Some of you should GO HOME from your job.  Seriously!  Details after the jump – India makes arrests after the rape of a tourist – A cop in an iconic photo of police abuse faces repercussions.

Hey, do you like the weather?  No?  Well, get used to it.  The Climate Council’s new report says Australia’s heat waves will be hotter and last longer, because of greenhouse gases continuing to accumulate in the atmosphere – commonly known as “Global Warming”.  In fact, you’d have to be some sort of alien reptile creature not to notice.  If fact, I’m sure all climate change skeptics have shut off their coolers today, because it’s not happening.

Adelaide and Melbourne are setting high temperature records today.  At least nine players collapsed, retired, or forfeited matches at the Open, and play was suspended.  If you haven’t yet left work in Melbourne, please do consider it: Metro Trains is urging people to leave the CBD as early as possible this afternoon as “this afternoon’s peak will present significant challenges for our train air-conditioning units.”

Indian police have arrested two men in the gang-rape of a Danish woman who was accosted at knife-point near her hotel in Delhi.  It’s the latest example of brutal assaults against women that have set the nation into a period of deep soul searching over the crimes.  Another man has also been arrested in Chennai after allegedly raping an 18-year-old German on a train last week.  Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.

A United States Senate panel says the deadly attack on an American facility in Benghazi, Libya was “preventable”.  US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three more men were killed.  The report says warnings of deteriorating security were ignored. 

Turkish prosecutors want a cop to go to prison for three years for one of the more shameful examples of police brutality during last year’s Gezi Park protests.  Fatih Zengin was photographed tear gassing Ceyda Sungur, who became known as the “Woman in Red” in the photos that went viral worldwide.  Sungur was basically just standing there, not posing any threat to anyone.  The assault left her doubled over and gasping for air, and became symbolic of the Turkish government’s heavy-handed response to the protests.

A court in Colombia has put off the sacking of Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro, saying any action must wait until it is determined if the veteran Leftist politician’s rights had been violated.  By a quirk of the country’s constitution, a conservative prosecutor had earlier ordered Petro removed and banned from office because he de-privatized garbage collection in Colombia’s largest city.  Bogota mayor is often a stepping-stone to Colombia’s presidency.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in his first State of the Union address announced he is revamping his economic council.  Maduro vowed to introducer tougher penalties against “sabotage and speculation”, specifically pointing out a series of shortages in 2013 including milk, sugar, and toilet paper.  He says anyone who causes a shortage of baby formula to make political gains is a "criminal" - no new term needs to be coined.

A man-eating Tiger in India is now believed to have killed seven people in the past two weeks.  The latest victim was a woman whose body was found in the forest in northern Uttar Pradesh state on Tuesday.  Hunters have been deployed to track and kill the Tigress, which is believed to have roamed over an 130 kilometer range.  And she’s not the only man-eater on the prowl.  Further south in Tamil Nadu state, another tiger has killed three people, forcing local officials to shut schools to protect the kids.