Good morning, Australia!  Cops investigate if a racist gang ordered a hit on an American prison official; The world is starting to get fed up with North Korea's abuse of its own people; President Obama engineers an important apology from Israel to its former best friend in the region.  

A man killed in a shoot out with police in Texas is identified as the suspect in the murder of the chief of Colorado’s Prison System more than 1,100 kilometers away.  28-year old white supremacist gang member Evan Spencer Ebel is also suspected in the murder of pizza delivery man Nathan Leon, whose clothing he used to approach the home of prison official Tom Clements.

Newly appointed Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first foreign trip.  He went straight to Moscow and secured a deal for Russia to provide more oil to feed China’s rapidly expanding industrial sector (and horribly polluted skies).

The United Nations will investigate North Korea for Human Rights abuses, specifically in regard to it labor camps.  Most victims sentenced to the camps never leave, and if women give birth in a camp, the kids never get out either.  UN investigator Marzuki Darusman says, "The prison camps could qualify as crimes against humanity."  North Korea reacted with the usual indignation. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey for an Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotilla” in 2010.  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly accepted the apology.  The Israelis killed eight Turkish Nationals and one American, who were trying to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza. The call was a feat of diplomacy by President Obama who visited Israel for the first time as President this week.

Human Rights groups are asking Myanmar leader to “change their approach” to handling sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims.  At least 20 people are dead and an entire torn has been reduced to “smoky rubble”.  The civilian government is navigating its way to broader democracy after decades of military rule.

Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda was flown from Africa to face war crimes charges in the World Court at the Hague.  The leader of the M23 group was known as “The Terminator” and is charged with recruiting child soldiers, murder, ethnic persecution, and rape.

Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano skipped over the spoilers and went straight to the Center-Left coalition to ask it to form a new government.  The Center-Left has a majority in one house of Parliament but the upper house is deadlocked because of the strong showing by the new, populist M5S party, which wants more money for education and opposes the European Union.  M5S has an antagonistic relationship with Italy’s power structure, so it’s no surprise Napolitano passed it over.

Imagine getting stabbed in the back (which totally never happens in journalism) and your doctor doesn’t catch it for THREE YEARS.  Billy McNeely of Fort Good Hope in Canada’s rugged Northwest Territories knows.  For three years, doctors told him the pain in his shoulder was nerve damage, even though something had set off metal detectors at the town jail (Billy admits he’s no angel).  Eventually, he felt the blade starting to come out and doctors pulled out a 7.5-Centimeter blade.  Billy’s getting ready to make some money the legal way:  He’s going to sue the territory health system.