Hello Australia! - Rock singer Scott Weiland is dead - An Australian man's family want an exemption from terrorism laws - The FBI digs through the digital media of the San Bernardino killers - Israel makes arrests in a case that brought widespread condemnation - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Scott Weiland, the troubled former frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver who weathered years of public struggles with drug addiction, is dead at age 48.  His Facebook page confirms he died in his sleep on the tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota while out on the road with his latest band The Wildabouts.  A cause of death was not provided and the statement asked that "the privacy of Scott's family be respected".

A Brisbane man has been detained in Germany and will be extradited to Australia on terrorism charges.  Ashley Dyball has been fighting against Islamic State as a member of the Kurdish YPG militia, one of the only effective fighting forces against IS.  He was traveling in Europe for the holiday when Germany detained him.  Dyball's family is asking the federal government to grant him a special amnesty from the foreign fighters law because he fought Islamic State terrorists.

One of the first police officers to respond to the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California is describing scenes of "carnage" where husband-and-wife shooters killed 14 people and wounded 21 more.  Lieutenant Mike Madden said he and officers had to walk past the dead bodies and the wounded survivors as they tried to "engage the shooters".  Officers arriving shortly after led people in the building - some injured, some still frightened of the shooters - out to safety.  28-year old Syed Rizwan Farook and his 27-year old wife Tashfeen Malik were later killed in a shootout with police. 

The FBI is is investigating if Farook and Malik had been "radicalized" by contacts with Islamic State, but the couple apparently took great pains to cover their tracks.  Sometime before the fatal shootout, the destroyed their mobile phones, hard drives, and pretty much any digital media.  The Feds have some pretty impressive capabilities to mine data from damaged media, but a law enforcement source said, "they are not miracle workers."

Israeli authorities finally arrested several members of a Jewish terrorist group in the arson that killed 18-month old Palestinian Toddler Ali Dawabsha and his parents.  The toddler's four-year old brother is still being treated for his burns from the firebombing of the Dawabsha home in the West Bank on 31 July.  The slow pace of the investigation has frustrated Palestinians and some international observers; earlier this week, a UN special envoy urged Israel to bring in teh suspects.

Ecuador's assembly approved a constitutional amendment that gets rid of term limits for the President and other elected officials.  President Rafael Correa has stated he has no intention of running for another term in 2017, but opponents accuse him of changing the law to to tighten his grip on power.  Lawmakers also approved reforms that change the role of the armed forces, the media and labor relations.