Hello Australia!! - Police say the gunman who killed five Dallas cops hated white people - The way cops ended the killings opens the door to a troubling future - But a better future await children in two nations, with the banning of a loathsome practice - And more in your CareerSpot Global News:

Dallas, Texas police say the man who shot and killed five police officers hated white police officers.  "He said he was upset about the recent police shootings," Chief David O. Brown said, referring to the police killings of black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and outside Saint Paul, Minnesota.  "The suspect said he was upset at white people.  The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," the chief added.  He identified the gunman as 25-year old Micah Johnson, an Army Reserve veteran who served in Afghanistan and lived in the Dallas area.  He had no ties to radical or foreign groups, nor to any US political groups; but police say they found bomb making material, ammunition, and a combat journal in his home.

The killing of Dallas shooting suspect Micah Johnson appears to be the first time police used a robot sent on a kill mission.  Police had the suspect cornered in a multi-storey parking garage, and sent in something called a MARCbot.  Originally designed for bomb disposal, the police rigged an explosive to it and sent it in to detonate within lethal range - a practice adapted from battlefield use during the Iraq War.  And yes, it is as troubling as it sound - a supposed representative Democracy sending a drone unit an an extra-judicial killing against a citizen.

A dozen people died of dehydration and heat exhaustion in an end-of-Ramadan traffic jam on Java.  The multitudes converged on a single traffic junction in Brebes, Indonesia, where road construction had already caused traffic to slow down.  Most of the victims were elderly people overcome by the heat, as well as the very young including a baby who suffocated on car fumes.

Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 35 people in an attack by so-called Islamic State at a Shiite shrine in the Iraqi town of Balad.  And the Iraqi government raised the death toll from last weekend's truck bombing at a popular market in Baghdad has again been raised, from 281 to 292.

Two victories for children's rights campaigners in Africa:  Tanzania's high court banned child marriages for people younger than 18 years of age.  And the Gambia's autocrat President Yayha Jammeh decreed that anyone marrying a girl below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years. 

Chile detained the former army Commander-In-Chief for political murders during the Pinochet dictatorship.  Retired general Juan Emilio Cheyre is charged with complicity in the killing of 15 Left-wing militants during the "caravan of death" at the start of the country’s military dictatorship in 1973.  Thousands were killed during Pinochet's rule, and tens of thousands were tortured.