Hello Australia!! - Carrie Fisher is rushed to hospital - The US stands back as the UN sternly rebukes Israel - Police kill the man suspected of carrying out the Berlin Terror Attack - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Actress Carrie Fisher is reportedly in a critical condition after suffering a major cardiac episode on a commercial from London to Los Angeles.  According to actress Anna Akana, who was seated in front of the 60-year old Ms. Fisher, the "Star Wars" star was stricken about 15 minutes before the plane was scheduled to land.  Passengers and flight crew assisted her, and as soon as it touched ground an ambulance transported Fisher to a nearby hospital.  Fisher has been busy in recent week promoting her latest autobiography "The Princess Diarist".  Her fellow Star Wars cast members tweeted their shock and well wishes.

The United States abstained as the UN Security Council voted to adopt a resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian territory.  The measure passed 14-0.  Israel furiously lobbied to scuttle the resolution, and was furious at the outcome vowing not to abide by it.  It's one of the last things the Obama Administration can do to express its frustration with Israel's hardline government.  But US pretender-elect Donald Trump tweeted that things will be different after he moves into the White House on 20 January, vowing closer cooperation with the hardliners.

Police in Milan shot and killed the suspect in the Berlin Christmas Market Attack.  Officers spotted Anis Amri near a train station in the Sesto San Giovanni area of the Italian city, asked for his identification papers.  Instead, he pulled a gun from his rucksack; Amri shot and wounded one officer and was in turn killed by the other.  Authorities believe that Anis Amri killed a polish truck driver and stole his black big-rig, plowing it into a crowded Christmas market in Germany on Monday night.  Eleven pedestrians and the trucker were killed.

The UN says at least 5,000 people people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to cross from Africa to Europe this year, making 2016 the worst on record.  The United Nations High Commission on Refugees says Europe still needs to organise legal ways for refugees to find safety.

Protesters chained themselves to the pews of Santiago's main Roman Catholic cathedral to express outrage over a special Christmas mass held in the prison cells of cops and soldiers convicted of acts of torture and murder during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.  Ten of them asked for "forgiveness" for their crimes against humanity.  Campaigners say it they were true penitents, they'd reveal the locations of the graves of the disappeared.  Although many priests and nuns opposed the Pinochet regime to varying degrees, the Catholic Church hierarchy tacitly and actively supported the fascists as a hedge against Communism, and since its fall has campaigned for the release of Pinochet goons convicted of atrocities.

And now, GREAT news:  An experimental vaccine against Ebola has turned out to be 100 percent effective.  A report in the British medical journal The Lancet details how researchers tested it to great success in the waning days of the West African Ebola Epidemic that killed 11,310 people across six countries from December 2013 through June 2016.  Although national regulatory bodies haven't approved it yet, officials are creating a 300,000-dose stockpile to stop the next Ebola epidemic before it goes out of control.  "While these compelling results come too late for those who lost their lives during West Africa's Ebola epidemic, they show that when the next outbreak hits, we will not be defenseless," said the World health Organization's (WHO) Marie-Paule Kieny.  The vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV is licensed to Merck pharmaceuticals.