Good Morning, Australia! - The infamous leader of the Afghani Taliban has been dead for years - Labor plans to ignore Bronwyn Bishop's authority in Parliament - Charges for a white cop in a particularly egregious shooting of an unarmed black motorist - And more in your CareerSpot AM News Briefs:

The head of the Afghanistan Taliban Mullah Omar died in April 2013 in hospital in Pakistan, officials in Kabul are confirming.  The elusive terrorist leader managed to avoid detection until the end, despite a US$10 Million bounty put on his head since the 9/11 attacks due to his alliance with Osama Bin Laden.  The White House says the report is credible.  This throws in doubt the peacetalks with the Taliban and the Afghanistan government, which were supposedly endorsed by Omar in a statement released on the Eid holiday two weeks ago.  If Mullah Omar isn't really speaking for the Taliban, then exactly who is?

The multinational force coming online next month will not have to worry about borders in their pursuit of Boko Haram.  Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says there is sufficient trust between his country and his partners in Chad, Niger, and Cameroon to give the force the leeway it will need in fighting the Islamic extremist militant group, which professes to be a caliphate that rejects western education.  Relations between the four countries have not always been smooth, mainly because of territorial disoutes over regions with oil resources.  Buhari is working to ease those tensions.

Two men accused of helping a US tourist hunt and kill Zimbabwe's most famous lion have appeared in court and were been released on bail.  Prosecutors charged professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst and farm owner Honest Ndlovu with poaching and not having the required hunting permit.  The hunter who actually killed Cecil the Lion, American dentist Walter Palmer, could also face charges although he has already left Zimbabwe.

A Grand Jury in the American city of Cincinnati, Ohio has indicted a white University of Cincinnati police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed  black motorist who he had pulled over for what a completely disgusted DA called a "chicken-crap stop".  Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters added, "It was so unnecessary for this to occur." The body camera worn by Officer Ray Tensing shows him pulling over 43-year old Sam Dubose for missing license plate on a street off of the campus proper.  The cop shot the guy in the head for no apparent reason, and lied in his report claiming that he was dragged by Dubose's car.  "I was shocked.. it really broke my heart.  It's just bad.  It's just bad what he did," Deters said, describing the shooting as an "intentional killing of another human being".

If Bronwyn Bishop is still speaker during the next sitting of Parliament, Labor says it will not respect her in the position.  Bishop has been under intense pressure following revelations of questionable expenses charged to the taxpayers, such as a helicopter ride from Melbourne to Geelong - only an hour's ride by car.  "She might be there in a big important chair, but the sense of her as being somebody respected to do that job fairly and do that job in a way that reflects on the rest of the Parliament positively is gone, completely gone," said Labor's manager of Opposition business Tony Burke.  Crossbench MPs Clive Palmer and Andrew Wilkie are reportedly planning to move a no-confidence motion on the speaker when Parliament resumes.

France is assigning more than a hundred extra police officers to guard the entrance to the Channel Tunnel, after weeks of trouble with immigrants trying to get in to go to the UK.  In the past few days, groups of young men numbering 1,500 and 2,000 attempted to storm the entrance, with nine of them dying in the process.  At least one was crushed by a truck.  Others were electrocuted trying to stow away on the Eurostar train.  The perimeter of the French side of the Chunnel is 14 miles long, protectedby a fence riddled with holes and a migrant encampment on the other side. Eurotunnel says it has blocked 37,000 migrants trying to make their way to Britain since the beginning of the year.