Hello Australia!! - A nation is stunned as cops arrest a hero to millions - There's now even more evidence linking the Zika virus to two neurological disordered - A stunning assault on the free media in Europe's most troubling corner - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is defiant and maintains his innocence after being detained by police for three hours for questioning in the scandal at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company.  Lula accuses the police of attempting to poison his political future:  "If they wanted to hear from me, they only had to call and I would have gone, because I owe nothing to anyone and fear nothing."  His successor President Dilma Rousseff also said it had been "unnecessary" to take him into custody.  Lula said he wanted to run for President again in 2018.

Clashes broke out outside Lula's home once word of the detention spread, such is his ongoing appeal.  The oligarchs and one percent have good reason to fear Lula:  Lula and Rousseff's ruling Workers' Party is facing a recession now; but since gaining power in 2003 Brazil has seen a period of spectacular economic growth and a fall in inequality.  The consumerist middle class went from 37 percent to 50 percent; 20 million people rose out of extreme poverty; Illiteracy went from 25.4 percent to 9.6 percent by 2010.

The ceiling collapsed in a cathedral under construction in the southern Mexican town of Oaxaca, killing three workers and injuring several more.

Sometimes, you can have too much trust.

Science is one step closer to positively linking the Zika virus to reports of brain abnormalities in babies.  A new report published in the journal Cell Stem Cell documents lab tests in which the mosquito-borne virus was able to destroy or disrupt the growth of pre-natal "neural progenitor cells", which build the brain and nervous system.  Brazil has reported more than 4,800 confirmed and suspected cases of babies born with microcephaly, which is abnormally small skulls and brains.  With new evidence linking Zika to birth defects of the brain, and to the paralysis of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, the UN World Health Organization is calling an emergency meeting on Tuesday to review these studies. 

A Turkish court has ordered an opposition newspaper that has been critical of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan be placed under state control.  Turkey ranks 149th in the 180 countries in the Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom Index 2015 - now it's a little worse.  Zaman said the country was going through its "darkest and gloomiest days in terms of freedom of the press".  The paper is associated with the influential US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally.

Police in Pakistan stopped the planned marriage of a 10-year old girl and 14-year old boy before it could take place on Friday.  They also arrested four village elders who ordered the ceremony to settle a dispute between the families, bronze age-style.  Both families were in the Hindu minority living in Punjab's Rahimyar Khan district near the Indian border, although such arranged marriages are a problem all over Pakistan and are illegal.

Rupert Murdoch finally met a woman who can appreciate his warm personality and stunning good looks; the media magnate married former model Jerry Hall in a civil ceremony at Spencer House in London.  He's 84 and was married three times previously.  She's 59, and her marriage to Mick Jagger was declared null. 

Would the 1990s please just f*****g end already?!  Los Angeles Police say they are DNA testing a knife that was allegedly found on the former estate of fallen footballer and actor O.J. Simpson.  Simpson got away with.. oh, I mean "was acquitted of" stabbing and slashing to death his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in June of 1994; although he was convicted of unrelated offenses in 2008 and is serving a 33 year prison term.  Or as I call it, "The prosecutor's consolation prize".  Anyway, the knife used in killings was never found.  Now, a retired cop who believed the murder cases were closed came forward with a knife that was purportedly unearthed when the new owners of O.J.'s home razed it in 1998.