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There is travel chaos in Western Europe, because of a rail strike in France and a computer glitch in air traffic coordination agency EuroControl.  About half of all European flights - that's around 15,000 - are having problems with delays of various lengths.  EuroControl insisted there "are no safety implications arising from this incident" which it hoped to have solved by Tuesday night.  "We have never had anything like this before," a EuroControl spokesman said.

French unions are striking back against Emmanuel Macron's labor "reforms" with the rail strike.  Dubbed "Black Tuesday", it's actually the kick-off to three months of job actions meant to pressure the French president into backing off pledges of increased privatization, and fewer controls on hiring and firings.  Commuters are especially hard hit as light lines in and out of Paris have had their schedules slashed; some stations are jam packed while others were deserted; buses are hugely overcrowded.  This created an increase in auto traffic, and 420 kilometers of traffic jams as recorded by a website that measures car traffic around the French capital.

The UK had been quick to blame The Kremlin for the poisoning of Russian former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter; but the Porton Down defense laboratory says it cannot prove conclusively that the chemical agent used in the attack came from Russia.  However, the circumstantial evidence is revealing:  The poison has been identified as Novichok, invented in by the Soviets in the 1970s and passed down to Russia; the concentration is said to be "military grade"; it is extremely difficult to manufacture, with resources only a state actor can muster.  So, come on. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant.  That's right, Russia helping a NATO ally to build a nuke at a time when both are increasingly butting heads with The West.  The project had already started in 2015, but was put on hold after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane along the Syrian border - the two like-minded leaders have since repaired ties, and had a little ceremony with children in really, really outdated traditional costumes. 

Indonesian police are questioning the Chinese crew of a ship over a deadly oil spill off Borneo.  Investigators have detained the Panama-flagged MV Ever Judger in Balikpapan Bay and taken fuel samples to determine if it matches the spill, which ignited on Friday killing four fishers.  The state-owned refinery Pertamina runs pipelines across the bay, but insists it is not responsible.

Japan is restricting Australian barley imports because of high levels of the pesticide azoxystrobin, five times over the limit.  The Nissin Cisco company is voluntarily recalling 315,000 of its cereal products because of it this.  Inspectors are now examining all shipments of Aussie Barley, though the tainted supply was imported by the Japanese company ITOCHU, which really needs to fix its "caps lock" key.  Tokyo is expressing confidence in Australian agriculture:  "In the last 14-15 years, azoxystrobin has never been detected from Australian imports - not even a tiny amount," said a government spokesman to the ABC, "ITOCHU says something possibly happened between harvesting and shipping, perhaps during the cleaning process, but they are still investigating."

Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip has been admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in London for a hip operation on Wednesday.  Details have not been released, but the Duke of Edinburgh has had problems for about a month and cancelled a handful of public appearances because of it in recent days.

No one was hurt when a big rig truck stalled on some train tracks in the southern US state of Georgia, and was promptly slammed and dragged off by a speeding freight train.  Great video, though.

A conservative mayor in northern France might regret her April Fool's Day "joke".  Caroline Cayeux of Beauvais took to social media to announce that Ikea was supposedly going to build a big box store in town, hiring 4,000 people.  Later on, she said it was just a joke, and attempted some incredible reverse-engineering to portray it as an attempt to lure investment to town.  Instead, people took it as, "Ha ha ha ha, you're not really going to be employed, ha ha ha ha" - which is really something that couldn't go over well considering France's 9.2 percent unemployment rate.  Some tweeted back, "We're all voting for you in the next election - April Fool!"

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