Good Morning Australia!! - North Korea launches a missile over Japan - The flooding in Texas is getting worse as rain keeps falling - A Labor Senator denies being a double-secret foreigner - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

North Korea this very morning launched a missile over the Japanese northern island of Hokkaido and into the Pacific Ocean, sending a message to CareerSpot News that it likes to be the top story every now and then.  Okay, fine.  Happy now?  Neither the Japanese Self Defense Force nor the American military stationed in northern Japan took any steps to shoot down the projectile.  National broadcaster NHK said that the government had urged people in northern Japan to take refuge in solid buildings or underground shelters.

The death toll is now eight lives lost from Tropical Storm Harvey's arrival in Texas as a Category-4 hurricane and the resulting "epic and catastrophic" flooding.  A family of six, including four children younger than 16 years, drowned in a van trying to escape the flooding in Harris County, near Houston.  Texas Governor Greg Abbott activated the state's entire National Guard in response to the threat of record flooding, and officials warned it's going to get worse as more rain falls and reservoirs and waterways breach their banks.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and LGBT rights groups filed lawsuits challenging Donald Trump's memorandum directing the Pentagon to bar transgender Americans from serving in the US military.  "This ban not only wrongfully prevents patriotic, talented Americans from serving, it also compromises the safety and security of our country," said Lambda Legal senior attorney Peter Renn who filed suit in Seattle.  "The Trump administration has provided no evidence that this pronouncement was based on an analysis of the actual cost and disruption allegedly caused by allowing men and women who are transgender to serve openly," said the ACLU in a statement.

A court in India sentenced a controversial and popular guru to 20 years in prison for the crime of rape, falling short of prosecutors demands for a life term.  Police and security forces have moved in force into the area around Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's ashram in Haryana State where thousands of his most-ardent followers live.  38 people have already died in violence surrounding this trial, in which Singh was accused in 50 rapes; attorneys believe there could be as many more victims who haven't yet spoken out.  The Guru - known for his jeweled wardrobe and self-produced action films in which he stars as a UFO-fighting version of himself - is also charged in two murders, and that trial starts next month.

Labor frontbench Senator Katy Gallagher says, "I am not and had never been an Ecuadorian citizen," after a newspaper unearthed an entry card showing her mother was born in the South American nation.  "As part of the ALP vetting process, I disclosed that my mother was a British citizen, born in Ecuador to British parents, who were temporarily working in Ecuador," Ms. Gallagher said, maintaining that the 2008 Ecuadoran constitution doesn't get to determine where her mother is a citizen.  Seven federal parliamentarians have already been caught up in the dual citizenship fiasco, and the High Court will hear their case in October.

German cops raided the home of fellow police officer and another person in an alleged plot to murder "Leftist" politicians for their support of refugees.  "The accused saw the crisis they had feared as an opportunity to capture representatives from the left of the political spectrum and kill them with their weapons," stated a release.  Prosecutors say the suspects drew up a list of targets and began to stockpile food and weapons.  Chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative Christian Democrat Party opened the borders borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees in 2015.

Germany's killer nurse is now being investigated in as many as 84 deaths that might have gone under the radar of police and medical officials.  Niels Hogel - known only as "Niels H" under German reporting rules - was convicted of attempted murder in 2006 and murder in 2015 for overdoses given to patients in his care.  But he testified that he might have killed up to 90 people - and since then, relatives of people who died in institution where he worked have been demanding answers.  There are fears he might turn out to be the country's worst killer since the end of World War II. 

Indigenous groups blocked Guatemala's main highway in protest of embattled President Jimmy Morales' attempt to toss a United Nations corruption watchdog out of the country.  The country's top prosecutor on Monday said the former TV comedian and conservative president must obey the Constitutional Court which suspended his order against the UN official, who angered Morales by supporting efforts to investigate his shady campaign finances.