Howdy, Australia! - South Korea promises a "pitiless penalty" after one of its soldiers is horribly mamed - Cops shoot and kill Tiger poachers - Tragedy hits the family of singer Annie Lennox - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Liberal MPs picked backbencher Tony Smith of Victoria as the new House Speaker, succeeding Bronwyn Bishop.  Smith says he will not attend any party room meetings.  Opposition leader Bill Shorten welcomed that, but cautioned, "Serving as a Speaker is a privilege, not a prize; a responsibility, not a reward."

South Korea is blaming the North for a landmine blast that tore the legs off of one of its soldiers, promising a "pitiless penalty" for Pyongyang's "provocations".  This happened in the DMZ, the most-heavily fortified frontier in the world.   Defense officials in Seoul said North Koreans had earlier snuck across the border to plant three mines close to a South Korean post.  When the soldier was injured last week, Seoul initially said it did not suspect North Korean involvement.

Demonstrators around the US and even a few allies abroad marked one year since the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white cop in Ferguson, Missouri.  The killing brought the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US, raising consciousness of police violence.  But very little has actually changed, as American cops have shot and killed more than 700 people so far this year - that's more than three fatalities per day.

An activist who was helping families search for their missing relatives has been killed in Mexico.  Miguel Angel Jimenez Blanco led search parties after last year's disappearance of 43 student-teachers in Iguala town in crime-ridden Guerrero state.  Heis body was found outside his home, one of at least 15 people killed in Guerrero over the weekend.  The search for the 43 - whom police believe were killed at the orders of the mayor of Iguala - turned up scores of unrelated clandestine graves.  Jimenez Blanco helped excavate some of those graves.

Police in Bangladesh killed six suspected Tiger poachers in a shootout in the mangrove swamps of the Sunderbans nature area, a UNESCO World Heritage site that is home to a dwindling population of the endangered animals.  Local police chief Harendranath Sarker said, "The poachers first fired at us as we raided their den at Mandarbaria canal in the forest.  We fired back.  Six poachers were killed in the gunfight."  They recovered three Tiger pelts and several weapons.  A decade ago, there were 440 tigers in the preserve; but because of poaching, the most recent estimate is down to about 105.

Flooding in Myanmar has routed more than a million people from their homes, killed around 100 people, and destroyed more than a million acres of rice fields.  The flooding was already bad in this monsoon season, but the arrival of Cyclone Komen last week made it the worst in decades.

Police in Israel shot and killed a Palestinian who had allegedly stabbed a man at a filling station in the West Bank.  The stabbing victim wasn't badly hurt, but it happened in an area already on the edge because of the 31 July arson attack that killed a Palestinian baby and his father.

Rescuers pulled the daughter of singer Annie Lennox from the Hudson River north of New York City.  22-year-old Tali Lennox Fruchtmann was kayaking with her boyfriend when the small boat overturned and they became separated.  Searchers in boats and on foot on the banks have not found 32-year old Ian Jones. 

New York City's 2nd Avenue Subway Sinatra is missing.  Police are investigating a missing persons report on 54-year old Gary Russo, a construction worker who gained some fame with a 2011 video of his rendition of Frank Sinatra's "Summer Wind", sung on his lunch break in his hard hat.  The clip got a million views on the first week it was posted.  Russo was last seen on 28 July, leaving his home in the morning.