Good Morning Australia!! - The IMF warns the world economy is slowing - A 60 Minutes crew is charged in a bungled child custody case - Worry over Boko Haram's sickening new terror tactic - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The International Monetary Fund is warning that the global economy is in danger of stalling.  The IMF downgraded the 2016 growth forecast for 2016 by 0.2 percentage points to 3.2 percent.  Weak commodity prices and China's slowdown are blamed.  For the average bloke, this could manifest itself as smothered wage growth and fewer jobs.  "Does that culminate in some crisis and recession?" asked IMF Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld; "It's not clear at all that would be the case, but we definitely face the risk of going into doldrums that could be politically perilous," he added.  Recessions in Russia and Brazil are proving to be deeper and longer than the IMF anticipate, and oil exporters are facing sharp slowdowns.

Boy, Channel Nine sure stepped in it and tracked it all over the rug!  Prosecutors in Lebanon filed charges against reporter Tara Brown, three of her 60 Minutes colleagues, and five others in a botched "child recovery" operation.  Last Thursday, three armed men snatched the kids, aged four- and six-years old, bashing their grandmum in the process.  Aussie mum Sally Faulkner - who is one of those charged - claims her Lebanese surf instructor ex-husband moved their two children to Lebanon without permission.  The depth of Channel Nine's involvement in the child custody case is not clear.  "They planned to show it in Australia as if it was an operation to save the children, as if they were doing a good thing," a police source told the UK Guardian newspaper.  The father insists he did not kidnap the children.

Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff accuses her Vice President Michel Temer of being the "head of the conspiracy" to impeach her, after audio of him rehearsing his post-impeachment speech was leaked.  Opponents are trying to remove Dilma from office over allegedly manipulating state accounts - but, she is not criminally charged with any wrongdoing.  The same cannot be said for Temer and his ally House Speaker Eduard Cunha.  Cunha is charged with taking US$5 Million in bribes, as well as money laundering; Temer faces investigation over claims he was involved in an illegal ethanol purchasing scheme.

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov issued pardons for politicians from both the ruling parties and the opposition to end a political crisis sparked by a wiretapping scandal that has rattled the country for more than a year.  The opposition had accused the ruling party of wiretapping 20,000 people, including police, judges, journalists and diplomats.  An incredulous European Union enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn wrote on Twitter: "Today's actions of President Ivanov are not in line with my understanding of rule of law."  Social-Democrat opposition leader Zoran Zaev - who didn't actually need a pardon - called BS on Ivanov:  "We are not all criminals," he said.

Papua New Guinea authorities arrested and charged attorney-general and Justice Minister Ano Pala with abuse of office and misappropriating US$1 Million in public funds.  Cops nabbed Mr. Pala when arrived back at the airport in Port Moresby on a flight from Brisbane late last night.

Germany arrested a railway controller in February's crash of two trains in Bavaria that killed eleven people.  The controller was allegedly playing a video game when he should have been keeping the trains on separate tracks - instead, they crashed head-on.  He faces up to five years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. 

One in five suicide bombings attributed to the terrorist group Boko Haram is carried out by a child, according to UNICEF.  Girls, who are often drugged, blackmailed, bullied, or otherwise coerced account for 75 of the bombers.  Boko Haram carried out four suicide bombings in 2014; but as the group was put on the back foot by a regional military response, it increased to 44 such attacks in 2015 plus the first month of this year.