Hello Australia!! - 2015 was the Year of the Shark - Establishment candidates fall behind in the first US Presidential Primary of the year - An outspoken former Sydneysider wants to save Europe from a repeat of the 1930s - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The number of shark attacks on humans around world hit a record high in 2015 - 98 such incidents with six fatalities.  That shatters the previous record of 88 in the year 2000.  Australia accounted for 18 shark attacks and South Africa followed with eight, but the vast majority occurred in the waters off of the United States: A record 59, which like the global total is the most since record keeping began 57 years ago.  The reason is pretty simple:  There's more of us and there's more of them:  "Sharks plus humans equals attacks," said George Burgess of the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.  "As our population continues to rapidly grow and shark populations slowly recover, we're going to see more interactions."

The first primary election of the US Presidential Campaign Season was won by two outsiders:  On the Democratic Party side, Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New Hampshire Primary by a 20-point margin.  HRC responded with a rousing speech that played up her similar goals as voters who picked Mr. Sanders, who then promised a political revolution against greedy corporate interests infesting the US government.  The Clinton campaign is expecting to regain momentum in South Carolina.

On the republican side, racist-sexist-xenophobic billionaire Donald Trump won with about 35 percent of the vote.  The GOP establishment's candidate,  Ohio governor John Kasich, was a distant second.  The perceived winners of last week's Iowa Caucuses, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, failed to make a dent in New Hampshire.  Corpulent New Jersey Governor Chris Christie went back home to weigh the future of his campaign after placing way back.

Controversial former Greek finance minister and ex-Sydneysider Yanis Varoufakis is launching a new Democracy movement for Europe.  He points to the rise of far-right parties and growing attacks on migrants as signs that Europe is sliding back into conditions reminiscent of the 1930s; unable to deal with it is a hapless and arrogant bureaucracy that's making up policy as it goes along, he alleges.  Yanis' Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) wants to "bring about a fully democratic, functional Europe by 2025," as an alternative to 'a common bureaucracy and a common currency (which) divides European peoples that were beginning to unite despite our different languages and cultures."

A second report is throwing shade on the Mexican government's official narrative of what might have happened on 43 student teachers who disappeared in Iguala Town in southern Guerrero state.  The government claims they were killed by a drug gang and the bodies were burned at a rubbish dump.  But Argentine DNA specialists concluded there's no biological nor physical evidence to back up that claim.  Last September, experts from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded the government's original investigation had been deeply flawed.  The fate of the missing 43 has galvanized the country, cutting through near weekly reports of atrocities committed by drug gangs.