Good Morning Australia!! - The US Federal Reserve finally raises a key interest rate - Japan's Supreme Court likes the 19th century so much, they're keeping it around - Malala Yousafzai Condemns Donald Trump's ideology of "hatred" - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Cute Baby Panda Bei Bei at the Washington National Zoo is cute.  So are babies in Santa outfits in a crawling contest in Ukraine.

The US Federal Reserve Bank for the first time in nine years raised its key lending rate by a quarter point.  It's a sign the Fed believe the US economic emergency that began in 2008 is finally over, supported by a recovery in the US jobs market and signs the inflation would gradually rise.  This will also strengthen the US Dollar, which most international corporations and countries trade in.

Gunmen kidnapped several Qatari hunters from the desert in Iraq, include some members of the Qatari ruling family.  The attackers swept in early Wednesday morning near the village of Layyah along the Saudi Arabian border.  The Iraqi government often grants permission to wealthy Middle Easterners to go on Falcon hunts for game that's unavailable - or already hunted to extinction - in their own country. 

Turkey is conducting a treason investigation against an opposition MP who repeated a report claiming that Islamic State used Turkey to transport the chemicals that make up toxic sarin gas.  Istanbul MP Eren Erdem said on Russian TV that the components came from Europe, and mixed in IS camps in Syria.  heclaims his information came from a criminal indictment of 13 individuals who were rounded up by Turkish police, then mysteriously set free and allowed to cross over into Syria.  Since making his explosive allegations, prosecutors opened the treason investigation and nationalists doxxed his personal information. 

In stupid, intolerant America:  A noted conservative college outside Chicago is under fire for suspending a tenured professor, because she expressed solidarity with American Muslims.  "I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book," Dr. Larycia Hawkins wrote on her Facebook page, "And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God."  She also vowed to wear a hijab while anti-Islamic violence shames the US.  But Wheaton College put Dr. Hawkins on administrative leave over "significant questions regarding the theological implications" of her statements.  Increasing xenophobia and hateful rhetoric has propelled a record number of attacks on mosques and Islamic centers across the US.

Nobel peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is condemning the recent anti-Muslim xenophobia expressed by US presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for all Muslims to be banned from the country.  "Well, that's really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others," Malala told the AFP.  In a separate interview with UK's Channel 4 News, Malala said, "I can just highlight one thing.  The more you speak about Islam and against all Muslims, the more terrorists we create."  Malala famously survived being shot in the head by the Pakistani Taliban for her education activism, only to elevate her message to a world stage.

Japan's Supreme Court decided that women don't have a right to their own name.  In a stunningly ignorant and 19th Century-style decision, "justices" upheld a law that married couples must have the same surname.  Campaigners argued the law was ridiculously discriminatory, but Judge Itsuro Terada noted that among the Japanese there was already "informal" use of maiden names, which eased the impact of the surname law.  The court struck down a law that said that women - only women, it didn't apply to men - had to wait six months after divorce before getting remarried.

Mexico is investigating a mass grave in Guerrero State where 19 bodies were found.  DNA tests will determine if these are the 43 student teachers who went missing from Iguala Town and are presumed dead.  But with more than 600 families looking for missing relatives in the state plagued by drug gang violence, it's very unclear who is in that grave.

Thousands of South Africans marched to demand President Jacob Zuma be sacked over widespread corruption and incompetence in government.  The marchers are using the hasthag #ZumaMustFall on social media.  Dissatisfaction with Zuma is splitting the ruling African National Congress, and reuniting people who began protesting the apartheid government in the 1970s.