Howdy Australia!! - Europe's heatwave causes all sorts of trouble - The EU is really trying to tell Boris that his Brexit dreams aren't going to happen - Trump is going to kill people - And lots more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Paris recorded its hottest day ever as the second heatwave of the year bakes Europe.  The French capital reached 42.6 C Degrees (that's 108.6 Fahrenheit), more than two degrees higher than the previous record set in 1947.  Records fell all over Western Europe - In Germany, the northwestern town of Lingen hit 41.5 C Degrees.  Cambridge in the UK reached 38.1 C Degrees Celsius (100.5 Fahrenheit), the hottest day recorded in July in Britain and the second-hottest in general.  "This is only the second time temperatures over 100 Fahrenheit have been recorded in the UK," tweeted the Met.  All this caused transport disruptions, many businesses had to close, and Germany reports rivers, streams, and lakes are running dry which poses a threat to fish and shellfish.

Now, while individual weather events are hard to link with the indisputable reality of man-made global warming, it does fit the overall pattern and predictions of more and more record breaking heat in what used to be considered the temperate zone.  Researchers point out the hottest summers of the past five centuries all happened in the most recent 17 years.  So there.

European Union officials again warned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson that his Brexit plan will not work.  In his first full day at work, Johnson told Parliament that he is fully committed to getting rid of the Irish Backstop, an agreement reached by his predecessor Theresa May and the EU in December 2017 that guarantees the seamless border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.  But hardline Brexiteers like Boris say that would tie his country to EU rules and regulations long after the Brexit takes effect.  Chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier described Johnson's Parliament performance as "rather combative", wrote to EU leaders at it was "of course unacceptable" to back out of the backstop deal, and said that the continent is prepared to deal with a no-deal Brexit.

Can we get out of London yet?  No?  Fine.  Metro police arrested four teenage boys in the violent attack on a Lesbian couple riding a double-decker bus.  The photo of the blood spattered couple went viral earlier this year, bringing worldwide condemnation and demands that police arrest the attackers.

The United Nations is condemning the Trump Administration in Washington after it announced it would resume executions of federal prisoners.  "All the countries that continue to impose the death penalty on the population are flying in the face of what the UN believes is the principled position to end this sort of penalty once and for all," said Farhan Haq, spokesman for UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres.  Many US states have ditched the death penalty or simply put a moratorium on executions, and other countries have stopped selling the cocktail of drugs most-commonly used for lethal injection, so the first execution under the new policy - that of a white supremacist convicted of murdering a family including an eight-year old girl - will use the single drug phenobarbital on 9 December.

Indonesia has pardoned a woman who recorded her boss sexually harassing her with vile language but then was jailed for violating his privacy.  President Joko Widodo granted amnesty to Baiq Nuril Maknun after she had exhausted all other legal avenues and parliament approved it.  

The US Military charged 16 Marines with human smuggling and drug-related offenses, arresting the suspects during a morning battalion formation at Camp Pendleton in California.  Two of the men who caught in the desert in southern California with three Mexican nationals who had paid thousands of dollars to get into the US.  

Ukraine seized a Russian tanker that was involved in a confrontation on the Black Sea with one of its ships last November.  Kiev released the crew immediately.

North Korea shot at least two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently Kim Jong-un's attempt to tell Donald Trump that he still wants to talk.

No one was killed when a huge fire swept through 200 homes in Lima, Peru.

Tunisia's first democratically-elected president Beji Caid Essebsi has died in office at age 92.  He was first elected to office in 2014 after the Arab Spring, possibly the only place in the Arab world where all that actually worked out well.  Essebsi was hospitalized last month and was again rushed to hospital earlier this week with an unknown malady.  The election to pick his replacement will take place in September.

Parents took their eyes off of a two year old for only a moment, and the kid jumped on to the luggage conveyer at Atlanta's airport.  It took him on a wild and probably very dangerous and scary ride.  He suffered a slight hand injury.