Hello, Australia! – Images of Queen Elizabeth doing a nazi salute causes a ruckus – Amazing and frightening pictures of a fire rampaging across a California highway – Terrorists close out the holy month of Ramadan with mass murder – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Buckingham Palace is blasting the vile Murdoch tabloid The Sun for publishing footage showing a very young Elizabeth and her sister Margaret giving nazi salutes.  This was apparently under the direction of their uncle Edward VIII, whose fascist sympathies have long been recognized by historians.  The film was shot in 1933, when Edward was heir to the throne he would hold for less than a year.  A palace spokesman said, “It is disappointing that film, shot eight decades ago and apparently from her majesty’s personal family archive, has been obtained and exploited in this manner.”  Anti-monarchy groups say it’s not a reflection on the Queen, as she was a small child – but it does show what they say is a shady past that Buckingham Palace sugarcoats.

A wildfire in California quickly raged out of control and swept across a busy highway, burning at least 20 cars and trucks.  Somehow, no injuries were reported – which was a miracle, considering the scene looked like a Mad Max movie.  This happened on Cajon Pass on I-15, which connects Los Angeles and the California Southland with Las Vegas; so not only was the highway filled with afternoon commuters, but also travelers heading to Vegas for the weekend.

An Islamic State car bomb killed more than 100 people in a Shiite market town north of Baghdad.  The attack on Khan Bani Saad came at the holiday marking the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan, meaning that families with children filled the area before the explosion.  Authorities declared three days of mourning and cancelled Eid al-Fitr festivities.

A suspected Boko Haram bomb killed nine people celebrating Eid in the northeast Nigerian town of Damaturu.  It’s believed one of the female suicide bombers was only ten-years old.

About 300 people were hurt when two trains collided in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Some were in a serious condition, but no fatalities are reported.  Investigators say a moving train apparently plowed into a stationary one.  The probe will likely center on why they were on the same track.

Striking miners have cut off access to the Bolivian City of Potosi – population 130,000 – demanding the government increase infrastructure investment.  Among those trapped in town for the eleven-day action are 200 Argentines who came to the area for the Pope’s recent visit, 20 French youth workers, three Brits, and a Russian.  Local media report that the city has almost run out of petrol, food, and money – and authorities say they are powerless to break the picket lines.

Mexican authorities arrested and expect to charge seven people in the escape of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who walked out of the country’s most-secure Atiplano Prison via a tunnel last week.  About three-dozen people have been hauled in for questioning.

There’s growing pressure on the government of Denmark to ban animal acts from circuses, after a tourist recorded video of an elephant losing his temper with his handler in the seaside town Karrebaeksminde.  No one was hurt, although some a car got messed up as the tusker tossed it around like a toy.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scrapped the main stadium design for Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics.  Cost overruns were to blame: had the stadium gone ahead, it would have cost US$2 Billion, making it the single most expensive sports venue in the world.  But the original plan by British architect Zaha Hadid had not been popular, with critics saying it resembled a bicycle helmet or turtle or cockroach.  Abe says a more modest stadium will be completed on time.  Japan already tore down the beautiful mid-20th Century National Stadium to make way for the new stuff.