Hello Australia!! - Corporate America tells Sepp Blatter to step down - The Vatican pushes back hard on the gay-hating Kentucky clerk - Moose meets Drone - And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Four major sponsors are telling FIFA's embattled leader Sepp Blatter to step down.  Coca Cola, McDonald's, Budweiser, and VISA came out one after the other in what suggested was a coordinated effort to put pressure on the world football body's executive; Coca-Cola said,"Every day that passes, FIFA's image and reputation continues to tarnish."  But the 79-year old Blatter dug in, and vowed to stay on until until February 2016.  Last week, Swiss prosecutors opened criminal proceedings against Blatter, accused of signing a contract that was "unfavorable to FIFA" and making a "disloyal payment" to the European group.

The Vatican firmly and methodically distanced Pope Francis from Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who claimed to have met the Pope in Washington, DC last month and that the pontiff endorsed her efforts to deny marriage licenses to same sex couples.  The Vatican press office put out a release making it clear that Davis was in a group of a dozen people; the two at no point discussed his specific situation;  and the Pope's "meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position".  Davis went to jail for five days for refusing to give marriage licenses to gay couples in her lousy, flea-bitten rat's nest of a crap hole in rural Kentucky.

The Vatican release went further to point out that Pope Francis only granted one "real audience" in Washington, to a small group that included a gay couple.  Yayo Grassi was a student of the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina, and he was given a warm welcome by Francis - as was Yayo's partner of 19 years.  They even shot video.  But Mr. Grassi was quick to point out that this was a meeting of old friends from Argentina who've kept in touch over the years, and has nothing to do with anyone's political agenda in the United States.

So, how did Kim Davis even get into the same room as the Pope?  The culprit appears to be Vatican Ambassador to the US Archbishop Carlo Vigano, appointed to the position by Pope Benedict XVI, and a veteran right-wing culture warrior.  While Francis was turning heads with remarks about LGBT people such as, "Who am I to judge?", Vigano was appearing at anti-LGBT rallies in America alongside evangelicals and other conservatives.  There is growing speculation that Vigano extended the invitation to Davis without the Vatican's knowledge, possibly as part of a broader struggle between Francis and his reforms, and the Benedict loyalists who've been horrified at the Catholic Church's new emphasis on serving the poor instead of fighting abortion and gay marriage. 

In other words.. it might have been a dirty trick.  So, remember the name Carlo Vigano, a long-time Vatican provocateur.  Let's see if Loki pulled one too many pranks, and he meets the same fate as Cardinal Raymond Burke.

Well, the Vatican game of thrones has been fun, but let's go back to the corporeal world.  It's where I keep my stuff.

At least 26 bodies have been recovered from a massive mudslide the village of El Cambray Dos, Guatemala, but hundreds of people are missing.  Heavy rains swept mud and boulders from the steep hillsides down over the valley town which is just 15 kilometers from the capital.  In addition to the 25 dead, 36 survivors were rushed to hospitals.

Brazil's supreme court has ruled that investigators can question popular former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Petrobras bribery scandal.  Investigators want to know if Lula benefited from corporations paying officials for lucrative contracts, which he denies.

Two bomb blasts hit the outskirts of Nigeria's capital Abuja, and officials report several fatalities.  The terrorist group Boko Haram has attacked the capital before, although it is based in the far northeast of Nigeria.

Tunisia is lifting the state of emergency put in place after an Islamist terrorist killed 38 beach-goers at the Sousse resort.  Most of the victims in the June attack were British tourists.  However, restrictions on suspected militants will stay in place because they were part of legislation passed in July outside the emergency declaration.

Spain is naturalizing 4,302 people whose Jewish ancestors were expelled from the country five centuries ago during the Spanish Inquisition.  Most of the Sephardic Jews were dispersed to Morocco, Turkey and Venezuela.  Those applying to return to Spain will have to prove their ancestry and demonstrate skill in the Spanish language.

India is vowing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions increase by up to 35 percent by 2030, compared with 2005 levels.  The country, which is the world's third largest carbon emitter, it aims to generate 40 percent of its electricity from solar, wind, and other non-fossil fuel sources.

Camera operator Kolbjorn Hoseth Larssen thought he'd use his drone aircraft to surreptitiously collect video of a Moose near Storkmarknes, Norway.  But it turned out the big galloot was just as interested in that funny flying thing was was following it around.