Hello Australia!! - One day left for negotiations in Paris, and delegates inch up on a deal to stop Global Warming - A petition to ban Donald Trump is the most popular petition on a UK government site - A cop is convicted of being a serial rapist - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says delegates at the COP21 global warming conference in Paris are about "80 percent there" towards reaching an agreement.  Friday is the last day of scheduled talks on cutting greenhouse gases and slowing climate change.  The big problem is with the smaller, developing countries which say they need financial assistance from the big industrialized nations to develop their economies in new ways that don't make the planet hotter. There's a consensus that a global agreement needs to be in place by 2020, and Paris is the last, best hope of reaching that goal.

The Parramata children's court refused bail for the 15-year old boy arrested in yesterday's counter-terrorism arrests in Sydney's southwest.  He's among five people charged, three of them were already in prison.  Authorities say the boy's mobile phone contained images of him with a gun, an Islamic State flag, and a photo of a beheading.

Morons broke into a Townsville, Queensland home and vandalized it with profane and threatening graffiti, apparently because of a sign with Arabic lettering above the door, causing A$50,000 in damage.  Problem is, the sign is 30-years old and the family that lives there isn't even Muslim.  The original owners were from Pakistan, and three decades ago they put up the sign which reads, "Peaceful welcome." 

More than half a million Brits have signed a petition asking Parliament to ban the nasty, mendacious bigot Donald Trump from entering the UK.  It's the most-popular petition ever on the UK government website.  Supporters of the ban point out that American bigots like the Westboro Baptist church and Ku Klux Klan, as well as Islamist "hate" preachers and anti-Islam bloggers have been blocked from the UK.  In his campaign for the republican party presidential nomination, Trump has demonized Mexicans, Blacks, and Muslims, while he has belittled women and mocked a physically disabled journalist.

Venezuela's outgoing assembly tweeked its incoming foes by appointing a new Human Rights Ombudsman - the judge who sentenced leading conservative politician Leopoldo Lopez to 14 years in prison for stirring the deadly riots in 2014.  "We're happy the bourgeoisie is attacking a courageous woman," said National Assembly leader and Socialist Party heavyweight Diosdado Cabello of Judge Susana Barreiros. "That means we're on the right road."  Undoing the appointment isn't impossible, but will require taking a case to the Supreme Court.  In a further sign that the Socialists will not play nice with the incoming right wingers, President Nicolas Maduro vowed to appoint more than a dozen new Supreme Court justices.

Amid months of complaints that American cops are out of control, a jury convicted an ex-Oklahoma City police officer of raping 13 African American women.  Prosecutors say 29-year old Daniel Holtzclaw preyed on women he ran across on patrol, selecting those with legal troubles and substance abuse issues in hopes that their word wouldn't stack up against his.  Eventually officials had to listen to the women.  "He exercised authority on those society doesn't care about," Assistant District Attorney Gayland Gieger said in closing arguments. The jury recommended a 263 year prison term when sentencing is passed next month.

A suspected home burglar in Florida worried too much about police and not enough about alligators when he tried to avoid detection by hiding in a pond.  Police say 22-year old Matthew Riggins turned up tens days after going missing during a search for mysterious men walking through yards in Barefoot Bay.  Part of Riggins was found with the 'gator standing guard over it, and the rest of him was found inside the beast after they killed it and took it in for a necroposy.