Hello, Australia! - Egypt comes up with yet another ridiculous verdict in the Al Jazeera case - Austria rescues a group of ailing refugees including little children from a smuggler's van - Thailand arrests a suspect in the deadly shrine bombing - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

How about before we get to the death and destruction, we take a look at these Baby Snow Leopard Cubs!  The girls were born last month at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.

An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists, including Australia's Peter Greste, to prison for "spreading false news".  Two of the men were in court, and immediately taken into custody.  Greste was deported to Oz earlier this year and watched the verdict come down on live TV.  He says he is he "shocked, outraged, angry", not only for his comrades but for his own career situation - as an international correspondent, he will not be able to travel to any country with an extradition treaty with Egypt.  All three men had already spent a year in jail in the early phase of this obviously botched case, which has dragged on for nearly two years.  It will now continue with more appeals.

International human rights attorney Amal Clooney represented one of Greste's Al Jazeera colleagues, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy.  Outside the court in Cairo Clooney told the waiting media that the verdicts "send a dangerous message" about media freedom in Egypt, and that every third party that has examined the evidence against Greste, Fahmy, and Egyptian Baher Mohammed have concluded that there's nothing there to suggest the men aided the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in their reports out of Cairo. 

Austrian police found another van overstuffed with refugees - but after a brief chase, they managed to rescue the people before there were any fatalities.  Smugglers crammed 26 people from Syria, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh into the back of the vehicle, including three little children aged five and six.  The youngest ones were rushed to hospital in a critical condition with dehydration.  Police arrested the driver, a Romanian.

This comes as four suspects appeared in court for the first time in the case of the decomposing bodies of 71 refugees in the back of a meat truck on a highway near Hungary.  The men - three Bulgarians and an Afghan - had been arrested in Hungary and were remanded into custody until 29 September.  Austria is expected to seek their extradition.

Thailand arrested a suspect in the deadly bombing at the Erawan Shrine earlier this month, showing him off on TV along with what appeared to be a fake Turkish passport with the man's image.  Cops picked him up in a rundown apartment block on the outskirts of Bangkok, confiscating what they said was bomb-making equipment.  They're still insisting that the motive for the blast two weeks ago is not related to international terrorism.

Fire raced through the 22-storey Gagarin Plaza in Odessa, Ukraine, injuring two firefighters.  Local news reports indicate there was some sort of welding activity on the roof prior to the blaze, and that the building did not have functional internal fire supression sprinklers or alarms.

Tens of thousands of Malaysians defied the government's ban on demonstrations (and yellow t-shirts) and are holding two days of protests in Kuala Lumpur and other cities.  They're demanding answers about a mysterious US$700 Million payment made to the personal account of Prime Minister Najib Razak by unnamed "foreign donors".  He has repeatedly denied the money came from a crashed state development fund.  Protest leaders say they're not anti-government, but anti-corrupt politicians.

Something is rotten in Lebanon, and thousands of protesters in Beirut are demanding the resignation of the Environment Minister and fresh parliamentary elections.  This is because of the weeks of uncollected trash fouling the air of the Lebanese capital.  The campaign is called "#YouStink".  Previous protests have turned violent, and Amnesty International is calling for an independent investigation into allegations the state security force provoked clashes.

Nigeria security service is warning of a possible Boko Haram terrorist attack on the airport in the capital Abuja, after agents arrested a 14-year old boy who was allegedly spying on security procedures there.  They're now trying to find the boy's handlers.  Boko Haram's days as an occupying force appear to be ending as a multi-nation force keeps beating the terrorists back in Nigeria's northeast.  But the group has proven to just as disruptive by returning to its earlier hit-and-run tactics, and suicide bombings.

A horrible highway tragedy in Swaziland, one of the world's last absolute monarchies located in southern Africa.  A truck carrying women and girls to a controversial dancing festival crashed, killing at least 38 women and leaving 20 more badly injured.  They were on their way to a festival condemned by international rights groups in which the girls dance for the king, who picks a new bride from among them. 

WOW - This could have easily gone badly.  But a woman hiking in the woods in Connecticut in the US northeast was not harmed in a close encounter with a couple of Black Bears.  She's very lucky - standing around to record video while they tasted her legs is not recommended.