Hello, Australia! – Hundreds of thousands march against austerity and sticking up for the underdogs – The Charleston Massacre suspect left an ugly (an unintentionally absurd) manifesto – A shocking domestic violence attack in Tasmania – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Some 250,000 people marched against the painful and failing policies of austerity.  They made their way through London to Parliament Square, where a number of speakers – from Labour’s potential next leader Jeremy Corbyn, Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, several trade union leader and advocates, even Russell Brand – vowed to the Tory government that the most recent election is not the last word on austerity. 

How are Tory austerity policies threatening to harm people?  UK child poverty is on course for the biggest rise since the 1990s, and charities witnessing the tide swell say benefit cuts are to blame.  And union leaders are warning that the National Health Service’s (NHS) seven-day services are in jeopardy as the Tories continues to slash senior nursing positions.  The evidence piles up – these aren’t mistakes that should be repeated in other countries.

In several European cities, thousands more people rallied in solidarity with Greece and against austerity – and also to support the migrants seeking asylum in Europe from poverty and oppression in Africa and the Middle East.  Organizers say 10,000 people marched for World Refugee Day in Berlin, as well as in Paris, Marsailles, Calais, Rome, Madrid, on the beach at Valencia, and elsewhere.

An Austrian man rammed his SUV into crowds in that country’s second-largest city Graz, killing three people and injuring 34 more.  Two children were among those in a critical condition.  After his car came to a halt, he got out and started stabbing people.  But police are not classifying this attack as terrorism – the man had been under a restraining order keeping him from the home of his wife and two children since a domestic violence report against him was filed last month, and mental illness is suspected.

A mother of four in Tasmania is reportedly fighting for life in Royal Hobart Hospital, after her partner doused her with petrol and set her on fire. Her 45-year-old partner has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and is due back in court on Monday.  It’s one of the more egregious examples of Australia’s epidemic of domestic violence – An analysis by the Australian Institute of Criminology last year found that domestic violence kills a woman about once a week in Australia.

The 21-year old right-winger accused of murdering nine black people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina apparently left behind a website and manifesto – now taken down.  In it, Dylann Storm Roof rants about his hatred of Africa-Americans and Latinos and how he was radicalized by a group called the “Council of Conservative Citizens” (CCC).  That group runs a website listing crimes and negative involving African-Americans, and has been associated with Republican Party politicians.  Roof also posted a bunch of photos of himself posing with a gun, with a confederate flag hate symbol, and – preposterously, because of his scrawny and weak build – both shirtless and wearing a Gold’s Gym muscle shirt.

Al Jazeera says Germany arrested one of its journalists at the request of Egypt of all places.  The network says Cairo’s allegations that Ahmed Mansour was somehow guilty of torture is “absurd”.  Mansour said from detention, “It is quite ludicrous that a country like Germany would enforce and support such a request made by a dictatorial regime like the one we have in Egypt.”  Peter Greste would be able to attest to that.

A member of the British Army Red Devil’s parachute team rescued a colleague when the second man’s ‘chute failed to properly.  This was during a demonstration at White Haven Air Show in Cumbria.  The men ditched in a marina, away from the crowd.