Hello Australia!! - A mysterious double killing in downtown Tel Aviv, was it terrorism or something else? - Note to Turkey's Erdogan:  Referencing Hitler can never be taken out of context - Delhi takes a million cars off of the road - Unforgettable: R&B songstress Natalie Cole has died - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Police in Israel are hunting the gunman who killed two people and injured seven others at a bar and cafe in Tel Aviv.  The gunman was seen on security cameras before the shooting, milling about at a market next door before suddenly going on the attack.  Another video purportedly from inside the bar showed part of the shooting.  But the motive wasn't completely clear:  Police Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said, "It's not clear what the background of the incident is, if it's a terrorist attack or if it's criminal-related."

French cops guarding a mosque in the southeastern city of Valence opened fire on a red Peugeot 307 as the driver allegedly tried to ram them.  Two people and a soldier were hurt.  France has been on high alert since the 13 November attacks.

Munich is easing back a bit after closing and evacuating two major train stations because of terror threats on New Year's Eve.  Munich's main station and Pasing station reopened in the morning on New Year's Day.  Officials say they acted on a "specific" warning and are still hunting five to seven suspects, believed to be Iraqis and Syrians.  Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said even though things are back to normal (somewhat), Europe was facing "a general, permanent terror threat".

A car bomb hit a French Restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan that was reportedly popular with foreigners.  Two people are dead.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his latest power grab with an uncomfortable endorsement of a government with a strong executive:  "There are already examples in the world.  You can see it when you look at Hitler's Germany," Erdogan told reporters upon returning from a visit to Saudi Arabia.   His government quickly rushed out a statement the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia as crimes against humanity (strange, they forgot to mention the Armenians.  I wonder why?).  Now that Erdogan has been term-limited out of the Prime Ministry, his AKP party has been pushing to rewrite the constitution to give Erdogan unitary powers as president.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is running for a third term in office, after a referendum approved constitutional changes to allow him to run for three further terms.  That could conceivably keep him in office until 2034.  Kagame has pretty much run Rwanda's politics since his rebel army stopped the 1994 genocide.  Presidents are seeking third terms in the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the decision of Burundi's president to seek a third term set off violence that has killed around 100 people in that country.

Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson says he will not seek reelection after 20 years in office.  he says he'll continue to serve the country, working on issues such as climate change and protecting marine resources.  Iceland is the country that actually jailed the bankers after the 2008 financial crash, and eventually withdrew its application to join the European Union after getting a good look at the damage austerity was doing.

The Address Hotel in downtown Dubai continued to smoulder, 24 hours after the massive fire on New Year's Eve.  Amazingly, only 14 people were hurt.  The cause is under investigation.

Delhi, India is the world's latest city to institute car rationing based on even and odd license plates, in order to combat terrifying levels of smog.  It takes one million cars per day off the road during the two-week trial period.  A court compelled authorities to take action after pollution levels reached more than ten times the World Health Organization's safe limits.

One more NYE fireworks show, at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

M*A*S*H actor Wayne Rogers is dead at age 82 of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles.  He played Trapper John McIntyre in the first three seasons of the long-running show, trading wise cracks with Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce.  He left the show as it segued into a platform for Alda's anti-war views and ran for another eight years.  Although Rogers continued to perform on TV for a couple of decades, his second act would revolve around his skill at business and investing, becoming a favorite expert guest of business TV shows.

Grammy-award singer Natalie Cole died Thursday night in a Los Angeles hospital, after years of struggling with health issues.  Her 1975 debut album yielded the hit "This will be", the first of a long line of chart toppers that peaked with 1991's "Unforgettable", a duet with prerecorded vocals from her father Nat King Cole.  Along the way, her life experienced a lot of ups and downs not least of which was her struggle with drug addiction and hepatitis C, which she detailed in her 2000 autobiography Angel on my Shoulder.   "I am a walking testimony to you can have scars," Natalie Cole said in 2009, "You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life."