Good Day Australia!! - The World Health Organization backs away from an offensive decision - The Czechs are the latest Europeans to abandon common sense for populism - We got your Baby Pandas - Dumb guy forgets to click "publish" and the news is late - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The UN World Health Organization has rescinded its appointment of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe as "goodwill ambassador".  Critics pointed out the 93-year old, who frequently naps during official functions, gets his healthcare abroad because his mismanagement has gutted Zimbabwe's healthcare system.  Mugabe's government also has a track record of human-rights abuses, including violent crackdowns on political dissent, leaving most people wondering WTH the WHO was thinking in the first place.  No fewer than 28 global health bodies had issued a joint statement expressing their "shock and concern" at the appointment, now rescinded.

New details about the killing of Australian teacher Gabrielle Maina in Nairobi suggest it may not have been a simple robbery-gone-wrong.  The ABC reports her lawyer said that the angle of the bullet wound and marks on her skin suggest she may have been forced to kneel on the road before she was shot - indications of an execution.  If she was targeted, it's still not clear "why" - Ms. Maina was a successful teacher in the Kenyan capital, where she moved two years ago.

The positive identification of missing indigenous rights activist Santiago Maldonado might have an impact on Sunday's voting in Argentina.  The family positively identified the body of Maldonado, who was last seen being arrested at a demonstration on 1 August.  The body was pulled out of a river near the scene of that demonstration last week.  Officials claim there was no sign of violence on the body and more time will be needed to determine the cause of death.  President Mauricio Macri's conservative party seemed on track to win some legislative seats, but the apparently forced disappearance of Maldonado brought back unpleasant memories of the thousands murdered by the US-backed fascist junta of the 1970s and '80s.  So, we'll see.

At least two people have died in Japan because of Typhoon Lan, as it made landfall this morning in Shizuoka Prefecture - where much of the country's manufacturing is located.  At least 20,000 households in the storm's path were ordered to evacuate.  The counterclockwise motion of the storm brought strong wind and drenching rain into Kanto, the densely populated area around Tokyo; but flooding was also reported as far west as Sakai City south of Osaka.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) came out with a super-majority in the weekend snap elections, freeing the nationalist to pursue his dream of scrapping pacifist Article 9 of the post-war constitution.  This isn't a terribly popular idea in Japan, nor are his market-oriented "Abe-nomics" reforms, and his approval rating was actually lower than his disapproval rating.  So why did he crush this election?  The people had nowhere else to go:  The main opposition Democratic Party imploded and split, with one faction not even bothering to run candidates and the other only coming into existence a couple of weeks ago.  Popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike got peoples' hopes up by forming the new "Party of Hope", and then let everyone down when she announced she wouldn't actually run in a parliamentary race.  Now, yet another unpopular conservative stuffed suit will claim an imaginary mandate with which to do really, really dumb things.

The Czech Republic took a step into crazyland with the election victory of blowhard loudmouth billionaire Andrej Babis and his ANO party.  Babis opposes further European Union integration and adoption of the euro, and takes a hard line on accepting refugees - all of the usual right-wing populist crapola.  He'll need to form a coalition with at least two other parties - and that might mean the SPD, which is even more anti-immigrant.  By the way, Babis was born in what is now Slovakia and SPD leader Tomio Okamura was born in Tokyo, which means that both anti-immigration blowhards aren't even Czechs themselves.  To underscore the anti-establishment wave in this election, the Pirate Party - which stands for anti-corruption, lots of computer stuff, and white guys with dreadlocks - also won seats in parliament.

Russia released opposition leader Alexy Navalny from prison, after he completed a 20-day sentenced for leading an unauthorized political gathering.  The Kremlin has clearly been rattled by the popularity of Navalny, and has repeatedly jailed him.  Navalny says he plans to defy a court order disqualifying him from running against President Vladimir Putin in next year's election.

BABY PANDAS!!!  ANOTHER BABY PANDA!!!