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Both Russia and Egypt are rejecting an apparent rush to blame a terrorist bomb as the cause of Saturday's MetroJet crash in the Sinai desert, calling on both the US and UK to let the investigators do their jobs.  UK Prime Minister David Cameron said "intelligence and information" available to his government suggested that a bomb was "more likely than not" to have brought down the airliner. But the UK apparently has not yet shared that intel, a stall that Russia calls "shocking".  In the US, a White House spokesman was even more nebulous, obliquely noting that "some information has been learned" and refusing to rule out "terrorist involvement".

Meanwhile, Britain is now trying to repatriate the thousands of its citizens who were stranded in the Sharm El-Sheikh resort after London suspended flights to and from because of the MetroJet crash.  Easyjet, Monarch and Thomson will run flights, with passengers restricted to well-inspected carry-on bags - their checked baggage will be transported separately.  Germany's Lufthansa and its subsidiaries have stopped flights to Sharm El-Sheikh, as have Ireland and Belgium.  France and the Netherlands are advising citizens not to go there.  The MetroJet flight crashed on Saturday killing all 224 people on board, most of whom were Russian tourists returning to Saint Petersburg.

A baby that survived the cargo plane crash in South Sudan is conscious.  The 14-month old girl could be the only person to survive.  The plane's manufacturer, Ukraine-based Antonov, says it wasn't airworthy.  And officials said the flight was never approved to carry passengers.

France is sending its largest war ship to support the US-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria.  The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will make it easier and quicker for French plane to carry out aerial attacks.  The de Gaulle can handle 100 sorties per day.

Medecins Sans Frontieres is upping its accusations against the US, saying that American war planes firing on its staff as they ran for cover away from the bombing of an MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan last month.  At least 30 people died in the debacle.  The US says the attack was a mistake, but MSF says it was a war crime.

Hopes are fading for any survivors that might be buried under a collapsed factory in Lahore, Pakistan.  It's feared that 50 to 100 people could still be underneath.  Officials are warning that the death toll of 21 could go higher.

Japan may not have legal gay marriages, but two districts in Tokyo are issuing certificates recognizing same-sex partnerships.  Shibuya and Setagaya rolled out the program this week.  Japan is a fairly conservative society, with popular and rather flamboyant openly gay in its entertainment, but with a staid and immobile bureaucracy steeped in its rigid ways.

A California man is recovering after emergency surgery to have a tapeworm removed from his brain.  Yes, that's "tapeworm" and "brain".  The US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says people can get larval cysts in the brain - called neurocysticercosis - by swallowing microscopic eggs passed in the faeces of a person who has an intestinal pork tapeworm.  Luis Ortiz went to a hospital in Napa with what he called the worst headache of his life, and neurosurgeon Soren Singel found the squirmy in his brain scan.  Dr. Singel says Mr. Ortiz had about 30 minutes to live, but the surgery was successful and the young man is preparing to return to university in Sacramento (which, to my experience, is the kind of place where people accidentally eat shyte and get brain worms).

WHOOO's that riding on the Tram?

Adidas will offer free design services to more than 2,000 US High Schools that still use Native American imagery - often offensive - as part of its sport mascots.  The announcement came at President Barack Obama's meeting with leaders from the 567 federally-recognized indigenous nations in Washington.  It puts more pressure on the Washington Redskins pro football team to change its incredibly awful and racist name, although owner Dan Snyder has scumbaggishly insisted that the team will never change its name from the racial slur.