Good Morning Australia!! - A killer earthquake strikes Italy - Authorities identify the woman murdered in a Queensland hostel - Is the UN ready for Iraq to liberate a major city from Islamic State? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The death toll from a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in central Italy is now 120 lives lost - and the toll is expected to go higher as more bodies are found under the rubble of ancient stone and wood buildings.  The quake struck after 3:30 in the morning, local time, in the mountainous region 100 kilometers northeast of Rome.  Heavy damage is reported in the formerly picturesque towns of Amatrice, Accumoli, Ansa, Arquata del Tronto. and Pescara del Tronto.  Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed that rescue and recovery efforts would not stop, and that "no family, no city, no hamlet will be left behind".

Another earthquake in Myanmar caused damage to at least 66 Buddhist Stupas in the ancient city of Bagan.  It's a major tourist site, home to thousands of Buddhist monuments built between the 10th and 14th Centuries.  One person was killed.

The woman stabbed to death at a Queensland surfer's hostel has been identified as 21-year old Mia Ayliffe-Chung of Derbyshire, UK, a "happy go lucky" free spirit who had "fallen in love" with Australia "and its people".  30-year old British man Tom Jackson and hostel manager Grant Scholz were injured.  The suspect, a 29-year old Frenchman Smail Ayad who'd been in Australia for about a year, reportedly was obsessed with Ms. Ayliffe-Chung and yelled "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.

Fighters backed by Turkey and supported by US air power took the Syrian city of Jarablus, in a battle that underscored the deep divides between that country's rebels.  The US is also backing the Free Syrian Army which include Kurdish fighters whom Turkey considers to be terrorists.  US Vice President Joe Biden in Turkey said that the FSA and Kurds need to end their plans to take Jarablus and stay on the other side of the Euphrates River, if they plan on continuing to receive US support.

With Iraqi forces preparing to retake the city of Mosul from more than two years of Islamic State occupation, the United Nations is warning "the humanitarian impact of a military offensive there is expected to be enormous," UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Adrian Edwards told reporters in Geneva.  More than 120,000 people have already been displaced by fighting on the peripheries since March, but the UN says another 750,000 will be on the move once the real fighting starts - and the current refugee camps can handle only a fraction of that.

The announcement of a final peace deal between Colombia and the Marxist FARC rebels is expected today.  Comrade Timochenko and President Juan Manuel Santos will put an end to a civil war that started in the 1960s, and allow the Leftists to come in from the wilderness and join the political process.  More than 220,000 people have been killed in the troubled decades leading up to 6:00 PM local time on Wednesday.

The Airlander 10, the world's largest aircraft that many hoped would mark the return of blimps and dirigibles and floaty things to the skies, was damaged in a hard landing on its second test flight.  Nicknamed the "Flying Bum" by some because of its resemblance to a backside, it came in nose-down and crunched into a runway in eastern England.