Good Morning, Australia! – A crowded passenger ship has sunk in China’s Yangtze River – A solar flight mission is aborted, for the time being – A Liberal MP says marriage equality would pass, if the PM would get out of the way –And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Breaking News:  A passenger ship carrying more than 400 people has sunk in China’s Yangtze River.  State-run media says rescue work is under way at the scene in Hubei Province.  The ship, named Dongfangzhixing of “eastern Star”, was heading from Nanjing in Jiangsu Province to southwest China’s Chongqing city.

The solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft has been forced to divert and land in Nagoya, Japan.  It had set off from Nanjing, China for the 8,500-kilometer voyage to Hawaii – the most difficult leg of its round-the-world journey – but ran into bad weather.  The team will now wait in Japan for better conditions before attempting to continue.  Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg tweeted that he was disappointed but looking forward to the next attempt.

The gay marriage bill would pass, if Prime Minister Tony Abbott would allow a free vote in which coalition members could vote their consciences.  Liberal MP Sarah Henderson of Corangamite told the ABC, I confirm that I support both marriage equality and a free vote for Coalition MPs,” adding, “People who held a different view five or 10 years ago are now saying ‘I didn’t support marriage equality and now I do’, so I do think that there is a fundamental shift.”  Except with Tony, apparently.

Indonesia says an asylum-seeker boat that had been turned back by Australia has crashed into a reef near Landuti Island.  65 people were on board, including four women and three toddlers – all but one are being held on West Timor.  A local police official says the refugees said they were on a different boat when they were intercepted by the Australian border patrol on 5 May.  They said they were given a more seaworthy boat and some provisions, and escorted back to Indonesian waters.

Islamic State took three of those Hummer H1 vehicles it had captured from Iraqi forces, loaded them with explosives, and and used them to kill 45 Iraqi police officers.  This attack happened on a key road in Anbar province connecting Falluja and Samarra, and reportedly claimed some senior officers.

More than 65 people died when a loaded fuel tanker lost control going down a hill in Onitsha in Nigeria’s southeast, crashing into a crowded bus station.  No terrorism is suspected.  Dozens of people are being treated for various burns.

Colombia’s former intelligence chief is on trial before the Supreme Court for allegedly taking part in the assassination of a presidential candidate who dared to take on the drug cartels.  Killers cut down Luis Carlos Galan as he campaigned through Bogota’s slums.  Former spy chief Miguel Maza is accused of taking bribes from infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar to reduce the size of Galan’s security escort.  Galan was heavily favored to win the presidency before he was killed.

A lion mauled a female American tourist to death at one of those safari parks in South Africa.  The 22-year old victim was apparently rolling through the Lion Park north of Johannesburg with the passenger window wide open, and the lion came right at her.  The male driver and a tour guide were hurt fighting off the beast.  This is the same place were Aussie Brendan Smith of Perth was bit by a lion in March.

Paris officials insist it is still the “City of Love” after crews removed thousands of “love locks” from the sides of the Pont des Arts bridge over the River Seine.  Since 2008, lovers have attached padlocks to the chainlink fence on either side of the bridge as romantic gestures.  Unfortunately, their emotions weigh 45 tons – more than 40,800 kilograms.  And all that love weakened the bridge.  Not even a decade old, the practice really had little to do with Parisians, and was brought over from Serbian tourists.  The locks, with unknown combinations and/or missing keys, will probably melted down.