Good Morning Australia!! - Russia starts dropping spanners in the works in Syria - The Taliban tightens its grip on a city the US and Afghanistan clearly did not expect would be attacked - A notorious mass murderer has the brass to complain about his treatment in prison - The thirsty leopard who needed help gets it - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The US-led coalition's job in Syria just got a lot more complicated - Russia gave an hour's notice and started aerial attacks on targets near Homs.  Russian defense officials say aircraft carried out about 20 attacks on Islamic State.  But US Secretary of State John Kerry complained to his Russia counterpart Sergei Lavrov that the MiGs did not hit IS-held territory, and instead struck the area under the control of rebel groups operating under the banner of the "Free Syrian Army" -  the rebels backed by the West.  The Russian jets carried out their attacks within hours of getting approval from the Russian parliament.

Despite Afghan attempts to retake the city, the Taliban appears to be not only consolidating its hold on the northern city of Kunduz - but the militants are also taking young boys from families and forcing them to be soldiers in their army.  Reports are emerging that the Afghan military abandoned enough western-supplied weapons to allow the Taliban to hold out for months.  A NATO spokesman says that "coalition special forces are on the ground in Kunduz advising their Afghan counterparts", but NATO isn't bombing the city because of the civilian population.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly in New York that the Palestinian Authority (PA) may no longer be bound by the Oslo Accords reached with Israel.  Mr. Abbas said that "as long as Israel refuses to commit to the agreements signed with us, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements".  He gave no timetable for severing agreements; but if the PA were to start, it would be by "peaceful and legal means".

Amnesty International is warning that the uptick in violence in the Central African is being funded by "blood diamonds", and that the government should prevent them being exported.  The rights group says the predominantly Muslim Seleka forces and the Christian "Anti-Balaka" militias are profiting from the diamond trade by controlling mine sites and extorting "protection money" from miners and traders.  Interim President Catherine Samba Panza says that elections postponed for October would be cancelled because of the violence.

At least seven people are dead and dozens are wounded in a wave of parcel bombings in China's southern Guangxi region.  Authorities are warning people not to open packages after at least 15 blasts from bombs hidden in parcels that were delivered by courier.  They're holding a 33-year old man identified as "M. Wei", but have not indicated the motive.

Norway's right wing mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has threatened to starve himself to death.  Good, more power (and less food) to you, jerk!  Breivik is protesting his treatment in prison, where he says he is kept in isolation 23-hours a day; and that forced him to drop out of a university correspondence course in political science.  The coward Brievik shot and killed 77 unarmed teens and young people at a Socialist youth camp in 2011, shortly after he set off bombs in the capital Oslo. 

Brazil's fugitive mayor has handed herself in to authorities.  25-year old Lidiana Leite became infamous after allegations she didn't even live in the town of Bom Jardim, and governed via smartphone app while traveling to glamorous and exotic locations.  Prosecutors accuse her of embezzling funds from the school system.

A thirsty leopard in India stuck its head in someone's metal water jug for a drink, but got stuck.  Eventually animal welfare workers were able to tranquilize it, free it, and release the big cat into the wild.