Hello Australia! - Afghanistan prepares to undo the Taliban's biggest victory in more than a decade - Paul Walker's daughter sues Porsche - New Zealand is doing something amazing - Baby Lions! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Afghan reinforcements have arrived at Kunduz airport to counter-attack the Taliban, which took control of the city on Monday.  It's Afghanistan's worst breach of security in 14 years.  Government troops and officials fled the northern city in the lightening attack and took up defensive positions at the airport as the Taliban overtook official buildings and the prison, freeing hundreds of inmates. 

After his meeting with US President Barack Obama (geez, those guys do not like each other) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York City, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is considering joining the US and its allies in conducting air strikes against Islamic State (IS) targets.  But the two are still clearly split on whether Bashar Al-Assad should still rule Syria after the civil war.  The US and France on Monday said that Assad must go, seeming to slow down the talk from Australia and the UK over the weekend which seemed resigned to keeping Assad in the short term.  Putin responded, "They aren't citizens of Syria and so should not be involved in choosing the leadership of another country."

Cuban President Raul Castro used his address at the UN General Assembly to call on the US to drop its trade embargo on the Communist island.  And unlike in years past, it's not just a abstract request - US President Barack Obama also wants the trade embargo lifted, and says he is confident that the US Congress will do so.  Less likely is Castro's other demand, that the US return the Guantanamo Bay military base.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key told the General Assembly that his country will create the one of the largest marine protected areas in the world.  At 620,000 square kilometers, the Kermadec ocean sanctuary (.pdf link) will be one of the world’s most significant fully protected ecosystems.  "Creating protected areas will support not only our own fisheries, but those of our Pacific neighbors, adding to New Zealand’s efforts to help grow Pacific economies through the responsible management of their ocean resources," said Mr. Key.

The daughter of the late actor Paul Walker is suing Porsche, claiming that the 2005 Carrera GT in which the "Fast and Furious" franchise star died lacked the basic "safety features that are found on well-designed racing cars or even Porsche's least expensive road cars".  Paul Walker was the passenger and his friend Roger Rodas was driving the GT on 30 November 2013 when it skidded out of control into a tree north of Los Angeles.  16-year old Meadow Walker's suit says the GT's poor seat belt design broke her father's pelvis and ribs, and pinned him in the car while the rubber gas lines broke and fueled the fire that killed him, confirming a horrific detail that cops previously denied.  The widow of Roger Rodas earlier filed a similar lawsuit against Porsche.

MTV "Nitro Circus" star Erik Roner was killed in a skydiving accident outside Sacramento in northern California.  The 39-year old was part of a three man diving team at the start of a celebrity gold tournament at Squaw Valley when he crashed into a very tall tree and became entangled.  Roner is survived by his wife and two children.

When UK Prime Minister David Cameron arrives in Jamaica for his first visit on Thursday, he probably won't be handed a bill for reparations for Britain's involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.  But the subject threatens to overshadow his goodwill and trade mission, after a prominent Caribbean academic called on the UK to pay reparations.  Writing in the Jamaica Observer, Sir Hilary Beckles of the University of the West Indies referenced the prime minister's ancestral links to the trade in the 1700s through his distant cousin, General Sir James Duff.  At least one MP in Kingston says he will boycott official events unless reparations are on the agenda.  Cameron is against paying reparations, and Jamaican PM Portia Simpson Miller has backed what she calls "non-confrontational discussions".

Baby Lion tries to roar.  So does this one.