Hello Australia! - Trouble on two ships at Melbourne's Station Pier - France's female suicide bomber is described as a lost soul who never opened a Koran in her life - A Navy boat reportedly tows asylums seekers back out to sea near Christmas Island - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Police evacuated two vessels at Melbourne's Station Pier after sniffer dogs detected "something suspicious".  They evacuated passengers from the Spirit of Tasmania ferry and the cruise liner Noordam, leaving them wondering what's going on.  Fairfax Media quotes a local vendor saying that police told him that explosives had been found on one of the vessels, but that is unconfirmed.

An Indonesian fishing boat with asylum seekers got within a couple of hundred meters of the jetty at Christmas Island's Flying Fish Cove, but was intercepted by a navy patrol boat.  Christmas Island shire president Gordon Thomson told Sky news, "I saw the navy patrol boat towing the Indonesian fishing boat out to sea away from Christmas Island."  Labor's immigration spokesman Richard Marles says the government must immediately explain what happened to the people on board that ship, or if it was even seaworthy.  "It is unacceptable for this Liberal government to refuse to answer questions about this reported vessel and instead continue to peddle the phrase 'operational matters'  - this is nothing more than a tired, lazy slogan for suppressing facts from the Australian community," Mr. Marles said in a statement.

Kuwait is charging two Australians with trying to smuggle trying to smuggle high-tech anti-aircraft missiles into Syria.  The two are not in Kuwait, but if they are arrested and found guilty, they could face the death penalty in the conservative oil kingdom.  A statement from the Kuwait government identifies the men as Hisham Mohammad Zahab and Rabih Zahab, although the surname can also be translated into English as Dahab and Thahab.

French prosecutors say the planner of last week's terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people had set the scheme in motion eleven months ago, probably as part of a larger scheme to sew violence across Europe.  Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been linked to several terror plots, four of which came to fruition and took lives.  European capitals on are high alert: Italy is searching for five terror suspects; Sweden arrested a man with alleged links to Islamic State; German officials reveal that Tuesday's football match in Hannover was cancelled at the last minute because of a threat of "numerous" bombs planted at the stadium, although none were found.

Family members say the woman who blew herself up in the raid on a jihadist group north of Paris was "unstable" and possibly "brainwashed" when she set off a suicide bomb.  26-year old Hasna Ait Boulahcen died in the raid in Saint-Denis on Wednesday morning, during which police shot and killed her cousin - Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the terrorist attacks that left 129 people dead in Paris one week ago.  "She was unstable, she created her own bubble," said Boulahcen's brother, painting a picture of a somewhat delusional young woman.  "She wasn't looking to study religion, I have never even seen her open a Koran."  The family members say she lived with them up until three weeks ago - and the next thing they know, they turned on the TV and she was blowing herself up with a nest of jihadists. 

A former classmate describes Boulahcen as "vulnerable", and having been bounced between foster homes.  Neighbors were shocked as well, saying that they used to refer to her as a "tomboy" and a "cowgirl" - because before she started wearing the traditional Islamic headgear, she frequently wore jeans and oversized cowboy-style hats.  Friends also recall drinking alcohol with her, something which is frowned upon in the dour and fun-less world of Islamic State.