Hello Australia!! - Labor scores in the NT - Italy mourns some of its earthquake dead - The irrational behavior of the governor of a US state is leading some to question his sanity - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Labor won the Northern Territories election, taking 18 of the 25 seats in parliament.  "Tonight, no doubt, is a landslide, it's a thumping," said outgoing Chief Minister Adam Giles.  "I don't think anyone would describe it as anything different," he added.  Replacing him as Chief Minister will be Michael Gunner, who said voters "rejected the chaos of the last four years", which was marked by infighting among the Country Liberals, and thanked voters for placing their "trust in Labor."

Singapore is reporting its first locally-transmitted case of Zika.  The patient is a 47-year old woman who has not traveled abroad, which pretty much limits the space in which she was infected.  Zika is mostly transmitted by mosquitoes and is blamed for thousands of birth defects in Brazil. 

Italy held a mass funeral for 35 of the 290 people killed in last week's destructive earthquake in the central, mountainous region northeast of Rome.  These victims were from the town of Arquata, and were brought to the regional capital Ascoli Piceno to be mourned.  "Together, above all we will restore life to our communities, starting from our traditions and from the rubble of death," said Bishop Giovanni d'Ercole before a crowd that included Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and President Sergio Mattarella.

Syrian government barrel bombs killed at least 15 civilians in a rebel-held district of eastern Aleppo.  Activists and reporters say the first exploded on a group of people receiving condolences from an attack last week, and the second fell after ambulances had arrived.  The UN is giving all sides until today to clearly state if they will abide by a proposed ceasefire to allow aid convoys to get into the besieged city and help trapped civilians.

Bangladesh forces raided a terrorist hide-out on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing three - including the alleged mastermind of last month's attack on the Holy Artisan Cafe in the capital's international district, during which 22 people died.  Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury returned to the land of his birth in 2013 and led a banned Islamist group.  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina praised police and intelligence agencies for the operation.

The brother-in-law of one of the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris is now charged with trying to join Islamic State in Syria.  20-year old Mourad Hamyd made it as far as Bulgaria, where authorities caught him in July.  His sister was married to gunman Cherif Kouachi, one of the scumbag cowardly brothers who killed twelve people in the offices of satirical comic magazine Charlie Hebdo in January, 2015, before they were tracked down a couple of days later and killed in a gunfight with police.

The governor of the state of Maine in the far northeast of the US is bat-shyte insane.  Opposition Democrats are calling on Republican governor Paul LePage to step down and seek psychiatric help after LePage left an extremely angry, racist, and homophobic voice mail for a state lawmaker.  Referring to the man as a "socialist c**ksucker", LePage later tried to explain himself by saying he wanted to murder the lawmaker in a shooting duel.  And then LePage went on to declare African-Americans and Mexicans "the enemy" in the so-called war on drugs.  All, while visible agitated and spitting mad.  Oh, and he's one of fascist demagogue Donald Trump's top endorsers.

Communist guerillas killed seven soldiers in an attack in northern Paraguay.  It's an unusually high body count for the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP), which number only a few score fighters.  The group has been operating in the impoverished north of the country for about a decade, and is suspected of getting training from Colombia's FARC - which has just reached a peace deal with the Colombian government to end its five decade civil war and join the political process.

In Moscow, a faulty lamp sparked a fire that swept a printing plant and warehouse, killing 17 workers from Kyrgyzstan.  Investigators opened a criminal case after the fire due to safety breaches.

Samba in Tokyo.