Good Morning Australia! - Turkey's government gets an electoral reprieve - Investigators say the Russian passenger jet broke up in midair over the Sinai Peninsula - Australia conducts Naval exercises with China today - The guy who changed the course of history with a botched press release is dead - And much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Before the death and destruction, here's something cool:  Rescuers off Southern California untangled a Humpback Back from a tangled web of fishing line.

A Russian official says MetroJet Flight 7K9268 broke up in midair before crashing into the desert in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.  For a second day, officials denied the local Islamic State group's claims that it shot the plane down, noting that there's no evidence of such an event nor did the terrorists upload a video of such a thing to the internet, as they usually do.  Some witnesses said the plane appeared to disintegrate in mid-air, distributing wreckage around a 20 square kilometer debris field.

Turkey's ruling AKP party appears to have won a clear majority in the 1 November election, meaning it can rule without a coalition partner.  Polls had indicated that the AKP would received only between 40 - 43 percent of the vote, which is close to the results from the election in June when it lost its majority for the first time in 13 years.  Still, the pro-Kurdish HDP barely cleared the ten percent threshold to be represented in Parliament, despite the government closing polling places at four o'clock in the afternoon in the eastern Kurdish regions for "security reasons".  This leaves in power problematic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his revolving door for refugees transiting into Europe, as well as his thus-far questionable choices in the war on Islamic State.

The dumbest soldier in the US Army prompted a security alert when he went out in his Halloween as a suicide bomber.  At Fort Bragg.  Seriously, he did this at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, home of the US Army Airborne and Special Forces.  Guards closed down checkpoints and called for an ordnance disposal team to deal with the costume.  "Costumes of this sort are not allowed on Fort Bragg," the base said in a statement on social media, which was then removed because the comments section turned into a cess pool.  USA!  USA!

Al Shabab militants are suspected in the car bombing that killed 15 people in hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.  At least one member of Parliament and a military general were killed.

Islamic State terrorists reportedly captured the Syrian town of Maheen, in central Homs Province - despite US-led bombings of IS targets over the weekend, and Russian's air support of the Syrian government troops who were displaced by the bad guys.  The capture of the territory in a predominantly Christian area puts IS within 20 kilometers of a key road that connects the capital Damascus to the north.

Searchers believe they have located the El Faro, a cargo ship that went missing off the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin last month.  It was sailing from Florida to Puerto Rico with 33 crew on board when it made a distress call in choppy seas.  US Navy SONAR indicated the El Faro sits on the sea floor deeper than 4,500 meters below the surface. 

The Royal Australian Navy today conducts live fire exercises alongside Chinese warships, not far from the artificial islands China constructed in the South China Sea which violate international maritime law and the existing claims of countries who are actually on the disputed waters.  Critics think it sends a mixed message, while the US is trying to keep the South China Sea shipping lanes open to international commerce and navigation.  China is not backing down, despite the International Court in the Hague declaring it has jurisdiction to hear the Philippines' assertion that China's territorial claims are null and void.

Despite a show of shaking hands, there were no real breakthroughs at a meeting of northeastern Asian leaders in Seoul.  South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang agreed to hold regular trilateral meetings to diffuse tensions.  But all territorial disputes and historical disagreements are exactly the same today as they were a week ago.

The guy who accidentally opened the Berlin Wall in 1989 is dead.  Guenter Schabowski was 86 years old.  Schabowski was the East German government spokesman who famously went on TV and announced that East Berliners would be able to cross from the Communist territory into the west, unaware that the policy was supposed to be gradually rolled out.  It sent thousands of people flooding to the checkpoints, leaving hapless guards to throw up their hands and let people through (instead of killing them, which was the policy up until that moment).  Within days, people were taking sledgehammers and chisels to the hated wall, and East Germany ceased to exist as a state a few months later.  Warsaw pact regimes soon began falling one by one and the Cold War was over - in part because Guenter Schabowski screwed up a press release.