Hello Australia! - Malcolm disappoints the hawks and rules out Aussie troops in Syria - Thailand charges two men in the Erawan shrine bombing - A case of political correctness seems to be doing more harm than good - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull gave his first national security speech in Parliament, urging Australians to keep a cool head about terrorism.  Mr. Turnbull declared Islamic State to be full of hype, with "many more smartphones than guns, many more Twitter accounts than soldiers".  He said Australia will likely see another terror attack on its soil - but stressed that overreacting to the Paris attacks by sending combat troops to Syria would accomplish nothing.  "This is not a time for gestures or machismo," he said, "Calm, clinical, professional, effective - that's how we defeat this menace."

The US has issued a worldwide travel alert to its citizens because of terror threats.  The state department says that its latest information suggest that Islamic State (IS), Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and others are planning "terrorist attacks in multiple regions".  The alert is effective through next February.

A Thai military court has charged two men with the bombing at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine.  The two suspects, identified as Bilal Mohammad and Mieraili Yusufu, were indicted on 10 counts.  They're described as ethnic Uighurs from China's northwestern Xinjiang region, from where Muslim separatists have launched several deadly attacks across China.  The 17 August bombing that killed 20 people at the popular shrine was one of Bangkok's worst acts of violence.

Scores of migrants spent the night camped out on the Greek side of that country's border with Macedonia - some with their lips sewn shut in protest - as the Balkan nations limit which groups can pass through on their way to northern Europe.  After having well more than half a million people trek across the mountains, Macedonia and others and now only granting access to people fleeing conflicts - such as in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  Europe's border controls are under intense scrutiny since the attacks in Paris on 13 November, after police learned at least two of the attackers posedas asylum seekers as they passed through Greece and the Balkans.

You know how usually when you hear someone complaining about "political correctness", they actually just want to say something really racist or sexist?  In Canada, there may finally be a case of political correctness going too far.  The University of Ottawa's student union abruptly the Yoga class that Jen Scharf had been teaching for seven years, because of concerns about "cultural genocide", colonialism and "Western supremacy".  Apparently there had been some complaints that unless the course went back to its Hindu roots, it was an example of stolen culture.  Which is completely nuts, because just south of the border US religious conservatives are on a rampage against Yoga, believing that it lures young people into a Pagan religion.  SMDH.  Teh worst part is that Ms. Scharf's class specialized in teaching Yoga to disabled students - now, the class has no home on campus.

A US lab says it has bred a mosquito that resists the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria, which kills about 580,000 people per year.  Bed nets and insecticides are the most common means to fight the infection.  The University of California team says that when the bugs mate, their offspring retain the resistance.  In theory, if these mosquitoes bite people, they should not be able to pass on the parasite that causes malaria.