Hello Australia!! - Turkey reportedly shares proof of a journalists's murder in the Saudi consulate - Corporations and media pull out of a key Saudi conference - Searchers in Florida find tragedy beneath the ruins - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US and Turkish officials told The Washington Post there are audio and video recordings proving that dissident Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured, murdered, and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.  The audio is said to be particularly gruesome.  Mr. Khashoggi - a Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian citizen with US residency - entered the consulate in Istanbul on 2 October to sign some papers and has not been seen in public since.  It's not clear how Turkey obtained this evidence, whether it be by clandestine recording device inside the consulate or by intercepting communications from inside - but it has apparently been shared with the top levels of the US government.

The specter of murder is casting doubt on Saudi Arabia's efforts to reform its public image under King Salman and his son Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.  Most of the big media outlets that had promised to sponsor Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative conference on 23 October, including:  The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Economist, CNN, CNBC, and the Financial Times.  Several top business leaders have pulled out of the conference as well, and UK tycoon Sir Richard Branson has halted talks over a potential Saudi investment of US$1 Billion in Virgin's space tourism venture.

Turkey has released US pastor once accused of supporting the failed coup attempt in 2016.  Christian missionary Andrew Brunson had been detained and recently sentenced to three years in prison for his alleged role, charges he denies.  The case had been a major stumbling block in relations between Washington and Ankara.  More than 50,000 people had been arrested in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup crackdown.

The ABC has details of an investigation revealing an alt-right scheme to infiltrate mainstream Australian politics.

All 510 passengers on a German Intercity-Express (ICE) train were evacuated to safety when flames swept through two cars of the high-speed line.  Despite the dramatic video, only five people were hurt and most were able to get back to complete Cologne to Munich within a few hours.

The death toll from Hurricane Michael is now at least 13 lives lost, as searchers locate bodies inside and around devastated homes in Mexico Beach.  Another five people were killed by flooding in Virginia, where Michael dumped inches of rain after being downgraded to a tropical storm.  It's now headed back out to see over the Atlantic Ocean.

The search and rescue operation is over in and around Palu City, two weeks after the twin disasters of a powerful earthquake and a tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.  The official death toll is 2,088, but thousands remain missing including hundreds of children.  Aid workers say around 300 children who survived the catastrophe have been separated from their families, and it's not clear if their relatives are dead or alive.  Almost half a million more urgently need assistance.