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Good Morning Australia!! - Sinead O'Connor is reportedly safe after a scare near Chicago - The European Refugee Crisis is bringing out the worst in nations - UK Prime Minister David Cameron has no time for Trump's BS - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The use of antidepressant drugs has doubled among Australians over the past 16 years.  But this is happening in the face of mounting evidence that the pills are not as effective as once thought.

One of the world's most-common analgesics could be reducing users' capacity to feel empathy.  US Scientists published a study claiming that acetaminophen - the main ingredient in Panadol and Tylenol - makes people more likely to think that other people's pain isn’t a big deal.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will host a group of US conservative political and media figures to his company's headquarters this week.  It follows last week's accusations by former employees that Facebook manipulated its "trending" section to exclude news that would be of interest to conservatives.

Good Morning Australia!! - Duterte is planning to bring back a revolting form of execution - France presses ahead with plans to revive the Middle East Peace Process - The end game of the Brazilian Impeachment process comes into focus - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - FIFA suffers a blow to its reform effort - Five Melbourne men face life in prison for allegedly plotting jihad - Rainbows in Havana - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - A first for FIFA that signals a new era for football - Obama tells schools to stop bullying trans kids - Internet Trolls to the rescue!! - And more in your CareerSpot International News Links:

A warehouse fire in Ontario, California put a tear in the eye of automobile enthusiasts, destroying a dozen rare, Japanese sports cars - including nine Nissan Skylines. And it might have been caused by an illegal marijuana growing operation in the space next door. 

Bank of England governor Mark Carney is giving his starkest warning yet about the possibility of UK voters choosing to leave the European Union, warning that the risks of leaving "could possibly include a technical recession".

Microsoft's Bing search engine is banning advertisements from companies that offer third party tech support for its Windows operating system, and occasionally for Apple OS X, because most of them are scams.

Japan's second-largest automaker Nissan has agreed to buy a 34 percent stake in its troubled smaller competitor, Mitsubishi Motors Corp (MMC).  The AU$3 Billion bet gives Nissan control of Mitsubishi, and solves a bunch of problems for both companies.

Good Morning Australia!! - Malcolm and Bill will debate tonight - Brazil's Dila Rousseff is suspended and you won't believe how her cabinet was replaced - A German court seems to be woefully ignorant of history - How not to bribe an official - And more in your CareerSpot International News Briefs:

A UK temp agency that sent a temporary receptionist home for not wearing High Heeled shoes has changed its policy after a negative backlash.  But the London receptionist is stepping up for women across the UK who are subjected to ridiculous, gender-based dress codes.

Health officials in Havana say that Cuba's universal vaccination program has removed a help scourge threatening the island's children:  There have been no cases of acute hepatitis B in children younger than five years of age since 1999, and none in those younger than 15 since 2006.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been named as a former director in a company created by Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian law firm that specializes in shell corporations that the world's economic elite use to hide their money from taxation.

Good Morning Australia!! - It's D-Day in Brazil (D for Dilma) - Nigeria's President wants his country's missing billions back - A deadly day as Islamic state bombs killed almost a hundred people in Baghdad - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

NASA's Kepler Satellite telescope has spotted and identified 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, including more than a hundred Earth-sized planets orbiting alien stars.

Workers using cloud-based apps such as Google Docs or Dropbox "display reckless technology habits that put their employers at risk", according to a recent study of the new way of doing business.

Within the next couple of weeks - perhaps within ten days - CSIRO scientists and the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) expect to log a disturbing climate change milestone with implications for the entire planet:  The first atmospheric baseline of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon.

Good Morning Australia!! - Australia will challenge Thailand on its increasingly repressive military government - President Barack Obama will be the first sitting US chief executive to visit Hiroshima - Meet two of the incredibly corrupt men lining up to replace Brazil's twice-elected President - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs: