Hello Australia!! - The favorites are disappointed in the US Presidential race - Brazil insists the Olympics will not be impacted by the Zika virus - Where have all the Kiwis gone? - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The first contest of the American presidential election process is over, and the results haven't done much to clarify a murky situation.  It's a nightmare for the Republican Party establishment, as Texas Senator Ted Cruz - a social and fiscal extremist - came in first.  For all of his self-aggrandizing bombast and free publicity willingly handed over by the US corporate media, loudmouth billionaire Donald Trump came in second.  The establishment's hopes are now on Florida Senator Marco Rubio, considered by many to be an inexperienced policy lightweight. 

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton declared victory with daughter Chelsea and husband former President Bill Clinton at her side.  But in a contest for delegates to the party convention in the summer, she came in with just a few more delegates promising to back her than her Left-wing rival Senator Bernie Sanders.  In the byzantine Democratic Party system, some delegates are chosen by voters in caucuses and primaries, and others - so-called "super delegates" - make their own decisions on who they will back.  Ms. Clinton already locked up most of the supers, meaning that she didn't have as many voters in Iowa than did Mr. Sanders.  Both came out after the count, boasting their progressive credentials.

Despite the emergency over the Zika virus declared by the UN World Health Organization, Brazil says there is no chance the Summer Olympics will be cancelled because of it.  Health officials link Zika to cases of around 4,000 cases of microcephaly in Brazil since October, in which babies are born with abnormally small skulls and underdeveloped brains.  Brazilian health officials say there is no risk to athletes and spectators - except pregnant women - at the Olympics in August.

The UK apparently has won a major concession from the European Union to stay in the continental fold.  A source at Number 10 says nations will get the power to block "unwanted" EU laws, if 55 percent of the EU's national parliaments join forces to vote them down.  The Tories say that PM David Cameron has delivered on a promise to devolve power from Brussels.  But it's not in stone just yet, other EU leaders will have to approve the plane at a summit to be held on 18 and 19 February.

For the first time, former military officials are being tried for using rape as a weapon of war in the country where the crimes occurred.  Guatemala accuses Francisco Reyes Giron and Heriberto Valdez Asij of allowing or ordering troops to assault indigenous Mayan women at base used for staging assaults on alleged Left-wing rebels during the genocidal civil war of the 1980s.  In truth, the troops were often going out and killing indigenous people, posthumously accusing them of collaborating with rebels.  The women were taken from their villages in 1982-83, but some weren't released from the base until 1998.  

Thailand arrested more than 100 people in a crackdown on slavery and other labor abuses in the seafood industry; 36 of them have been sent to prison in months of investigations and prosecutions, and 130 human trafficking victims were rescued.  Last April, the European Union said it would boycott Thai seafood unless the country cracked down on the abuses.

More Aussies and moving to New Zealand than there are Kiwis moving to Oz.  Statistics NZ said 25,273 people migrated to New Zealand from Australia in 2015, while 24,504 people moved from New Zealand to Australia.  That comes out to a net flow of 769 people heading east.  Most of those going to New Zealand were Kiwis moving back home.

Did you know Australia had a volcano in the Antarctic?  Of course you did, you passed your elementary geography classes.  CSIRO Scientists caught rare video of an eruption of Big Ben, some 4,100 kilometers southwest of Perth.