Hello Australia!! - Dozens of people are hurt in Europe because they did the exact wrong thing when threatening weather came - What's behind the refusal to move the Olympics from Brazil, where the Zika virus is causing so much trouble? - Brazil deals with a jarring crime - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Lightning strikes injured more than 40 people - most of them children - in freak occurrences in France and Germany.  Eleven people were hurt in Parc Monceau in Paris because they sought shelter underneath a tree which was then hit with lightning.  Three of the injured are in hospital in a life-threatening condition.  A little bit later across the border in western Germany, lightning struck a children's football match in Hoppstaedten, leaving 35 children and adults injured.

A former Australian chief health officer is adding his voice to those seeking to move or delay the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro because of Brazil's widespread Zika outbreak.  "Putting 500,000 people in there and then giving them a chance to get infected, sending them all home to their other countries is just an unimaginably risky thing to tolerate," said Professor Charles Watson of Curtin University, former Chief Health Officer of WA, noting that it only takes one infected person to spread the virus back home.  "At a minimum, they should screen all people coming back from Brazil after the period of the Games and make sure they're given the right advice," he added.  Professor Watson concedes that any change to the Olympic plan is "unlikely at this stage" because of the immense international commercial interests.

Yesterday, the UN World Health Organization rejected an open letter from 150 leading scientists calling for the Summer Games to be delayed or moved from Rio because of Zika.  The mosquito-borne virus has been associated with a wave of neurological problems in infected patients, as well as thousands of cases of abnormally small skulls and brains in babies born to infected mothers.  "All the information available today," said Senior WHO official Bruce Aylward, "suggests that the games should definitely go ahead."  Still, WHO is urging pregnant women to avoid traveling to the Zika Zone or being with partners who've recently traveled there. 

Brazilian police believe they've identified four of the 33 men who allegedly gang raped a 16-year old girl and posted the video online, a shocking and troubling crime even in a country that reports a rape every eleven minutes.  The girl says she believes she was drugged, as she went to her boyfriend's house but woke up in another building, surrounded by the men.  She's also gratified by the widespread protests in her support, because she was afraid of being condemned for coming forward as has happened with too many sexual assault victims. 

Critics are blasting Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak for supporting a bill to add Islamic Sharia Law to the criminal code, believing it to be a cynical ploy to shore up support from predominantly Muslim ethnic Malays in the next election.  But the bill has practically no chance of being passed, because of intense opposition from the ethic Chinese and Indian communities, and also that Najib's ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party doesn't have a full majority.  It seems like a risky thing to even put out there, considering that the bill includes includes floggings and amputations.

The US military imposed a month-long curfew and ban on alcohol at its base in Okinawa, Japan after a US civilian employee reportedly admitted to murdering a Japanese woman.  A Pentagon statement said there would be no "celebrations and parties while the Okinawan people are in mourning".  The killing has reignited long standing resentment to the US military presence on the part of some Okinawans, and mucked up plans to relocate the base to a less-populated part of the island.