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The European Union is proposing a new aid program worth an initial 700 Million Euros - more than AU$1 Billion - for Greece to handle the migrant and refugee crisis on the continent's southern frontier.

One-time billionaire Nathan Tinkler is not contesting a legal order declaring him to be bankrupt, after he failed to make a AU$2.8 Million payment on his Dassault Falcon 900C private jet. 

Good Morning Australia!! - Has more of MH370 been found? - China stops Philippine fishing boats in their own waters near area where Beijing built bases in the South China Sea - Dashcam video shows how not to be a grandfather - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

More than four billion people - approximately two-thirds of the world's population - face severe water scarcity for at least one month out of the year.  And that's a lot more than previous estimates of between 1.7 billion and 3.1 billion.

Preliminary global temperature data is in, and it appears that February 2016 shattered old records.  The data might prove to be an inconvenient truth for global warming deniers, because some of it is coming from one of their own favorite skeptics.

Police in Brazil arrested a Facebook vice president in a dispute over government demands to access systems that users believe are at least somewhat secure.  Diego Dzodan refused to comply with court orders to hand over data for use in a criminal investigation into drugs trafficking.

A British research team won a pretty hefty award for their work on the human brain.  The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize - also known as The Brain Prize - is a relatively new honor for outstanding contribution to European neuroscience.

Good Morning Australia!! - Europe's closing borders is creating a humanitarian crisis of its own making - You won't believe how much money Osama bin Laden had before the US got him - Mick and Keith and Raul and Fidel? - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A new study on 42 patients who suffered paralysis in French Polynesia is confirming what doctors in South America are rapidly finding out - that the Zika virus seems to be able to trigger Guillain-Barre syndrome. 

The US is warning its citizens in Iraq to make plans to get out of the country - quickly if need be - in the case of a catastrophic dam collapse that could flood the lands downstream around the Tigris River and kill more than a million people.

Good Morning Australia!! - A self-proclaimed terrorist wields the head of a murdered child - Security attacks the media at a fascist rally for Donald Trump - Argentina's conservative president surrenders to the demands of US Hedge Funds - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Five years on, criminal charges are filed in the Fukushima nuclear disaster - Oscar night finally pays off for Leo, while Mad Max cleans up of Oz - Cardinal Pell admits "enormous mistakes" - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Teen pregnancy rates are dropping around the world, but one country is still having a problem - The Phillipines leads a regional list of Asian countries that continued to have the greatest number of teenage pregnancies.

Indonesia has a drug problem.  With an estimated 4.5 million addicts and an estimated 33 fatal overdoses per day, according to National Narcotics Agency, officials are looking at outlandish and draconian penalties to combat a national emergency.  These include prisons surrounded by tigers, crocodiles, and piranhas, and forcing drug dealers to use their own products until they die. 

China pulled down the social media accounts of a popular property developer after he blogged that state media were funded by taxpayers and should serve them, not the Communist Party.  He was reacting to the orders of President Xi Jinping, who earlier this month ordered state media to follow party lines in their reporting - the most explicit instruction to do so made since the rule of Mao Zedong.

Good Morning Australia!! - As crews race to free trapped miners, another blast rocks a Russian mine - A Mumbai man ruthlessly slaughters 14 people at a family gathering - Trump is punked, but too arrogant to get it - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Cardinal Pell will be quizzed over clergy sexual abuse - Ireland's government is tossed out in contentious elections - Elephant vs Truck, who wins? - Human Rights abusers who thought they got away with it are finally facing justice - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Hello Australia!! - Guns fall silent in Syria, for now - FIFA gets a replacement for Sepp Blatter - Trump gets a surprise endorsement - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

The University of Texas suffered a blow to its credibility with the loss of Fritz Steiner, the long time Dean of Architecture who built the school's architecture program into one of the nation's best.  Steiner said he was getting out of the state of Texas because of the new state law which will allow students and others to carry concealed handguns on university campuses.

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