Good Morning Australia! - The stock market hasn't gotten over its queasiness - Pope Francis makes a small change that could make an huge difference in his church - The plaza outside Budapest's main rail station is now a refugee camp - Thailand arrests another shrine bombing suspect - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:
The Dow Jones closed almost 470 points down overnight, a loss of a little more than 2.8 percent. Some of the market's concerns are domestic, some are related to China's economy. Financial and energy stocks took the greatest hits.
Pope Francis is making it easier for women who have had an abortion to seek forgiveness from the Catholic Church: Priests will be allowed to absolve women who ask for it, whereas usually such a thing can only be granted by a bishop. The policy will last for one year, starting in December at the start of the church's next Jubilee year. There's no change in policy, the church still opposes women's reproductive rights - the major change is that the Pope doesn't want his church to be a jerk about it. Pope Francis says many women who sought an abortion did so because they "believe that they have no other option".
Asylum seekers protested outside Budapest's main train station, after Hungarian police refused to allow them to board trains to Germany. Many had already paid for tickets, some of them spending their last bits of money. The refugees, hundreds of them, are now camping out in front of the station. They don't even want to stay in Hungary and wish to travel through to Germany and northern European countries where the conditions for asylum seekers are more favorable. Hungary claims officers are just enforcing the law.
A third police officer has died after the grenade blast during protests outside Ukraine's parliament. Nationalists and fascists opposed to legislation that grants more autonomy to rebel-held areas in the east staged violent protests, at one point tossing explosives at police guarding the building. Police say they will question protest leaders.
Thai police arrested another suspect in the Erawan Shrine bombing, described as a foreign man who was picked up trying to cross the border into Cambodia. Military junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha said he is "a main suspect", but didn't say if he indeed was the man seen on camera leaving a backpack believed to have contained the bomb at the shrine. Some of the names and passports revealed so far suggest the suspects are connected to China restive northwest, where some Muslims from the Uighur ethnic group have sought to establish a breakaway state called "East Turkestan".
Animal rights activist Ric O'Barry has been freed by Japanese police, after he was arrested for allegedly not carrying his passport as is required of foreigners in Japan. He is the former dolphin trainer featured in the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove", which depicts the gruesome and bloody Taiji dolphin hunt, in which scores of the oceanic mammals are hacked to death in shallow waters. O'Barry's group Dolphin Project opposes the hunt, which is just getting underway for the season.
Tokyo is dropping its logo for the 2020 Olympics and starting from scratch. This comes after complaints that designer Kenjiro Sano's capital letter "T" with a red rising sun too closely resembled the logo of a theater in Belgium. Sano has admitted to copying other designs in his previous work. In July, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pulled the plug on the original design of the main Olympic Venue due to cost concerns.
A county clerk and her staff in Kentucky have a date in US Federal Court on Thursday to explain why they're not issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples. Kim Davis (herself married four times) claims to be acting "under god's authority" in denying the rights of same sex couples. The US Supreme Court legalized same sex marriage in July, and ruled against Davis yesterday.