's one of the few sources of cash available to the oppressive regime, which is under economic sanctions because of its nuclear weapons program.

South Korea's Supreme Court has sentenced the head of a maritime company to seven years in prison over last year's sinking of the Sewol passenger ferry that killed more than 300 people.  The court found Kim Han-sik, president of Chonghaejin Marine Company, responsible for failing to prevent the overloading of cargo and improper storage on the ship that led to the sinking.  The captain of the Sewol is appealing his life sentence.

Talks on finding a political solution to the Syrian Crisis get underway in Vienna.  US Secretary of State John Kerry said, "At the end of the day, nothing would do more to bolster the fight against (Islamic State) than a political transition that sidelines (Syrian President Bashar Al) Assad so that we can unite more of the country against extremism."  Good luck with that, because Russia and Iran are taking part in the talks, and they are allied with Assad.

The US Air Force is investigating how a blimp got loose from its moorings in Maryland and drifted across part of the northeastern US.  Tracked by F-16 fighter jets, the blimp cruised above 4,800 meters, creating a hazard to air traffic; as it drifted lower, it snapped high tension wires cutting power to thousands of homes and businesses.  The US$175 Million dollar balloon was filled with surveillance gear designed to detect cruise missiles (although privacy advocates fear it will be loosed on the populace), but it apparently doesn't work very well:  The blimp and others like it are part of the Air Force JLENS program, which after 17 years of development is hobbled by defective software, vulnerability to bad weather and poor reliability.  Critics say it's a "Zombie" defense program that has cost $2.7 Billion with little to show for it.

Tuberculosis now ranks alongside HIV as the world's most deadly infectious disease.  The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says each accounted for between 1.1 million and 1.2 million deaths in 2014 - and that's unacceptable for a disease that could be cured.  But there have been great strides made in fighting TB - last year's deaths are about half of 1990's, and the TB infection rate has been falling 1.5 percent per year since 2000.  Most new cases of TB are reported in China, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan.