Good Morning Australia!! - Boris Backs Off in Britain's latest Brexit Bombshell, hilarity ensues - UK Labour's Jeremy Corbyn is accused of abiding anti-Semitism - Back in Oz, the Liberals and Labor are tied on election eve - And TONS MORE in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Former London Mayor Boris Johnson has announced he will not stand for the leadership of the UK Conservative Party, and therefore will not be seeking the job of Prime Minister.  "Having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in Parliament, I have concluded that that person cannot be me," said the key figure - if not the main character - in the campaign to leave the European Union.  Social media and the regular media couldn't help but notice the sense of relief displayed by the guy who basically blew up the country and possibly an entire continent in his quest for political advancement over old boarding school rival, outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron.

Actor Ewan McGregor was one to sense the disturbance caused by Johnson's political vandalism, and led an onslaught of bitter tweets:  "You spineless c**t.  You lead this ludicrous campaign to leave EU. Win, and now f*** off to let someone else clear up your mess," wrote Obi Wan Kenobi.  Journalist and author Neil Mackay interpreted Johnson's statement as, "I've just bolloxed up Britain, but now you plebs can clean up the mess without me.  Enjoy the meltdown!"

But it's Lord Michael Heseltine who really ought to be kept away from firearms or sharp objects.  Giving the most venomous response to Johnson's abandonment of the situation he created, Lord Heseltine said:  "He's ripped the party apart.  He's created the greatest constitutional crisis of modern times.  He's knocked billions off the value of the nation's savings.  He's like a general that led his army to the sound of guns and at the sight of the battlefield, abandoned the field," and, "I've never seen so contemptible and irresponsible a situation." 

Be sure, Boris didn't step aside - he was pushed.  Just as Lord Haseltine plunged the first knife into Margaret Thatcher in 1990 (to be bested for Prime Minister by John Major), Boris tanked his old pal David Cameron's premiership - only to walk through the door at the top of a cliff held open by his bespectacled deputy in the "Leave" campaign Michael Gove.  It was Gove who kicked the chair out from under Johnson by declaring Boris to be "unfit" to unite the Tory party or the nation.  "It had to fall to someone else," Gove said eyeing the Iron Throne, "I felt it had to fall to me."  Boris Johnson's last supporters now says there's a special "place in hell" for Michael Gove.

And yet, the favorite to win leadership of the Tory Party is Theresa May - who wanted the UK to stay in the European Union.

Meanwhile, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn is caught up in bigotry row.  At the launch of a report documenting anti-Semitism in the Labour party, a community campaigner unleashed an idiotic anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on MP Ruth Smeeth, who is Jewish and who left the event in tears when Corbyn failed to stand up for her.  And then Corbyn compared Jews' relationship with Israel to Muslims' relationship with Islamic State.  Holy crap.  Jesus, Allah, and Buddha - I understand he was saying that people shouldn't be held responsible for organizations claiming to represent them, but putting it all into the same frigging sentence?!?!  Ms. Smeeth wasn't previously involved in the Labour Party's leadership struggle; but now she says, "A Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews," and, "I call on Jeremy Corbyn to resign immediately and make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and antisemitism."

Meanwhile, in a Land Down Under..

The latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll of Australian voters shows Labor and the Liberals deadlocked at 50 percent each.  When asked specifically which party would receive their second preference, voters gave Labor a 51-49 per cent lead.  Murdoch's Courier-Mail in Brisbane says its latest Galaxy Poll predicts a Coalition win with 51 to 49 percent, although a 2.5 percent swing to Labor will cut into the majority.  That prediction is perfectly inline with the foresight of Burt the Psychic Crocodile.

Moving along..

A house on a steep hillside in Nagasaki, Japan toppled over after rain loosened the ground beneath it.  It caused immense damage to the two homes below, but at least everyone in the home and 21 others surrounding it had been evacuated earlier.

Turkey arrested 13 people in the deadly bombing at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport earlier this week.  Officials are also confirming the nationalities of the three attackers who killed 41 people with suicide bombs and Kalashnikov rifle fire:  They were from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia's restive Dagestan region - where Special Forces recently launched another counter terrorism operation against Islamist insurgents. 

A Palestinian attacker stabbed and mortally wounded a 13-year old Israeli-American girl in her own bedroom, in her parents' home in the occupied West Bank.  19-year old Mohammed Tarayreh seriously injured a security guard before being shot and killed.  The girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel, was rushed to hospital but died there.  This makes it 34 Israelis and more than 200 Palestinians killed in tit-for-tat violence that began last October.

The US military is lifting its ban on transgender membership, as announced by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who called the policy "a matter of principle".  The UK, Israel and Australia already allow transgender members to serve openly.

Vietnam has sentenced 73-year old Australian woman Nguyen Thi Huong to death for trying to smuggle 1.6 kilos of heroin out of the country.  In a half-day trial, the court in Ho Chi Minh city rejected her claim that she thought she was carrying bars of soap.  The Australian Foreign Ministry says, "We will continue to provide consular assistance and support to the woman and her family."

Mexico earlier this week finally gave a birth certificate to 117 year old Trinidad Alvarez Lira, who has been unable to collect 100 percent of the old age benefits she was entitled to because she had no proof of her age.  But officials new say Ms. Alvarez died of heart failure on Wednesday, before she was able to get a check for what she was owed.

London Zoo welcomes a pair of new Sumatran Tiger Cubs!