Hello Australia!! - Breakthrough at the climate talks - The Yellow Vests return to Paris - Japan's sexist Med School scandal gets worse - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

After a delay and an extension of the COP24 talks in Katowice, Poland, nearly 200 nations have agreed on rules to implementing the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, which seeks to limit global warming to less than 2 C Degrees above pre-industrial levels.  "It has been a long road," said the chairman of the talks Michal Kurtyka, "We did our best to leave no-one behind."  But environmentalist critics say this deal is too weak, too little, and hopefully not too late:  "A year of climate disasters and a dire warning from the world’s top scientists should have led to so much more," said Greenpeace executive director Jennifer Morgan, "Instead, governments let people down again as they ignored the science and the plight of the vulnerable."  The two week negotiations were marked with complaints that the biggest carbon emitters weakened key standards for stopping cliamte change.

Yellow Vest protesters returned to the streets of Paris and other French cities for a fifth consecutive weekend, although in greatly reduced numbers.  Authorities say 66,000 mostly-peaceful demonstrators marched through the Champs Elysees, compared to 125,000 at the movement's peak.  Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the rowdy ones and more than 150 arrests were reported by the end of the day; but then, everything got back to normal.  The Yellow Vest protests started out as a movement against rising fuel prices, but morphed into a larger opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's leadership and the high cost of living.  Macron made several concessions, but did not raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for them.

Ukrainian Orthodox officials sealed their divorce from the Russian church, choosing a leader independent from Moscow.  Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told senior priests that the new church was "a question of our Ukrainian national security, of our statehood".  This underscored the geopolitical dangers involved:  The Russian church has condemned it and broke off relations with the Orthodox mothership in Turkey for giving its blessing to the schism; this split the 300 million members in two, with half following Constantipole and half following Moscow.  There are nationalist sentiments perforating the entire process, not to mention the unsettled status of Russian Orthodox properties in Ukraine.

The number of Japanese medical schools that manipulated testing and admissions data to deny placement to female students has grown to nine.  The scandal came to light in August when Tokyo Medical University (TMU) was found to have tampered with the scores of female applicants, for idiotic and sexist reasons such as the misguided notion that women would leave medicine as soon as they found a husband.  Another claimed it had to limit female students to help the men, who were not as mature as the women (They.  Literally.  Said that.).  The growing scandal is a huge setback to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's stated goal of getting more women into the overall workforce and into management roles.

Egypt announced a big archeological discovery, a virtually intact tomb of a high priest found in the Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo - also known as the "step pyramid".  The chamber has been untouched for 4,400 years.  It contains colorful hieroglyphs, statues of pharaohs, and other ancient goodies.