Australia will return to MH17’s crash site – Russia ‘kidnaps’ a neighboring country’s border patrol officer – Why are there Sharia Law police in Germany? – The God of Thunder says “Rock is finally dead” – And much, much more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australia and Malaysia are sending forensic teams to the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine before winter sets in.  They’ll search for any unrecovered human remains still at the crash site and return them to their loved ones.  Nearly 300 people including more than 30 Australians were on MH17 in July when it was shot out of the sky over eastern Ukraine – likely by Russian-backed rebels.

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine say a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow-backed rebels is holding.  They’re now discussing aid for eastern Ukraine, where five months of fighting have left 2,600 people dead and shattered infrastructure.  But, both sides are accusing each other of using the truce to reload, and at the close of the NATO summit in Wales, US President Barack Obama expressed skepticism about the cease-fire.

Estonia insists its border with Russia is secure, after the Russians arrested – or ‘abducted – an Estonian security official.  Russia insists the man was arrested on its side of the border and is reportedly preparing espionage charges.  it happened just days after US President Barack Obama appeared in Estonia to reassure Baltic and eastern European members of NATO that the alliance will stand with them.  Those countries are largely former Warsaw pact nations that switched to the west after the Iron Curtain fell.

German police say they will not tolerate a self-styled Sharia Law patrol of young Muslims enforcing Islamic law on local Muslims.  This is happening in Wupperthal, a western city known for its scenic hanging Monorail public transportation system.  About a dozen of bearded young men in orange vests marked “Shariah Police” took it upon themselves to patrol around discos and pubs, declaring a “Sharia-controlled zone”.

The eastern African terrorist group al-Shabaab confirms that a US airstrike killed its leader Ahmed Godane last week.  It’s a major blow to al Qaeda’s biggest ally in Africa.  Al Shabaab is blamed for the last year’s bloody attack on the Westgate mall in Nairobi, which killed more than 67 people.  Godane is believed to have shifted al-Shabaab’s focus from local grudges to global jihad in line with al Qaeda.  The group appointed a new leader and is vowing revenge.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says Sierra Leone’s radical plan to contain Ebola isn’t going to help.  Sierra Leone will impose a four-day, countrywide “lockdown” beginning on 18 September.  Citizens will not be allowed to leave their homes in a bid to prevent the disease from spreading further and allow health workers to identify cases in the early stages of the illness.  Doctors Without Borders says they’ve seen it before – and it only drives Ebola patients underground, breaks the trust between patients and medical care providers, and spreads the disease further.  Ebola’s death toll in West Africa has passed 2,100 and officials fear almost ten times as many will be touched by the outbreak.

Jamaica says it has identified a debris field from a runaway airplane from the United States that crashed off its northeastern shore.  The US had scrambled two F-15 fighters jets to track the private plane, in which a land developer from upstate New York was flying to Florida with his wife.  Somewhere above the eastern seaboard, the plane lost pressure – pilots say the runaway plane’s windows fogged over from the inside and the pilot slumped over the controls.  The two likely died of hypoxia long before the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in the Caribbean Sea.

North Korea says it will repatriate a South Korean man who tried to relocate to the hermit kingdom, apparently because he failed to find love at home.  Yep, that’s totally stupid.  Pyongyang says the man will be returned via the truce village of Panmunjom on 11 September.  It’s being viewed as a good will gesture from North to South.

Former El Salvador president Francisco Flores turned himself in to authorities after a month on the run, and is under house arrest.  The conservative ARENA party politician denies charges of misappropriating more than A$16 Million during his term in office that ended a decade ago.  The US is investigating suspicious transfers in Flores’ bank accounts.

WTH, Egypt?  The top prosecutor in Cairo charged seven men with “debauchery”, which is the charge usually leveled at LGBT people, after a video of a same-sex wedding party surfaced.  Officials described the video as showing a “devilish shameless party” of fully clothed men putting rings on each other’s fingers and hugging – in other words, less explicit than a Village People video from nigh 35 years ago.  Grow the hell up, Egypt.

Up-and-coming singer Simone Battle is dead of apparent suicide at age 25.  The Los Angeles-based singer won the American version of “The X Factor” and was a featured performer in the girl group “G.R.L.” which is a reboot of “The Pussycat Dolls”, which is to say “the music isn’t the part of this act that we’re selling”.  No disrespect to the departed, but is this really the world we wanted for our daughters?

Business Murdered Rock and Roll

Gene Simmons is back in the news, and not for bashing people struggling with depression or telling the poor to suck it up and worship the rich.  Dr. Love is pulling the sheet over the patient's face and declaring, “Rock is finally dead.”  Blaming the music business and record companies that no longer support young artists Simmons says, “The death of rock was not a natural death.  Rock did not die of old age.  It was murdered.  Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed, and now it won’t, because it’s that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs.  No one will pay you to do it.”

Simmons adds he fears the next Bob Dylan or Beatles will not be able to find an audience.  “There are still record companies, and it does apply to pop, rap, and country to an extent. But for performers who are also songwriters – the creators – for rock music, for soul, for the blues - it’s finally dead.  Rock is finally dead.”