Good Morning Australia! - Turkey is disrupted by political violence - Scores of children are freed from squalid, prison -like conditions in an Islamic School - Germany drops an investigation that equated Journalism with Treason - A rare white humpback sighting - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

If you were boating off of the Gold Coast yesterday, you might have seen a Great White Whale.  If you weren't, we have the video right here.

Four police officers in Ferguson, Missouri have been put on adminsitrative leave following an exchange of gunfire with a man at a protest marking one year since the police killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown.  Authorities say the man, identified by local media as 18-year old Tyrone Harris, Jr., had a stolen handgun and allegedly opened fire first.  Harris is in hospital in a critical condition.  His father said Harris had been a "close" friend of Brown.

 

There's been no claim of responsibility for two car bombings in predominantly Shiite areas of Iraq's Diyala Province that killed more than 50 people.  A suicide car bomb tore through a crowded marketplace in near the provincial capital, Baquba, killing at least 35 people and wounding 72.  The other attack was a suicide car bombing that hit a residential area, killing at least seven people and injuring 10.

 

A wave of attacks across Turkey saw shots fired at the US Consulate in Istanbul, and several members of the security forces killed.  In all there were four attacks by two different groups.  Two women from a banned radical Left-wing party attacked the consulate; one was shot and wounded by police, the other got away.  The US consulate said in a tweet that it was closed until further notice.  Hours earlier in another section of Istanbul, a bomb killed one police officer at a police station.  Separately in southeast Turkey, the Kurdish separatist PKK killed five police and troops with a roadside bomb.

Germany has dropped the treason investigation against a political and privacy website accused of leaking state secrets.  The controversial case sparked months of protests in defense of the Netzpolitik website, and came to a head with the country's Justice Minister sacking the chief prosecutor who initiated the investigation.  Netzpolitik reported that Germany's domestic intelligence agency wanted funding for increased online surveillance, and investigated the spy agency's plans to set up a special unit to monitor social networking websites.

China gave a suspended death sentence to a once-powerful general convicted of corruption.  Officials say Gu Junshan was a profilic taker of bribes for military contracts and promotions, and is one of the highest-ranking officers to be tried since the start of President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption in the military.

Military police in Cameroon freed some 70 captive children showing signs of abuse, disease, and malnutrition from a self-styled "Islamic School".  They arrested the headmaster, who also married two young girls being held in the hellhole.  The man claimed that the childrens' parents sent them to his "correctional center" voluntarily.

At least six people are dead in the north of Chile because of mudslides and flooding caused by storms and heavy rain.

The main presidential candidate for Argentina's ruling center-Left "Front for Victory" coalition won a comfortable majority in primary elections over the weekend.  Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli had a 14-point lead over his conservative rival, Buenos Aires city Mayor Mauricio Macri.  A poll last month indicated that Scioli had a similarly comfortable lead ahead of the first round of Presidential elections on 25 October.