Hello, Australia! – A man sets himself ablaze on one of the world’s fastest trains – Greece considers the courts to fight its European creditors – A surprising bit of social progress in Africa – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A passenger reportedly poured oil on his head and set himself on fire aboard one of Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains on the heavily-traveled Tokyo-to-Osaka Tokaido Line, according to Japan’s national broadcaster NHK.  That man died of his burns and a female passenger suffered cardiopulmonary arrest.  A train was stopped outside Yokohama at Odawara town, doors open, with crewmembers and passengers leaning outside the doors to get some fresh air.  Before that, passengers recorded at least one car filled with thick, acrid smoke.  Firefighters were seen hopping over the barrier wall along the specialized tracks to get to the train. This is also a big inconvenience for commuters – that line averages 424,000 passengers per day when the trains are running.

Japan raised the Volcano alert around Mount Hakone outside Tokyo to Level Three on a scale of five, after a very small eruption.  The evacuation zone has been expanded as well.  Hakone is a popular getaway spot for people from Tokyo and Yokohama.  Hakoneyama usually heats the water for the area’s popular hot springs resorts.  But because of its proximity to the Japanese capital and tens of millions of residents, an eruption can cause huge problems.

Greece might seek legal action to prevent it from being kicked out of the Eurozone over its debt problems.  “We are taking advice and will certainly consider an injunction at the European Court of Justice,” said Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.  “The EU treaties make no provision for a Euro exit and we refuse to accept it.  Our membership is not negotiable.”  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has made it clear that Greece does not have the 1.6 Billion Euros to pay by today’s deadline.

A young woman has died, days after a horrible fire tore through a crowd at a water part in Taipei, Taiwan.  20-year old Lee Pei-yu suffered burns on 90 percent of her body, and her family agreed to discontinue life support as survival was impossible.  500 people were injured and 200 remain in critical condition.

Liberia says a 17-year old boy who died last Wednesday had Ebola – a troubling development for the country, which had been declared Ebola-free early last month.  But the health ministry is insisting that there’s no reason to panic, because the boy is the only known infection, and he was given a safe, hygienic burial.  The West African Ebola Epidemic killed 11,232 people, more than 40 percent of them in Liberia.

Mozambique in Southeastern Africa has broke with attitudes in much of the continent and decriminalized both homosexuality and abortion.  The old prohibition on homosexuality was a colonial leftover written by the Portuguese in 1886, but there have been no prosecutions since the country gained independence in 1975.  That’s attributed to the government abiding by the mores of Mozambique’s international investors and donors.  Homosexuality is outlawed and gays are persecuted in most African nations.  Abortion is available on demand only in South Africa; everyplace else in Africa restricts it to cases in which the mother’s life or health is threatened.

Colombia’s FARC rebels blew up a new section of an oil pipeline, causing a minor spill in southern Putumayo province.  But it comes just a week after the FARC what might be the worst environmental disaster in the country’s history.  The earlier FARC attack caused more than 10,000 barrels to spill into streams in Narino Province and threatened to flow all the way to the Pacific Ocean.  It left 150,000 people without water.  The FARC ended its unilateral ceasefire last month after increased attacks by government troops.