Hello Australia!! - The circle tightens around British PM May - Adam West who played Batman on TV is dead - Richard Hammond is hospitalized after flipping another car - China moves to fill the world leadership gap left by the orange clown - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

British Prime Minister Theresa May found herself increasingly isolated on Saturday with the resignations of her two closest aides.  Fellow UK Conservatives blamed the influence of Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill for the lackluster campaign that led to the Tories losing their parliamentary majority in last week's election.  It's not clear if this will be enough to Ms. May in Number 10, and other than a few top party leaders there has been no expression of confidence in her leadership.  An unscientific poll on a website for Tory activists showed 60 percent wanted Ms. May to step down.

Downing Street has confirmed the Tories have reached a "confidence and supply" agreement with the reactionary-loony-nutjob-with-links-to-terrorism DUP of Northern Ireland to keep itself in power.  This means that in exchange for the DUP's support on key votes, the Conservatives will adopt parts of the DUP manifesto.  And given that DUP doubt climate change and evolution while rejecting reproductive rights and gay marriage, that's not a good prospect.  But a list of 45 demands on an unused list drawn up in 2015 indicate the DUP will ask for right-wing populism - infrastructure spending in the six countries and tighter borders to keep out immigrants.  In other words, pork-barrel politics.

Adam West, who played Batman in the campy 1960s TV show, is dead at age 88 after a "short but brave battle" with leukemia. 
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He was already established in Hollywood after a decade of playing in TV westerns and private detective shows when he signed on as the Caped Crusader from 1966 through 1968.  But he was typecast and had difficulty getting good work after that, hitting a professional nadir in 1980's "The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood" (seriously, that happened).  West's career renaissance came in 2000 when he began to play a demented version of himself as the mayor of the fictional Quahog, Rhode Island in the animated "Family Guy". 
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Voice-over work piled on from there.  His last credit will be an animated return to the roll that made him famous in "Batman Vs. Two-Face", reuniting him with Burt Ward as Robin and Julie Newmar as Catwoman - the casting suggests the project will bring the 1960s sense of humor back to the gig.

Former "Top Gear" co-host Richard Hammond was hurt and flown to hospital while filming his new show "The Grand Tour".  Hammond crashed a AU$1.3 Million Rimac Concept One electric supercar on a curvy road in Switzerland.  Producers said Hammond "climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames", and co-host Jeremy Clarkson said that Hammond suffered a fractured knee.  Hammond was nearly killed eleven years ago when he lost control of a dragster while filming his previous show Top Gear in New York state.

A car flipped over and crashed into a passenger bus speeding in the oncoming direction, killing the car's driver and injuring more than 45 people on the bus.  This happened on the Tomei expressway southwest of Nagoya, Japan.  Dash cams on the bus captured the crash from two angles.

US Special Forces are aiding Philippine troops in fighting Islamist guerillas in the southern Philippine city of Marawi.  More than a dozen Philippine Marines were kill in fighting on Friday.  Although thousands of civilians fled the city at the onset of the conflict, there are still many people trapped in Marawi between fighting forces.

Argentine security forces last week searched the official residence of President Mauricio Macri.  Officials are seeking documents related to a possible fraud case involving airline companies.  La Nacion reports that prosecutors are looking for evidence of Macri's involvement in alleged irregularities arising from the sale of MacAir Airlines and the entry of Avianca, its buyer, into the market for low cost flights.

Hours after Brazil's electoral court rejected a case that threatened to unseat unelected President Michel Temer for alleged illegal campaign funding in the 2014 election, Temer was denying new allegations that he ordered spying on the judge investigating him for corruption.  Veja magazine reports a presidential aide accused Temer of asking the Brazilian Intelligence Agency to spy on Edson Fachin - the justice investigating bribery allegations and the audio recording of Temer discussing the payment of hush money to a jailed former colleague.  The president of the Supreme Court and prosecutors blasted the specter of internal spying as the dirty work of low-life dictators. shop at choppings.cc

Raise your hand if you totally expected this:  China is taking advantage of Donald Trump's utter incompetence to increase its influence in Asia and the rest of the world, say the international diplomacy experts.  In recent weeks, Trump has surrendered American leadership in battling Climate Change, berated his closest allies over non-existent debt to NATO, and aggravated an unnecessary rift among America's Arab partners.  "The lack of US leadership, particularly on global issues like climate change and on trade and economic issues in the region, the withdrawal from the TPP, has clearly created a vacuum China is trying to fill," said Ely Ratner, a China specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations.  "The Chinese Premier heading to Europe and standing with Angela Merkel in Germany just as President Trump was announcing the pull out of the Paris Climate accord — the timing could not have been more pointed," echoed Meredith Sumpter, a Washington-based Asia expert for the Eurasia.

Arab states are ignoring US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's plea for calm and moderation with Qatar, after the orange clown Trump undercut Tilelrson's efforts to slow the crisis.  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others cut off economic and diplomatic relations with Qatar over extremely questionable accusations of funding terrorism.  Trump's motivations are a mystery, since the US has more than 10,000 troops and a lot of expensive military hardware stationed in Qatar.  Meanwhile, human rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the Saudi bloc of "toying with the lives of thousands Gulf residents as part of their dispute with Qatar".