Hello Australia!! - Scientists want to halt or move the Olympics because of Brazil's Zika emergency - A botched child custody case costs a Channel 9 producer his job - Johnny Depp is accused of grievous domestic abuse - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

More than a hundred leading scientists have written an open letter to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), urging that the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio be delayed or moved because of the Zika outbreak.  The mosquito-borne virus has been linked to thousands of cases of the birth defect microcephaly in Brazil, as well as other serious maladies.  Earlier this month, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it sees no reason to delay or move the games due to Zika.  (UPDATE:  The WHO has rejected the idea, in part because moving the Olympics would "not significantly alter" the spread of the virus, and in part to ruin my lead story.  So, phhfffft on those guys)

A panel of judges in Argentina sentenced former junta leader Reynaldo Bignone to 20 years in prison for crimes committed under Operation Condor - the vile, US-approved conspiracy of South American fascist dictators and militarists to kidnap and kill thousands of left-wing activists during the 1970s and '80s.  Another defendant, former Uruguayan Colonel Manuel Cordero - the only non-Argentine - was jailed for 25 years.  More than a dozen other defendants await sentencing.  Bignone is already serving life sentences for human rights abuses committed from 1976 through 1983. 

The US Military says coalition air strikes killed dozens of Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Falluja, including the terrorist group's military commander.  The Americans and Iraq military says the 50,000 civilians trapped in the town should avoid areas controlled by Islamic State, and put white sheets on their roofs to wave off potential air strikes.

Meanwhile, Turkey is butthurt over a photograph showing US Special Forces in Syria wearing of the valiant Kurdish YPG - the Socialist militia is actually one of the most effective fighting forces against the terrorists of Islamic State.  But Turkey considers the YPG to be a separatist terrorist group, and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called the US "two-faced".  The Pentagon said the use of the YPG insignia was "unauthorized" and ordered personnel to remove the patches.

The producer of Channel 9's "60 Minutes" has been sacked after the farce that was the attempted abduction of an Australian woman's children from their father in Lebanon.  The broadcaster concluded that "inexcusable errors" were made in the planning of the documentary, which would have followed Sally Faulkner and a "child recovery team" as they snatched the kids from their father, former surfing instructor Ali El-Amin - who denies taking the kids to Lebanon without the mum's permission.  Faulkner and the Channel 9 team were arrested and jailed until she agreed to allow the kids to stay with their dad.  Two British men and two Lebanese men are still in jail.

A Los Angeles judge granted a restraining order against "Pirates of the Caribbean" actor Johnny Depp.  His wife of just over a year actress Amber Heard is seeking a divorce, and provided the court with photos of bruises on her face she says were caused by Depp during a violent row in their Hollywood penthouse on Saturday.  Ms. Heard says it was the third time that Mr. Depp attacked her.

US President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on Friday, the first sitting US President to do so.  President Obama told an audience that the memory of the US Atomic Bombing of the city on 6 August 1945 must never fade - but he did not apologize for the US' wartime action there, or in Nagasaki.

Meanwhile back in Tokyo, a Korean Airlines jet caught fire at Haneda Airport, forcing more than 300 passengers and crew to evacuate down the emergency chutes (caught on video!).  Flight 2708 was preparing to hop over the Seoul when one of the engines started to spout smoke.  No injuries.

An ad for a Chinese brand of laundry detergent is being called "the most racist commercial in the world".  In it, a Chinese woman shoves a tablet of Qiaobi laundry detergent into the mouth of a black man, puts him the laundry, and he emerges as a sparkling clean Chinese guy.  With too much make-up.  Apparently, the morons at Qiaobi haven't pulled the commercial and apologized yet.

The man credited with inventing the Heimlich Maneuver to save people choking on obstructions in their airways has used the technique for the first time.  Dr. Henry Heimlich is 96-years old and retired, living in rest home in his native Cincinnati.  One of his fellow residents, an 87-year old woman, choked on a hamburger.  But Henry sprang into action and followed the instructions he came up with in 1974:  "After three compressions, this piece of meat came out, and she just started breathing, her whole face changed," Dr. Heimlich said.  "I sort of felt wonderful about it, just having saved that girl," he added.