Hello Australia! - Several are killed when a vintage jet crashes into a busy highway - Authorities identify the terrorist stopped by off-duty American servicemen before he could shoot up a Paris-bound train - North and South Korea appear to pull back from the brink - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The French and US Presidents are praising the two American military members who tackled and subdued a heavily-armed dirtbag terrorist on a high speed train travelling from Amsterdam to Paris.  Authorities say the gunman entered the train with with a Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol, and a sharp weapon described as a box cutter.  But his planned bloodbath didn't happen, because of Oregon National Guard member Alek Skarlatos and Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone - both of whom were on the suspect within seconds.  Stone was hurt in the fight.  Their friend, Anthony Sadler, and Brit business man Chris Norman got in there are helped restrain the suspect.

The gunman is identified as 26-year old Ayoub El-Khazzani, a Moroccan with ties to Islamic extremists in known to security agencies in western Europe.  Spanish authorities had alerted French intelligence to El-Khazzani in February 2014 because he "belonged to the radical Islamist movement", and the French put him on a security watch list.  He had been tracked to Berlin and Belgium prior to this week's attempted attack on the Amsterdan-to-Paris train.

A car bomb targeting a convoy carrying civilian NATO contractors killed twelve people outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Three of the dead are identified as Americans, most were Afghans.  The Taliban denied responsibility for the attack, but the fact is is that bombings have increased in the days since it was revealed that Taliban leader Mullah Omar has been dead for years and a power struggle to replace him opened up.

Seven people were killed outside an airshow in Shoreham-by-Sea, England, when a Hunter Hawker jet lost control during a loop maneuver and crashed onto the busy A27 highway, which runs next to Shoreham Airport.  The fireball could be seen for several kilometers around as it rose up in the otherwise clear sky.  The Hunter Hawker was a mainstay of the RAF during the 1950s and '60s, and is still used for training today.  The pilot was listed as in an extremely critical condition in Royal Sussex County Hospital. 

There's been another large explosion in China, this time at a chemical plant in Zibo in Shandong Province.  The People's Daily newspaper said there is a residential area about one kilometer from the plant.  Earlier this month, a chemical warehouse in Tianjin exploded, killing more than 120 people - 54 remain missing.

A South Korea government spokesperson says high-level talks with North Korea at the Panmunjom truce village have adjourned until Sunday afternoon.  The two sides agreed to the urgent discussions after tensions on the border last week.  Pyongyang had threatened "strong military action" if the South did not stop propaganda broadcasts from a louspeaker array on the border, and the two sides traded artillery.

Venezuela declared a state of emergency along the border near Colombia following an attack by smugglers in which three soldiers and a civilian were injured.  President Nicolas Maduro said the emergency would last 60 days in five towns in Tacira state, and the border would be closed until further notice.  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos condened the move, saying it would adversly impact civilians.  But Colombian smugglers have taken advantage of Venezuela's price controls to buy retail items, bring it all across, and sell it at a profit - creating product shortages in Venezuela.

Thousands of Middle Eastern refugees pushed passed police lines and crossed from Greece into Macedonia, which had declared a state of emergency on its southern border to try and prevent that sort of thing.  The people ran through fields and forest, avoiding the main roads.  Macedonia had tried to let a few hundred in at a time to coincide with train schedules.  The refugees ride north to Serbia, using it as a transit point to northern Europe.

Meanwhile, the crisis of thousands upon thousands of refugees pouring into Europe continues unabated:  Italy's Navy spent saturday rescuing some three thousand in boats crossing the Meditarranean.