Good Morning Australia!! - The stunning amount of discarded plastic that shows how we're turning the planet into a craphole - Human Rights abuses in North Korea are allegedly worse than expected - Uruguay begins selling legal Marijuana - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The total amount of plastic ever made is 8.3 billion tons, and more than 70 percent of it is garbage littering landfills, rivers and streams, and too much in the Earth's oceans.  That non-biodegradable garbage is heavier than 17,500 Empire State Buildings, or 700,000,000 elephants, or a ton of plastic for every person in the world.  Very little of it is recycled.
We're ruining the planet
The figure is stunning because plastic has been in production for 65 years, and half of the total amount has been manufactured in just the last 13 years.  The situation is rapidly approaching the point of being irreversible:  "We are rapidly heading towards 'Planet Plastic', and if we don't want to live on that kind of world then we may have to rethink how we use some materials, in particular plastic," said Dr. Roland Geyer of the University of California at Santa Barbara, author of the new report appearing in the journal Science Advances. 
Hey Grandkids, good luck with this lot
If the current trends continue, the Earth will be covered in 12 billion tons of plastic junk by 2050.

Speaking of hellholes, North Korean authorities routinely carry out extra-judicial killings of criminal suspects in public places such as riverbanks or schoolyards, and such executions are driven by government directives or the desire to kill off members of a particular family.  The report from South Korea-based but US-funded Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) is the result of interviews with more than 375 defectors.  North Korea denies accusations of human rights abuses.

A Kenyan court has sentenced three men to death for a notorious sexual assault in 2014, recording and uploading a video of them stripping the woman and abusing her, apparently because her Western clothes didn't conform to their views of local traditions.  It was part of a string of sexual assaults in Nairobi that sparked the widespread #MyDressMyChoice protests; there have been no similar incidents since then.  Kenya hasn't actually executed a criminal since 1987, and it is within the realm of possibility that President Uhuru Kenyatta will commute the sentences to life imprisonment.

Saudi Arabian police have released the young woman seen in a video wearing a miniskirt while walking through an historic site.  The public prosecutors has also reportedly closed the case.  The video went viral among those who think the backwards country needs to drop codified wardrobe restrictions on women, and those ultra-conservatives who thought the young woman should be punished for showing her sinful, sinful G-rated body parts.

Chile is moving towards ending the country's total ban on abortions.  Senators voted in favor of a proposal which would allow abortion in cases of rape, if the mother's life was at risk, or if the fetus would not survive the pregnancy.  The legislation is backed by President Michelle Bachelet, a medical doctor who has made easing Chile's draconian abortion laws part of her main priorities.

Uruguay has finally commenced selling fully legal Marijuana for recreational purposes. 
Uruguayans can buy and grow this legally
The dream of former President Jose Mujica who started the process of decriminalization four years ago, reefer is available over-the-counter at specially-licensed pharmacies for about AU$10 for five grams. 
Former President Jose Mujica
Jose Mujica smokes a joint
The law also allows users to grow their own at home or join co-operative clubs that farm it.  Hey world:  LEGALIZE IT.