Good Morning Australia!! - More help is coming for starving Syrians - Investigators point the finger of blame in a deadly train crash - A man shoots and kills a football ref because of a red card?!?!  Really? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The government of Syria has approved another round of emergency aid deliveries to towns cut-off by fighting, and a UN spokesman says trucks are loaded and ready to go:  "Humanitarian agencies and partners are preparing convoys for these areas to depart as soon as possible in the coming days," said UN spokesman Farhan Haq.  Among the seven approved areas are rebel-held villages such as Madaya near Damascus, which has gotten a lot of attention from Western media because of mass starvation; two government-held villages besieged by rebels in the north; and Deir el-Zour, a city in the east that is under siege from so-called Islamic State.

Former United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is dead at age 93.  He had earlier been admitted to hospital in Cairo with a broken pelvis.  No further details on his death were immediately available.  Boutros-Ghali took office in 1992, but by 1994 was taking intense criticism for the UN's failure to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

The US and Cuba have signed an agreement to restore normal air service for the first time in decade.  Airlines can start applying for routes, and flights will likely begin in the northern hemisphere's autumn.  "Today is a historic day in the relationship between Cuba and the US," said US Transportation Secretary Anthony Fox, alongside Cuban Transportation Minister Adel Yzquierdo Rodriguez who called it "an important step". 

Human error caused last week's train crash in Bavaria that killed eleven people and injured scores more.  A railway controller broke policy and opened a single track to the two commuter trains, although he tried to warn the drivers.  "If he had complied with the rules," said Chief Prosecutor Wolfgang Giese,"There would have been no collision,".

French prosecutors spent most of Tuesday questioning former president Nicolas Sarkozy about campaign spending during his unsuccessful 2012 bid for re-election.  The investigation centers around claims that his party, then named the UMP, faked invoices worth more than AU$15.6 Million to cover increasing costs.  Sarkozy has repeatedly said he was not involved in the details of his campaign finance.

 

Police in Argentina are searching for a footballer who allegedly shot and killed the ref who gave him a red card.  This happened during a match on Cordoba:  Witnesses said the player retrieved a gun from his bag after being shown a red card, returned to the pitch, and shot 48-year-old Cesar Flores three times in the head, neck, and chest.  Another player was wounded and is recovering in hospital.

The leopard that ran amok in the Indian tech city Bangalore last week and mauled six people at a school is on the loose again.  The eight-year old male cat slipped out of its cage at Bannerghatta National Park for medical treatment, where workers took him for medical treatment.  Wildlife officials are urging calm:  "It is a myth that a leopard can turn into a man-eater.  It's a very remote exception to the rule.  On this count, there is no need for worry," said chief wildlife warden Ravi Ralph.