Hello Australia!! - Trump stopped being funny a long time ago, but now he is an issue that threatens world security - Police are investigating Cardinal Pell for historic sex abuse allegations - How many truckloads of cash is Japan willing to dump into its economy to fight two decades of doldrums? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Australia's most senior Roman Catholic cleric Cardinal George Pell is denying allegations of sex abuse of children dating back to the 1970s, when he was a priest in Ballarat.  Two men - now in their 40a - have come forward to accuse Pell of misconduct while they swam at Ballarat's Eureka Pool during the summer of 1978-79.  Another man claims he saw a naked George Pell behaving in a disturbing manner with boys as young as eight years old in an incident at the Torquay Surf Life Saving Club in the summer of 1986-87.  And yet another complaint involved teenage boys in the 1990s, one of whom is dead but the other is cooperating with police.  Speaking in Rome, the cardinal said, "I have done nothing wrong".

Donald Trump went before cameras as a news conference and called on state-sponsored Russian hackers to commit illegal espionage to advance his own presidential ambitions.  "I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," he said referring to the non-scandal involving then-Secretary of state Hillary Clinton's use of an email server.  "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," he added.  That immediately drew gasps, and the center-to-left portions of the pundit class began openly wondering if the orange enema didn't just commit treason, while some right-wingers and part of Murdoch's media empire tried to defend Trump.

Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign responded:  "This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent," said Jake Sullivan, Clinton's chief foreign policy adviser.  "This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue."  Republican US House Speaker Paul Ryan didn't have the guts to confront Trump directly, although a spokesman said:  "Russia is a global menace led by a devious thug," adding, "Putin should stay out of this election."  The former head of the CIA Leon Panetta said that Trump's remarks were "beyond the pale" and show he is unfit for the presidency.

This comes at a time of serious questions about Trump's fitness to lead and his loyalties.  He has repeatedly threatened the NATO alliance, saying that if he were president the US would not militarily support member nations unless they "pay up".  Yeah, that's extortion.  There are also growing reports of Trump's indebtedness to Putin, and fears that he may attempt to pay those debts by "giving" Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to Putin, who has always resented former Warsaw Pact nations that switched to the West after the Cold War. 

As if to underline in the growing instability in the stupid US, prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against the six cops involved in the murder of Freddie Gray - the black Baltimore man who died in police custody in April 2015, a week after he suffered a severe spinal injury while traveling without a seatbelt in the back of a police van.  Baltimore Judge Barry Williams had already acquitted three officers, who waived their right to trial by jury.  "We could try this case 100 times and cases just like it, and we would end up with the same result," lamented prosecutor Marilyn Mosby.

The so-called Islamic state released a video purporting to show the two twerps who murdered an 86-year old priest in northern France yesterday, standing in front of an IS banner and saying all of the usual dumbarse IS stuff.  Another video from the scene of the attack has emerged, showing the cowardly twerps using elderly nuns as human shields.  So, that's IS for you.

The Palestinian Authority is planning a lawsuit against Britain for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which laid out plans for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.  The suit - to be filed in as yet to be announced international court - will allege that the document invited mass Jewish immigration to what was the British Mandate Palestine "at the expense of our Palestinian people".  In 1948, Israel declared independence, and the suit will blame the UK for every alleged Israeli crime since then.  The UK hasn't commented, and Israel says the suit will fail.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning a AU$354 Billion stimulus package to boost the nation's seemingly perpetually-moribund economy.  This is a much larger investment than analysts expected, partially because Mr. Abe wants to mitigate any contagion from the impending Brexit on Japan.  Most of the money will go to local and prefectural governments for infrastructure projects.

Paleontologists believe they have found the largest footprint left behind by a predator dinosaur.  The footprint - 1.2 meters wide - is in Bolivia and was likely left by an Abelisaurus, a nine-meter long chompy chompy bipedal carnivore who stalked prey there 80 million years ago.  "This print is bigger than any other we have found to date in the area," said Argentine paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia.  "It is a record in size for carnivorous dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous period in South America," he added.