The difficult work of rebuilding Australia’s relations with Indonesia lie ahead – The US internet spies are getting really personal – And a roof cave in brings down a government.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is poised to fly to Jakarta to try and resolve the Spying Crisis, as soon as Indonesia signals it is ready.  Officials there are upset over the revelations in the Snowden Documents showed that Australian spies bugged the phones of Dr Yudhoyono, his wife and other members of Jakarta's elite.  Indonesia is expected to seek strict concessions and controls on surveillance.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on the online porn-watching habits of six individuals in hopes of discrediting them at some later date.  That’s according to the latest revelations from the Snowden Documents and reporter Glenn Greenwald.  None of the six individuals identified in the document is accused of being involved in terrorist plots, although they are suspected of “radicalizing” others into radical Islamist movements.

Latvia's Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis resigned in the wake of a supermarket roof cave-in that killed 54 people.  The move ramps up political instability in the tiny country of just over two million people, just weeks before his country is supposed to switch over its currency and enter the Eurozone.  Meanwhile, the city of Riga and the central government have announced investigations into the supermarket disaster, the worst loss of life in Latvia since the end of the Soviet era.

Angela Merkel will return for a third term as Chancellor after her conservative Christian Union hammered out a coalition deal with the Social Democrats.  The agreement lowers Germany’s retirement age and raises the minimum wage to the equivalent of A$12.65 per hour.  Obviously, that was for the SDs.. the conservatives secured a promise of no tax increases.

Moscow cops arrested fifteen suspected radical Islamists, and confiscated bombs, hand grenades, and guns.  The raids targeted a banned group calling itself “At-Takfir Wal-Hijra”, and comes two months before the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The Obama administration has announced another delay to President Obama’s flagship piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act.  The marketplace website allowing small businesses to buy health coverage for their workers is being put off by one year until November 2014.  Employers who want to take part can still do so, but they have to go directly to individual insurance companies to get the “Obamacare” rates.

Wildlife officials say drought forced thousands of Wildebeest to return to Kenya several months earlier than usual, something that environmentalists say they’ve never seen before.  The animals had migrated to Tanzania, as usual, just a couple of months ago.  But that area of Africa has been suffering drought, and the pasture was very sparse.  Officials with Kenya's Mara-Serengeti ecosystem say the Wildebeest appear to be thin.