Good Morning Australia!! - Three possible, if ineffectual, terrorist attacks in the USA - Aussie jets took part in a grand mistake in Syria - The Chancellor's party sinks in Berlin - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A violent Saturday night in America:  Although the attacker's motivation hasn't really been revealed, Islamic State is claiming responsibility for a knife attack in a shopping mall in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, a town northwest of Minneapolis in the US northern tier.  No one was killed.  Witnesses say the attacker was dressed in a private security uniform, mentioned "Allah", and asked at least one of the nine victims if their were Muslim before stabbing and wounding them.  Saint Cloud officials are praising the swift response of off-duty, part-time cop Jason Falconer for shooting and killing the attacker. 

The governor of New York state Andrew Cuomo says an explosion in NYC's Chelsea district was an act of terrorism, but there is no obvious connection to international terrorism or jihadism.  The explosion tore through a plastic dumpster outside a church rennovation project in the trendy neighborbood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, injuring 29 people - all were out of hospital by Sunday morning.  A second device resembling a pressure cooker bomb was found some blocks away and around a corner, it didn't explode.  Earlier in the day, pipe bombs went off on the course of a marathon meant to honor military members in New Jersey - no one was hurt.  Authorities say this investigation will be thorough and deliberate.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in New York for this week's United Nations General Assembly, but is safe and was no where near any of the action. 

Australian warplanes were involved in the botched US-coordinated airstrike in eastern Syria that killed dozens of government troops fighting Islamic State.  A Defence Department statement read:  "Australia would never intentionally target a known Syrian military unit or actively support Daesh (IS). Defence offers its condolences to the families of any Syrian personnel killed or wounded in this incident."  The Pentagon also admitted the blunder, which Russia says threatens the week-old cease-fire and future cooperation against jihadists - especially after US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power actually accused Russia of "cheap point-scoring and the grandstanding" in a contentious Security Council meeting.

India is reacting with anger after militants killed 17 soldiers at a base in Kashmir, the deadliest such attack in two decade.  All four attackers are dead.  Indian Home Affairs Minister Rajnath Singh accused Pakistan of being a "terrorist state".  Pakistan disputes India's control of mountainous region.

An Al Shabaab suicide bomber rammed the convoy carrying a Somalian general, killing him and six photographers.  This comes just before before parliamentary elections on 25 September.

Pro-Kremlin candidates are expected to sweep elections in Russia.  But then, it's easy to win elections and get high approval ratings when you control the media with an iron fist and kill your opponents.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) plummeted to its lowest result in Berlin's civic election.  It puts the German capital on track for its first triple-Left coalition of the first-place Social Democrats with the Greens and Die Linke parties.  Unfortunately, The CDU's loss is the racists' gain:  The overtly racist and Islamophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) barely cleared double digits and will enter state parliament for the first time.  Berlin Mayor Michael Muller had earlier warned it "would be seen around the world as a sign of the return of the rightwing and the Nazis in Germany".

Former French President Jacques Chirac is in hospital with a lung infection.  The now-83 year old served in the office from 1995 to 2007, famously rejecting US military intervention in Iraq in 2003. 

A tour boat sank on Thailand's Cho Phraya River, killing at least 13 people.  Local media reports several people are still missing.  This happened near Ayutthaya, a popular tourist draw and UNESCO featuring ancient Buddhist statues and structures.