Good Morning Australia - The Oceans are creeping up on beachfront property much faster than expected - Austrian cops check an abandoned truck and find one of the biggest tragedies of Europe's refugee crisis - A legendary Australian passes - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

NASA is confirming that not only are global sea levels on the rise, they're on the high side of what has been predicted.  The seas have risen an average of eight centimeters since 1992, and it's only going to get worse in the future because of man-made global warming.  The Antarctic ice sheet has recently lost an average of 118 billion tons of ice a year into the sea.  "Given what we know now about how the ocean expands as it warms, and how ice sheets and glaciers are adding more water to the seas, it's pretty certain we are locked into at least three feet of sea level rise, and probably more," said University of Colorado Arctic specialist Steven Nerem. 

Authorities in Austria say some 20 to 50 refugees perished in the back of a truck found parked on the side of a highway near the Hungarian border.  The driver is believed to be Hungarian, and the vehicle had Hungarian number plates.  He apparently abandoned the vehicle on Wednesday, and cops say the bodies had already started to decompose when they opened it up on Friday.  Twice this month, patrols on the Mediterranean Sea found scores of dead people in the cargo holds of human trafficking ships - now, it appears that actually making it to Europe is no guarantee of survival.

Not far from the gruesome scene, European leaders held a summit in Vienna to discuss the refugee crisis facing the region.  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all those at the summit were "deeply shocked" and the tragedy shows EU nations need to cooperate to solve the refugee crisis.  But Austria countered that the larger nations weren't helping enough with the emerging migration route leading from the south, through the Western Balkans, to Germany.  And Serbia says that money alone isn't going to cut it.  The nations are also torn over how to secure the southern frontier, across which migrants from the war-torn Middle east and sub-Saharan Africa travel in search of the safety and stability that has disappeared from their homelands.

A top US security official says a drone strike killed a British-born jihadist and propagandist for Islamic State.  21-year old Junaid Hussain also went by the name Abu Hussain al-Britani - he was number three on the Pentagon "kill list", accused of being involved in plots in the US and in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.  Authorities believe he used social media to encourage an attack at a "Draw Muhammad" contest in Texas earlier this year.  US Homeland Security Committee chair Michael McCaul says the strike sends an "unmistakable message".  Prior to fleeing to the Middle East, Hussain served a half-year in prison for hacking into former Prime Minister Tony Blair's address book.

An IS suicide car bombing killed five people near Ramadi, including two Iraqi military generals.  The military and police - backed by Sunni tribes, Shiite militias, and US air strikes - are attempting to take back the key city from Islamic State, which occupied Ramadi in May.

Greece has its first female prime minister.  Supreme Court chief justice Vassiliki Thanou has been appointed head of a caretaker government until next month's elections.  Alexis Tsipras stepped down as prime minister only seven months into his four-year term after several members of his ruling Syriza party bolted citing his perceived sell-out to European creditors forcing more public-sector austerity on the nation.

Paul Royle is dead at age 101.  The former RAF pilot died in hospital in Perth.  Mr. Royle and 75 other men broke out of a German prisoner of war camp in Poland in 1944, a daring escape that was later the subject of the 1963 film "The Great Escape", which starred Steve McQueen.  Just like in the fictionalized version, only three of the POWs made it all the way out of nazi-controlled territory - the rest were killed or recaptured, as was Mr. Royle.  He survived nearly five years in Stalag Luft III, returned to Australia, and worked in the mining industry.