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A shark mauled a 65-year old man off the NSW coast at Black Head Beach near Forster, 300 kilometers north of Sydney.  The injured man managed to get back onto his surf ski and went for the shore where bystanders helped him.  He was airlifted to the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle where he underwent surgery in a seriously injured leg.

PM Tony Abbott spent part of his day defending his refugee and immigration policies, after an unprecedented and scathing editorial by the New York Times, which said Abbott's turn-back policies and Australia's off-shore detention camps are ""inhumane, of dubious legality and strikingly at odds with the country's tradition of welcoming people fleeing persecution and war".  Mr. Abbott referred to the recent photos of a three-year old Syrian boy who drowned when his family tried to cross from Turkey to Greece. "If you want to stop the deaths, if you want to stop the drownings you have got to stop the boats," Abbott said on ABC Radio, "Thankfully, we have stopped that in Australia because we have stopped the illegal boats."

The father of that drowned Syrian boy is headed back to one of the worst, most war-torn cities in Syria to bury his family.  Abdullah Kurdi said the boat flipped over and the captain swam off, and he tried but failed to save three-year old Alan, five-year old Ghalib, and their mother Rehanna.  "My kids were amazing.  They woke me every day to play with me.  What is more beautiful than this?  Everything is gone," lamented Mr. Kurdi.  Ironically, Europe wasn't even the preferred destination of the Kurdi family:  They had spent most of the last year trying to get to Canada, where one of Abdullah's sisters had immigrated years ago. 

A judge ordered former Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina be held in prison while hearings take place over his alleged role in a huge bribery scheme.  He had resigned on Wednesday night, after being stripped of his presidential immunity and a court order preventing him from leaving the country.  The country's vice president has been sworn in as caretaker president until the winner of the upcoming elections takes office in January.

Black Sabbath, the Earth's heaviest Heavy Metal band, will do one more tour and then call it quits.  The band announced that Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler will reunite for a final tour that will begin in North America in January.  More dates will be added later, but rest assured that Black Sabbath will make a final sweep of Australia and New Zealand in April 2016.  There's no mention of original drummer Bill Ward, whose health difficulties and clashes with other band members have kept him out of the line-up in recent years.

Thailand unveiled a repaired statue in the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, fixing the damage damaged from the bomb blast that killed 20 people last month.  The Culture Ministry's Fine Arts Department repaired 12 areas of the golden statue that were damaged, most notably restoring one of the chins on its four-faced head.  Two suspects with connections to Turkey and China's Uighur minority have been arrested, leading to speculation that the bombing was a revenge attack for Thailand's forced return of Uighurs trying to escape China for Turkey via Bangkok.  It turns out that stopping migrants and returning them to their oppressors can have a backlash.