Good Morning Australia!! - A top Olympic official is arrested for ticket scalping in Brazil - The Burkini ban on certain French beaches gets unexpected support - Trump's latest campaign shake-up points to more craziness to come - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Patrick Hickey has temporarily stepped down as the head of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) after Rio De Janeiro cops arrested him in a ticket scalping scheme.  Cops showed up at his hotel room, only to find his wife alone and claiming that the 71-year old Mr. Hickey had left the country; in fact, he was in the room next door, naked for some reason.  Authorities threw a bathrobe on him and took him in for questioning, later transporting him to hospital after he complained he didn't feel well.  The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it is cooperating with the investigation and Ireland's DFAT is providing consular assistance. 

US Swimmer Ryan Lochte left Brazil and arrived back home just before a Brazilian Judge ordered his passport confiscated pending further investigation into a robbery last weekend.  Lochte and three other members of the US team - James Feigan, Gunnar Bentz, and Jack Conger - said they were robbed at gunpoint by uniformed men claiming to be Rio police.  They did not file a report, and police initiated their own investigation based on the publicity.  The police claim there are gaps in the mens' stories, and a three-hour period in the evening that the investigators can't fill in. 

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has not revealed where the 854 people in the Manus island detention center will go, but they're not going to Australia.  Dutton and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill met in Port Moresby on Wednesday and announced the center will definitely close, without announcing a time frame.  Labor is livid that more details are coming from PNG than from Canberra:  "The Australian public have a right to know in circumstances where about AU$1.2 Billion of taxpayers money is going to offshore processing, what is actually happening," said shadow immigration minister Shayne Neumann.  "This is yet again an example of the lack of transparency and accountability and openness of this government to offshore detention and processing."

Russian counter-terrrorism forces shot and killed four suspected militants during a raid in Saint Petersburg.  Authorities said at least three of the men had been wanted for links to a series of terror attacks and attempted assassinations.

Dozens of people were injured when a French commuter train struck a tree that had been knocked onto the rails during a storm.  The double-decker train had been traveling at 140 kilometers per hour east of Montpelier when it rammed the tree on Wednesday afternoon.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is throwing his support behind local bans on the "burkini" in French beaches, but stopped short of backing a national ban on the controversial swimwear designed for observant Muslim women.  That delighted France's nationalists and conservatives and shocked Valls' own Socialist Party.  But Mr. Valls said wearing a burkini was "not compatible with the values of the French Republic" because it's based on the oppression of Women.  "In the face of provocation, the nation must defend itself," Valls told La Provence newspaper.  

Neo-nazis attempted to disrupt a political rally with German Vice Chancellor and Social Democrat Sigmar Gabriel, who responded by flipping the bird to the scumbags.  Good on ya, Sigmar.

Three people died in what sounds like an entirely avoidable set of tragedies in India:  Their throats were slit by glass-coated strings called 'manja' used for flying kites on Indian independence day.  A three-year old girl and a four-year old boy were cut while they watched the kites through the sunroof of their cars in different parts of Dehli; a 22-year old man on a motorbike was apparently clothes-lined.  Kite-flyers in South Asia use glass-coated strings to bring down rivals' kites - but they usually cause many injuries and harm hundreds of birds, leading entire cities to ban the practice.

Fascist demagogue Donald Trump is putting the inmates in charge of the asylum:  The US Republican party presidential candidate has hired the CEO of the fringe right-wing lunacy website Breitbart to take over his campaign.  Steve Bannon will be the third head of the Trump campaign in as many months.  Named for its dead founder Andrew Breitbart, the website specializes in a paranoid, aggressive brand of conservative that is regularly debunked by fact-checkers.  It signals that Trump's attempts at placating the mainstream and centrists he already largely alienated are over, and bomb-throwing is back. 

Hilariously, Breitbart news recently commissioned its own polling to prove that the polls used by the rest of the media are biased to the Left and inaccurate, but wound up confirming that Hillary Clinton is way ahead of Trump.  And then Trump hired the guy who did that.  LOL.

Okay, that's a big Gold Fish.