Good Morning Australia!! - Meryl Streep gets under Trump's thin skin - Rolf's new trial begins - Jokowi fights extremism - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Might as well start with the tabloid, reality show crap news.  Orange clown and US pretender-elect Donald Trump responded to legendary actress Meryl Streep's scathing broadside on him from last night's Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood.. like a 12-year old would respond.  The idiot tweeted about the most-celebrated actress of her generation:  "Meryl Streep, one of the most overrated actresses in Hollywood, doesn't know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes," and, "She is a Hillary flunky who lost big."  Corrections:  Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million ballots, and it is the United States and the world in general that's losing "big" with such a petty twit in the Oval Office.

As reported last night, Streep's criticism of Trump was based on last year's campaign speech in which he mocked disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski; Trump denies it, but he very clearly imitated the physical symptoms of the rare joint disease that Mr. Kovaleski lives with.  But to take this a level deeper, remember that Kovaleski had asked Trump about a false rumor he repeated about non-existent crowds of non-existent Muslims cheering as the World Trade Center came down in 2001; so Trump is lying about mocking a disabled reporter who questioned him about a lie.  This takes control of the most powerful office in the free world in less than two weeks.

Oh, and he can't handle Meryl Streep, but claims he can take on Islamic State.  Uh huh.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton gets a standing ovation by just arriving at a Broadway theater to see a play.

French police arrested 17 people in the armed robbery of Kim Kardashian West in Paris last October.  The suspects - mainly in their fifties and known to police - held the reality TV star at gunpoint and made off with more than AU$14 Million in jewels.  And that concludes that crap tabloid reality TV news for today.

Dr. Michael Chamberlain is dead at age 72.  His nine-week-old daughter Azaria was snatched by a dingo in Uluru in 1980, setting off decades of sensational media coverage, gossip, and legal malpractice that saw him and wife Lindy Chamberlain wrongly convicted of killing Azaria.  Both were exonerated, but their marriage didn't survive it.

Rolf Harris appeared in a London court via videolink, watching his trial on charges on seven counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual touching.  The incidents allegedly took place between 1971 and 2004, and the victims were girls and women who were aged between 12 and 27 at the time.  Rolf has pleaded not guilty; he's already serving a prison sentence of five years and nine months after being convicted of twelve other counts in 2014.  At his age, the judge ruled that he doesn't have to travel to the court from prison.

Sinn Fein is en route to triggering a snap election in Northern Ireland.  Martin McGuinness resigned as Deputy First Minister in protest over a botched energy scheme from the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) that was supposed to promote renewables; instead it rewarded people for burning ever larger amount of fossil fuels, putting the program way over budget.  Mr. McGuinness said First Minister Arlene Foster has a "clear conflict of interest" and it is "the right time to call a halt to the DUP's arrogance".  Foster has refused to step down; but under the rules of Stormont, Foster loses her job if McGuinness resigns, thus triggering elections.

Marshall Islands officials have no idea when full Internet and telecom services will be back up and running, because of a major problem with the undersea fiber optic cable:  "I've been told that locating the repair site is like finding a pin head in a three-mile stretch of cable," said National Telecommunications Authority head Tommy Kijiner Jr.  All phone and internet communications are relying on satellites, which provide only three percent of the Islands' usual bandwidth, with official government business getting priority.

An arctic cold snap is blamed for 20 deaths around Europe.

Sinkhole eats cars in Philadelphia in the eastern US.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo is urging his citizens to resist religious extremists, who were calling for sharia law and a ban on non-Muslims holding public office.  "We have been blessed with plurality and we need to be grateful, yet we also need to maintain our unity," Jokowi told thousands of supporters at an event in Java.  This comes as hardliners are trying to force Jakarta's Christian and ethnic Chinese governor from office over alleged slights to Islam.  At the same time, Indonesia's military sacked a commander who was photographed allowing a hardline Islamist group to undergo military training alongside his own troops.