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Peaches Geldof, a frequent media presence and daughter of Boomtown Rats lead singer Bob Geldof, was found dead in her home in England’s southeast.  Kent Police said, “At this stage, the death is being treated as unexplained and sudden.”

A jury in Sydney's Downing Centre District Court has found Former Hey Dad! star Robert Hughes guilty of nine out of eleven charges of sexually abusing young girls during the 1980s.

Angus Houston says searchers could finally be on the trail of MH370 – A Hollywood legend with a career spanning more than eight decades is dead – Being a leader in marriage equality gets an unexpected result – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

It’s Day 31 of the search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared in the early morning with 239 people on board, including six Australians.  Right now, ships and planes are trying to home in on the pulses first detected earlier by a Chinese ship, hoping that the signal is from the missing plane’s flight data recorders.

A former Northern Ireland Secretary is calling for crimes committed during the Troubles to be left unsolved, and that includes some three thousands murders.  Peter Hain said that a de facto amnesty was needed in order to allow Northern Ireland to put the past behind it.

Ukraine’s acting President Olexander Turchynov was forced to cancel a planned visit to Lithuania, after pro-Russian agitators stormed government buildings in three key eastern Ukrainian cities, demanding referendums on independence from Kiev.

The death toll in the Solomon Islands is now at least 21 lives lost, and around 49,000 people are homeless after storms and flooding tore up Honiara in one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike the islands.  Right now, aid workers say they need to stop the spread of disease, especially Dengue Fever.

A US Navy ship rescued a sick one-year-old baby and her family from their crippled boat almost 1500 kilometers off the coast of Mexico in the Pacific Ocean.  The young family was just two weeks into what was supposed to be a round the world sailing trip.

Disaster strikes the Solomons – Old wounds fail to completely heal, 20 years after the Rwandan genocide – China says its crews “might” have detected a black box signal in the MH370 search – The Red Shirts vow to back Thailand's embattled government – And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

An Afghanistan cop opens fire on journalists with deadly results – US Feds bust-up an alleged right wing terrorism plot – Kurt left us 20 years ago today – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs.

One of the criminals on Interpol’s list most-wanted drug traffickers has been found and arrested.  24-year old Gabriel Alejandro Reyes Beltran was caught in San Cristobal, Venezuela, running one of the barricades associated with anti-government protesters and the conservative opposition. 

There are now more than one million refugees from the Syrian Civil War who’ve fled into Lebanon, according to a new United Nations report.  It’s overwhelming Lebanon and severely straining the efforts of the government and aid organizations.

An Indonesian woman convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia has been spared death by decapitation after a family fundraising effort and her home government came up with what is essentially the blood money demanded by the victim’s family to call off the ax. 

Bill Clinton says one of the first things he did after becoming President of the United States was to have his aides look into a purported UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, and check to the top-secret base in Area 51 “to make sure there was no alien down there.”

The Stones are coming back – Liz and Frank get together – Why does London look like Beijing? – A surprise retirement in television – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The US Government is admitting it created, funded, and implemented a Twitter-like social network specifically for users in Cuba, with which the US has at best cold relations.  But the US denies the purpose was to destabilize Cuba and to create a so-called "Cuban Spring".

Russian says security agents have arrested 25 Ukrainian citizens on suspicion of planning to conduct sabotage and terror attacks in seven regions across Russia last month.  Ukraine's Security Service says Russian media reports that Kiev had ordered any such attacks were “nonsense”.

The Japanese government has cancelled the Antarctic Whale Hunt that was supposed to get underway later this year.  It’s because of the ruling from the International Court of Justice ordering Japan to scrap its “research” whaling program because it was just a cover for the commercial harvest of whales.

An aftershock rocks Chile – Seven are killed by a World War II bomb – The Yakuza wants you to say no to drugs! – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

On the 32^nd Anniversary of Argentina’s invasion of the UK Falkland Islands, Buenos Aires has issued a new 50-Peso note (A$6.78) with a map of what officials there refer to as “Las Malvinas”.  And Argentina’s President accused Britain of turning the rocky outcrop into a NATO nuclear installation.