Hello Australia! - A climate deal is reportedly near - Will Australia heed America's call for more troops to the Middle East? - A legendary indigenous activist has died - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Negotiators from 197 countries are working through the night in Paris to secure a new global climate deal.  French representative Laurent Fabius said the "conditions were never better" for a strong and ambitious agreement, which he expects to be presented to the world on Saturday morning, local time.  The negotiator from one of the world's biggest polluters was also optimistic:  "We are quite confident, I think with joint efforts by tomorrow we shall have a Paris agreement," said China's senior envoy Liu Zhenmin.  Countries appear to be coalescing around stopping rising global temperatures at 2 degrees C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, although many agreed to make their best efforts to keep the warming rise to 1.5C.  The world awaits..

The US is asking Australia to kick up its military contribution to the Middle East, but it doesn't look like Oz will do so.  US Defense Secretary Ash Carter made this request of all of the countries taking part in the coalition against Islamic State.  "The Australian Government is currently making a significant contribution and would welcome other like-minded countries making greater contributions where possible," Defense Minister Marisa Payne told the ABC.  RAAF jets began hitting targets in Iraq in October 2014, and expanded operations to Syria three months ago.  Aussie troops are also training Iraqi troops to fight IS. 

The three top US airlines are banning so-called "Hoverboards" from carry-on and checked luggage, joining six smaller carriers.  Named after the flying contraptions from the "Back to the Future" movies, the concern is over reports that the lithium batteries in the self-balancing scooters tend to explode or catch fire.  It's a big concern, as Hoverboards are turning out to be big sellers before the holiday gift-giving season, and people are going to want to take boxes of them over the rivers and through the woods.

Chinese police have detained one of the country's wealthiest men, who is reportedly cooperating with an investigation.  His company Fosun will resume trading on the Hong Kong exchange on Monday, after suspending trading on Thursday and Friday amid reports that 48-year old Guo Guangchang  had gone missing.  The detention of a man worth just south of $10 Billion is a sign that Beijing is getting serious on cracking down on the financial sector.

Canadian authorities have charged a man with killing a 15-year old indigenous girl.  The 2014 murder of Tina Fontaine in Manitoba provoked a national outcry in Canada, and contributed to the impression that the former government of then-prime minister Stephen Harper was ignoring a rash of deadly violence against indigenous women.  Between 1980 and 2012, nearly 1,200 Aboriginal women and girls were murdered or went missing - many of their bodies being found in the Red River, where Tina Fontaine's body was discovered.  Earlier this week, new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said announced his government would investigate the murders and disappearances as part of a renewed relationship with Canada's 600 indigenous groups.

North American indigenous activist John Trudell is dead of cancer at age 69.  A native Sioux and protest leader who was spokesman for the 18 month occupation of Alcatraz Island off San Francisco in the tumultuous 1960s and '70s, Trudell later became a leader of the American Indian Movement until the tragic fire that killed his wife and children.  From there, he worked through his grief in a prolific career in poetry and music, touring with Midnight Oil during 1988 under the stage name Graffiti Man - and acting in such films as "Thunderheart", "On Deadly Ground", and "Smoke Signals".  He was also the subject of a 2005 documentary.