Good Morning Australia!! - Terrorists attack a resort popular with international travelers - A car bomb kills dozens in Ankara - EoDM leader Jesse Hughes is backing off some weird opinions - A plebiscite on marriage equality could be costly to the Aussie economy - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

At least 16 people are dead in an attack on at least beachfront three hotels at the tourist resort in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, a vacation spot popular with Africans and Europeans.  Several of the dead are westerners.  Witnesses say "heavily armed men wearing balaclavas" had opened fire near the L'Etoile du Sud Hotel near the beach while yelling "Allahu Akbar!" and that bodies were strewn about.  A government source says the attackers have been "neutralized".  Ivory Coast is divided between a Muslim north along the Sahara Desert and Christian south on the Gulf of Guinea, and elements of the two sides have been fighting since 2002 - but this is the first such violence to occur in the sleepy resort. 

A car bomb in the Turkish capital Ankara killed at least 27 people in the main square.  City officials say scores more have been wounded.  The blast happened in the early evening near several government buildings, as well as bus stops and parked vehicles in the busy Kizilay district.  NO group has claimed responsibility.  Another attack last month killed 28 people and Turkish officials quickly blamed Kurdish separatists; and when one group claimed responsibility, the government denied it and blamed a different Kurdish group. 

Eagles of Death metal singer Jesse Hughes is apologizing for weaving a bizarre conspiracy theory over the terrorist attack at the Bataclan Theater in Paris last November.  Hughes last week alleged that some of the security guards at the venue might have been in on the attack that killed 90 fans when Islamist gunmen burst into the venue and opened fire.  The owners of the Bataclan said Hughes made "grave and defamatory accusations".  Hughes now admits his words were "absurd" as well as "unfounded and baseless". 

French investigators say confidentiality rules on the health and mental well-being of airlines pilots must be relaxed.  Their final report (.pdf link) of last year's Germanwings airline crash in the French Alps says it might have been avoided if more people knew about suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.  He is believed to have deliberately crashed Flight 9525 into the side of a mountain last 27 March, killing all 150 passengers and crew on board. 

Iran is risking fresh economic sanctions from over this month's launch of ballistic missiles, according to French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.  International sanctions came off Tehran in January after it gave up large portions of its nuclear program, but the deal also barred Iran from undertaking any work on ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warhead.  The UN Security Council will discuss Iran's missile tests later on Monday.

A stand-alone plebiscite on same-sex marriage will cost the Australian economy some AU$525 Million, according to a study by the accounting firm PwC.  "Overseas examples show that spending on the 'for' and 'against' campaigns alone can reach over $6 per voter, as happened in California," said PwC economics and policy partner Jeremy Thorpe to the ABC.  "That's a huge waste of money that could be better allocated in our low-growth economy," he opined.  If the matter were included in the upcoming federal election, the price tag drops to $113 Million; That plunges to $17 Million dollars if Parliament were to just do it themselves.