Good Morning Australia! - Cops work out how a West Sydney teen got the gun he used to kill a police employee - Russia unleashes a cruise missile attack on anti-government targets in Syria - Over-reliance on digital gadgetry not only erodes the memory, but it erodes the memory, too - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

A group of Islamic extremists in Western Sydney believed they were under close surveillance, so they recruiting a 15-year old boy to carry out a murder at the Parramatta police HQ.  Fairfax media reports that police have CCTV footage showing a group of men in a mosque meeting with Farhad Jabar in the hours before the teen shot and killed police accountant Curtis Cheng, and was in turn gunned down by officers.  Police believe the kid obtained the murder weapon in this meeting.  Police arrested five men related to the shooting in sweeps yesterday, and they're not ruling out more arrests.

Russian ships in the Caspian Sea launched cruise missiles at targets 1,500 kilometers away in Syria in what was is obviously a show of force, and probably a demonstration of Russian military hardware to potential client nations.  Russia says it is targeting "all terrorists"; The US says at least some of its air strikes have hit Western-backed rebels - and civilians.  "They continue to hit targets that are not IS.  We believe this is a fundamental mistake," said US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, noting that the US-led coalition will not coordinate with the Russians.

FIFA could finally be moving to end the reign of Sepp Blatter.  The world football body's ethics committee in Zurich is recommending Blatter be suspended for 90-days over a A$2.7 Million payment made to European football figure Michael Platini.  The final decision is expected to be made on Thursday by the ethics panel's top judge Hans Joachim-Eckert.  Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation of Blatter over the payment.

Aung San Suu Kyi says if her National League for Democracy party wins next month's elections in Myanmar, she will lead the country.  Myanmar has no prime minister, and its legislature elects the President.  It's unclear how Suu Kyi will pull this off, because the post-junta constitution has a provision barring those with children who gave up their Myanmar citizenship from the presidency - something critics say was written in specifically to stop the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. 

Brazil's top election panel is reopening an investigation into alleged misuse of funds by President Dilma Rousseff's election campaign.  The probe was shelved in February for lack of evidence, but reinstated on appeal from the conservative opposition party.  Rousseff is already facing political pressure because of a growing corruption scandal centered around the state-run oil company Petrobras, in which she was already cleared of wrongdoing.

Over-reliance on computers and the Internet is weakening peoples memories, according to a new study from (wait,let me check) the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.  Researchers studied the memory habits of 6,000 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.  They found that more than a third would turn first to computers to recall information, using it as an "extension" of their brains.  Many could still remember their telephone number from childhood, but couldn't recall their own employer's or children's phone numbers stored in their smart phone's digital memory.

Volkswagen says 91,000 of its cars are affected by the cheating, lying software that makes the EA189 engine lie on emissions tests.  It includes Golf and Polo models, Skoda Octavias, and 14,000 Audis.  Yesterday, Wolfsburg indicated that recalls and corrections will begin in 2016.

US regulators are threatening a Chicago drone aircraft firm with a US$1.9 Million fine for illegal flights in restricted areas.  That's more than a hundred times larger than the toughest fine handed down so far - and given the current exchange rate, is equivalent to Eleventy Trillion Gazillion in Australian dollars.  The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told SkyPan to stop the unapproved flights through heavily restricted Class B airspace near airports, which puts planes and passengers at risk, but the firm allegedly continued the aerial photography flights anyway. 

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