Good Morning Australia!! - Obama throws down the gauntlet over "unfit" Trump - Trump takes it out on a baby - The bloodbath in Duterte's Philippines - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US President Barack Obama has dropped a hammer on Republican officials who've denounced their own Presidential candidate Donald Trump in the past few days, but have failed to go any further:  "The question I think that they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable: Why are you still endorsing him?" said Mr. Obama.  This comes on the same day that the first Republican party congressman, Rep. Richard Hanna of New York, said he would cross party lines and vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November election because Trump is "a national embarrassment".  Trump has been under intense criticism over the past few days for his twitter war with the Gold Star family of a fallen US Army hero.

As if to underscore that his temperament is completely wrong for the White House, Trump kicked a woman with a crying baby out of one of his rallies.  Because he's a sociopath. 

Authorities in Mexico arrested a mayor and four police officers after ten charred bodies were found in a burned-out pickup truck.  At first, investigators believed they died in an explosion during a botched fuel theft in Alvaro Obregon in Michoacan state; but prosecutors son learned that the cops had detained some people who had "differences of a personal nature" with Mayor Juan Carlos Arreygue.  The kidnapping and killing of then ten is being compared to the disappearance of 43 student teachers from Iguala town in Guerrero state, a case that shocked a country that had become jaded towards violent crime.

It looks like the Presidency of Rodrigo Duterte is rapidly plunging towards the "worst case scenario" in the Philippines.  The ABC is reporting at least 500 extra-judicial killings of supposed "drug" suspects by police and vigilantes in the weeks since Duterte's inauguration.  "I think there is more to come, because the reign of terror has started," says Roman Catholic priest Fr. Amado Picardal of Davao City.  "The police are on a killing spree, and so are the vigilante groups," he added, "My worst fears are being realised, but even I did not think it would begin so quickly."  

Duterte ordered cops to kill a Leyte mayor and his son on sight because of suspicions they're linked to the drug trade - an opposition Senator with a history of fighting drugs is being menaced and harassed by Duterte's thugs making wild and ungrounded accusations.  And over the weekend, disturbing photos emerged of rampant overcrowding in a Philippine prison related to Duterte's "crackdown" - although some told photographer Noel Celis that they were happy to be alive, considering the alternative.

Thousands of people in northern France's Normandy region attended the funeral of Fr. Jacques Hamel, the elderly priest who was murdered by two moron self-styled jihadists in his church during morning services last week.  And we learned more about the life of Hamel - at the service, his sister told of his days in the French military, refusing a promotion so that he would not have to order his troops in Algeria to kill during the occupation which ended in 1962.

Dozens of injured civilians are recovering after barrel bombs of chlorine gas were dropped on Saraqeb town in northern Syria, which close to the spot where a Russian helicopter was shot down earlier killing five people.  It's not clear who is responsible for this war crime, but the government, rebels, and jihadists are suspected of using chlorine gas in the past.  Government forces also perfected the use of the crude but devastating barrel bomb, which are dropped out of hovering helicopters.

Nigerian troops killed 348 Shiite Muslims in a raid in the north during December.  A judicial inquiry is recommending charges be filed against soldiers and leaders for the bloodshed during an attempt to arrest Shiite Muslim leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, who is suspected of plotting to kill the country's military chief.  President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to root out human rights abuses in the military.

Men in gowns:  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered civil service exams delayed over concerns that they discriminate against women.  Pope Francis ordered the Catholic Church to study whether women will be allowed to become deacons, which is one step below priest in the church.

Hey, did everyone see that wild sinkhole in Queensland?

No one was hurt in the collapse of a five-storey building in Nairobi, because it was evacuated a day earlier when cracks started to appear in the walls.  Unfortunately, the Kenyan capital has had a long-standing problem with shoddily construction buildings.