Good Morning, Australia! – Cops are shot in a troubled American town – Four years after the Fukushima disaster, Hong Kong finds radiation in imported Japanese Tea – A cement factory collapses on more than a hundred workers – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Two police officers are recovering after being shot outside the police department in Ferguson, Missouri – the Middle American town rocked by months of unrest triggered in August by the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman.  Shots rang out late Wednesday night as protesters were leaving the area around the Ferguson Police headquarters, where the Chief had earlier resigned.  Officers in protective gear were still lined up on the sidewalk to keep people back.  Multiple witnesses say the shots came not from the protesters, but from a hill across the street.

At least eight people are dead in a roof collapse at a cement factory in Bangladesh, where building standards and inspections are lax and workplace fatalities are many.  More than a hundred workers were trapped and rescue efforts are in fell gear.  It immediately dredged up memories of the Rana Plaza building collapse from two years ago that killed more than 1,100 garment workers outside Dhaka.

25 people are still missing after the shopping center fire in Kazan, east of Moscow.  Four people are confirmed dead, and officials hold out little hope for the anyone trapped under the rubble.  The fire started in a first-floor cafe adjoining the Admiral centre on Wednesday and more than 600 people were cleared from the building.

Food inspectors in Hong Kong found unacceptably high levels of radiation in Green Tea powder imported from Japan, from a company in Chiba prefecture, north of Tokyo.  The tea showed 9.3 times the legal maximum level of radioactive cesium 137 allowed in food.  Hong Kong stepped up radiation tests on food imported from Japan since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster four years ago.

A rapidly surfacing whale crashed into a tourist boat off the west coast of Mexico, killing a Canadian tourist.  This happened less than two kilometers off Cabo San Lucas.  35-year old Jennifer Carren of Calgary was thrown from the boat when the whale breached from the water and landed on the vessel.

Iraqi forces backed by Shiite militias are pushing deeper into Tikrit.  They’re being slowed down by Islamic State sniper and bombs, but have retaken 75 percent of the town.  It’s Iraq’s biggest counter offensive against the terrorist group since it captured large amounts of Iraqi and Syrian territory last year.

A Berlin court says three Lebanese men must each pay a fine of A$1,850 for kidnapping a gay teenage boy with the intention of forcing him into marriage.  The kid is 18 now, which is the age of majority in Germany.  But shortly after he came out at 15-years old, his father and two uncles forced him into a car and attempted to whisk him to the Middle East for a forced marriage.  They were stopped at the Romania-Bulgaria border, and the boy was returned to Germany.

Tanzania has now arrested more than 200 witchdoctors in a push to halt the trade in body parts from Albinos.  This was sparked by the murder and dismemberment of a toddler and disappearance of another Albino child.  The witchdoctors use Albino body as charms to confer wealth and good luck.  But nearly 80 Albino Tanzanians have been killed since 2000 – which pretty much establishes that being Albino is not good luck in Tanzania.