Good Morning Australia!! - A US Senator is excoriated by sex abuse survivors before a stunning about face for Trump's Supreme Court nominee - The Pope sacks an abusive priest - Facebook says someone tried to hack tens of millions of profiles - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Facebook says it discovered a hack that exposed the information of 50 million of the social network's users.  More than 90 million users were forcibly logged out of their accounts by Facebook and had to log back in for security reasons.  Facebook claimed users didn't need to change their passwords (although I did) or take any other precautions.  They don't know who did it or where they were based, but Facebook engineers noticed a spike in activity and logged in users on 16 September, and traced it back to three security flaws in the system's "access tokens" which keep users logged in.

A powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake caused a three-meter tsunami that slammed into Sulawesi, Indonesia, collapsing homes and causing all sorts of damage in two cities.  A mosque pancaked, a ship was reportedly washed onto shore in or around Palu, and several restaurants at a waterfront mall were swept away - but we're still waiting on word of casualties.  "The cut to telecommunications and darkness are hampering efforts to obtain information," said Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, "All national potential will be deployed, and tomorrow morning we will deploy Hercules and helicopters to provide assistance in tsunami-affected areas." 

Several people were hurt when an Air Niugini plane missed the runway and wound up in a lagoon off the island of Weno, Micronesia.  Out of 39 passengers and eleven crew on Flight PX073, it is reported between four and nine people were taken to hospital; one was in a serious condition.  The rest were taken to a hotel to wait for a rescue flight.

And now..

Donald Trump ordered the FBI to perform a "supplemental" investigation into his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, after a mysterious change in attitude on the Republican-controlled US Senate Judiciary Committee.  Whereas earlier in the week, Trump was argumentative and critical of the three women who accused Kavanaugh of attempted rape and engineering gang-rapes during prep school and college, on Friday Trump calmly and uncharacteristically deferred to the Republican majority on the committee.  Likewise, committee chairman Chuck Grassley, who had spent most of the last 24 repeating his reasons that an FBI investigation was unnecessary, changed his mind during the break for lunch.

The Republican Senator who broke with his party's line and requested the FBI investigation is Jeff Flake, a frequent critic of the increasing nastiness in the Republican party in the age of Trump.  Flake had announced he would vote for Kavanaugh; but then he was confronted by survivors of sexual assault who trapped him in an elevator and refused to allow the door to close while they angrily lambasted him for ignoring their plight and the stories of the women who accuse Kavanaugh.  "I was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me," implored Maria Gallagher, a young survivor, "I didn't tell anyone, and you're telling all women that they don't matter."  It was a truly excruciating scolding of a man who claims to want a return to civility in Washington while usually just doing whatever his party wants.  A few hours later, Flake informed party leaders that he'd go against Kavanaugh in the floor vote unless there was another FBI investigation.

Moving on..

For the second time in a month, Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest who sexually abused young people.  88-year old former priest Fernando Karadima had originally been sentenced to a lifetime of "penance and prayer"; now, he has been kicked out for "the good of the Church".  On 15 September, Francis sacked another abusive priest, Christian Precht, for the same reasons.  Prior to that in June, the Pope accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops in the wake of the scandal.