Hello, Australia! - Bronwyn is grounded as word of another big travel bill arises - If Turkey is at war with Islamic State, why are the Kurds suffering the heaviest casulties? - The horrific murder of a Palestinian baby is showing Israeli settlers under a harsh new light - The absolutely stupidest thing you will read today comes from Russia - And much more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has cancelled a tax-payer funded voyage to New York City as the controversy over her questionable travel expenses rages.  The trip to the United States for an international summit of parliamentary speakers in at the end of August had been planned before the current row, but it had not yet been sent to PM Tony Abbott, who would have to be completely daft to approve it under the current climate.  Bishop's office is refusing to comment on reports of yet another egregious compo:  A $6,000 private plane ride from Sydney to Nowra last year, to attend two seniors' forums and two fundraisers for local Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis.  The distance is only 160 kilometers.

When Parliament resumes on 10 August, Bronwyn Bishop will almost immediately face a no confidence motion.  Palmer United Party leader Clive Palmer and Independent MP Andrew Wilkie will bring it.  Wilkie says Bronwyn is "undoubtedly a serial abuser" of parliamentary entitlements, is "entirely unfit" to serve as speaker, and "must step down immediately from the position and repay every cent".  Labor already stated its intention to show no respect to the Speaker's chair as long as it is filled by Bishop.

The apparent new leader of the Afghanistan Taliban released an audio recording that rejects the peace process with teh Afghan government and vows to continue the extremist group's insurgency.  Last week, news emerged that long time leader Mullah Omar had actually been dead for two years, followed by the appointment of a new leader, Mullah Mansour.  But not all Taliban approve of the decision, and claim the decision goes against "sharia law".  It casts doubt on the unity of the Taliban as at least one faction seeks peace with Kabul.

Officials in Iraqi Kurdistan is asking the Kurdish PKK to withdraw from the area.  Turkey considers the PKK to be a terrorist separatist group and has carried out several bombing raids on Kurdish positions, killing at least 260 Kurds.  "We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again," Iraqi Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said in a statement.  Turkey is also supposedly bombing Islamic State targets.

Israeli Defense Forces killed two Palestinian teenagers in protests following the funeral of a Palestinian baby burned to death, allegedly by Israeli settlers.  One 17-year old was cut down by an IDF sniper after allegedly throwing a petrol bomb at apolice box near Ramallah; the other, also aged 17, was among a group that allegedly rushed the border fence in northern Gaza. 

The burning death of 18-month old Ali Saad Dawabsheh is prompting calls for the government to get tough with settler violence.  The IDF already labelled the arson attack as "Jewish Terrorism".   Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog says Israel must treat it the same way as it treats Palestinian violence.  "I would label as terrorist entities, The Lehava organization, the Marzelites, and La Familia," wrote Herzog on social media, referring to two ultra-right organizations and a racist football hooligan group respectively. "I would consider destroying the homes of these terrorists.  Everything that applies to Islamic terror is applicable here too," Herzog added. 

Three members of Osama Bin Laden's family and their Jordanian pilot were killed when their private jet overshot the runway at Blackbushe Airport in Hampshire, UK and crashed in flames.  The terrorist Bin Laden came from a wealthy family of more than 50 siblings, and it's pretty doubtful that these folks on in ill-fated holiday flight to England had any contact with him before his killing by US Navy Seals in 2011.  The Bin Laden family disowned Osama in 1994. 

The plane part that washed up on a beach in French La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean has arrived in Paris for analysis.  It's believed to be the only known piece of wreckage from Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 which disappeared more than a year ago. 

In the stupidest thing you're going to read today, Russia is considering a ban on Gay Emoji.  So, no more little smiley faces kissing if they depict same sex smiley faces.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is defending his former Economy Minister Yanis Varoufakis over reports Yanis planned to resurrect the Drachma as a parallel currency while Greece dealt with its European creditors.  Tsipras said opponents could criticize Yanis for his eclectic taste in shirts (he likes them tight and colorful), but Yanis is definitely did nothing wrong in coming up with alternative plans to protect the Greek economy.

Serbian police questioned eleven people in a lottery fixing probe.  Suspicions arose when during a recent drawing of winning numbers, the live broadcasters showed the numbers before they were actually drawn from ball-juggling lotto machine.  No one won that One Million Euro jackpot.

Japanese police arrested the head of the Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange, which infamously went belly-up early last year.  The equivalent of A$253 Million in Bitcoins and A431 Million disappeared in the process.  30-year old Mark Karpeles is charged with falsely inflating the value of his account on the exchangeby about a million dollars.  A conviction could net him five years in prison.  It's not clear if Karpeles' alleged actions are related to the larger Mt. Gox scandal.

Italian authorities are likely to return some US$420,000 they confiscated from rapper Snoop Dogg at an airport in Calabria.  His management says it was payment for performances around Europe.  Last week, Snoop blated Swedish authorities who stopped him for alleged drugs possession as a case of "racial profiling".