Good Morning Australia! - Read this before you make breakfast!  Or before you make breakfast tomorrow - Park rangers find a poachers' killing field in Africa - A powerful earthquake strike Southern Asia - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Before you fry up that plate of sausage or bacon for brekkies, know this:  The UN World Health Organization says processed meats like the aforementioned goodies and ham really do cause cancer.  Eating 50 grams of such meats per day increases a person's chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18 percent.  And before you think about that burger for lunch, WHO says all red meats were "probably carcinogenic" - but there was limited evidence.  WHO is now classifying processed meats at the same carcinogenic level as cigarettes and asbestos.  Moderation, people, moderation.  Except in Germany, where they're just going to eat sausages.

The death toll is climbing from a magnitude-7.5 earthquake that hit north-eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.  More than 200 are reported killed.  People as far away as northern India and Tajikistan reportedly feeling the shaking.  At least twelve of the victims were Afghan schoolgirls killed in a crush as they tried to get out of their building. 

No one was hurt when powerful gusts knocked down a construction crane in Israel.  Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately blamed it on the Palestinisns (just kidding, but seriously Bibi, WTH).  Meanwhile, violence continues in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

The whale watching ship that sank off the coast of British Columbia, Canada yesterday was carrying 27 people including British nationals; Five of them died, and some were tourists while others were British residents of Canada.  The Leviathan II put out a mayday call off Tofino, BC, in good weather.  But an eyewitness named Alec Dick from the nearby Ahousaht First Nation told local media:  "They got swamped by a wave.  It just flipped their boat completely.  I've never seen, in my involvement with search and rescue, heard this happen before."

Scientology is on trial in Belgium.  Eleven members of the group are on trial on charges of fraud, extortion, running a criminal organization, and violating the right to privacy.  Convictions could get the controversial group banned from the country.  Prosecutors conducted investigations for almost 20 years and say the "religion" invented by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard is a cult and that it scams and abuses its members.

The United Nations rapporteur on child prostitution and pornography is urging Japan to ban "manga" with "extreme child pornographic content".  Last year, lawmakers banned child pornography in photographs and on video, but there is a loophole for hideous content that is drawn in comic books and cartoons (called "manga"and "anime" in Japan).  Dutch lawyer Maud de Boer-Buquicchio says freedom of expression should probably prevail in the depictions of adults, but not with children.  "What is worrying is that there is a trend which seems to be socially accepted and tolerated," she said.  Anyone who has rode in the Tokyo subway and was sickened by glancing at what some people are reading can attest to that.

Zimbabwean wildlife rangers discovered the carcasses of 22 elephants that who poisoned with cyanide by poachers at Hwange National Park.  The grim discovery brings to 62 the number of elephants poisoned just in the month of October in Zimbabwe.  Earlier this month, 40 animals died from cyanide-tainted oranges left in three spots in Hwange.  Over the weekend, authorities at Harare international airport seized 173 kilograms of illegal ivory worth A$60,000 that was about to be smuggled to Singapore.

No serious injuries were reported after the landing gear on a British Airways jet collapsed upon landing at Johannesburg.  But witnesses said one of the wings was pretty much separated from the Boeing 737-400.