Good Morning, Australia! – US Prosecutors allege a decades-long bribery scam in FIFA’s highest ranks – Kurds chalk up new victory against Islamic State while Iraq takes more hits – Did Global Warming cause the killer floods in Texas? – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

US Prosecutors outlined their accusations against seven of the biggest officials in world soccer, accusing the FIFA officials of racketeering, fraud, and money laundering involving millions of dollars in bribes over 24 years.  Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the FIFA execs had “used their positions to solicit bribes.  They did this over and over, year after year, tournament after tournament,” adding, “They corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and to enrich themselves.”  Swiss police arrested the seven officials at a posh hotel where they had gathered for Friday’s vote for a new president, and there are 18 defendants in all.

The US Military is admitting that it sent live samples of Anthrax to as many as 20 military and commercial laboratories in the US and as far away as South Korea.  It was part of a program to develop field tests to quickly identify the potentially deadly spores, and the samples were supposed to have been inactive samples.  Officials claim no threat to the general public – but there are concerns for lab workers who likely were not wearing full isolation suits to handle the samples once they arrived. 

Coolness:  Five Orcas were spotted swimming in Tokyo Bay near Chiba. 

Islamic State unleashed a wave of suicide bombings against Iraqi forces, killing 17 soldiers just hours after Iraq launched its counterattack to recapture the city of Ramadi.  The militants struck from multiple directions at the soldiers, who were gathered near a canal between the Euphrates River and Lake Tharthar as they prepared to deploy.  Meanwhile, IS militants across the border in Syria gathered survivors of its assault on Palmyra in the ancient Roman theater, and forced them to watch the executions of a group of detainees. 

Once again, Kurdish forces have proven successful against Islamic State.  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Kurdish fighters had retaken Assyrian Christian villages along the Khabur River.  The Assyrians are one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, and have been under increasing threat as IS spreads across the country, murdering people belonging to other religions.

Men with machine guns abducted a Brazilian radio journalist known for speaking out against organized crime from a bar in a small town in Bahia state.  Djalma Santos da Conceicao was later found dead, his corpse showing signs of having been tortured before he was killed.  It’s the second time in less than a week that an anti-crime journalist was murdered in Brazil.

Mexico has dropped criminal charges against four men, finding that they had been before signing confessions.  They had served seven years in prison.  All along, the four had maintained their innocence of charges of throwing hand grenades into a crowd at an Independence Day festival in 2008, killing eight people.  The attack in Michoacan State occurred in the midst of a war between rival drug cartels, and it’s suspected one of the cartels set up the four men to take the fall for the grenade attack.

A Vatican official says Ireland’s historic vote to legalize same-sex marriage is a “defeat for humanity”.  Of course, Cardinal Pietro Parolin didn’t explain how this is possible or how gay marriage affects anyone except gays who want to get married.  He just has the sads!  Same-sex marriage is now legal in 20 countries worldwide, but Ireland is the first to do it by popular vote.

The weather has been great in Ireland, but around the world in Texas, the death toll is up to 19 lives lost from flooding caused by torrential rains.  What caused those torrential rains?  Global Warming, according to Brenda Ekwurzel, a senior climate scientist at the science advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientists.  She points to record breaking ocean temperatures revving up another El Nino year.  “When you have a warmer atmosphere, then you have the capability to hold more water vapor,” Ekwurzel said, “When storms organize, there’s much more water you can wring out of the atmosphere compared to the past.”  Texas Governor Greg Abbott (coincidence?) is a notorious denier of climate science.

Roll video!!  A guy driving in Hiroshima prefecture, outside the big city, presses the “record” button as up to 30 Wild Boars and their adorable children were out foraging.  Hilariously, some of the little ones followed the wrong parents as they scampered into the bush.  Don't worry, they've got great snouts and will find Mum.