Hello Australia!! - David Bowie is dead at age 69 - Aid to Syria's village of the starving may finally get underway - Fire guts the offices of an NGO that monitors abuses against Palestinians - Ricky Gervais tears Hollywood a new one, and Mel Gibson might wish he were somewhere else on awards night - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Legendary Singer and Actor David Bowie is dead at age 69.  Statements on his website and official social media accounts say Bowie died peacefully and surrounded by his family after an 18 month struggle with cancer, which came as a shock as most of the world didn't know he was ill.  His most recent album "Black Star" just came out this month. 

The UN hopes to move a food and aid convoy to the Syrian town of Madaya on Monday, after last minute glitches prevented the life-saving mission on Sunday.  Around 40,000 people are in the town near Lebanon's border, with residents said to be eating pets and grass to survive.  Five people died over the weekend, including a nine-year old boy.  One the trucks get rolling, it will be the first aid delivery since October.  Two other villages in the north are also slated to get food aid - but these are just a fraction of the nearly 400,000 people in more than a dozen besieged locations who do not have access to life-saving aid.

Turkey has escalated attacks on suspected militants in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, killing at least 32 people over the weekend.  It was one of the bloodiest weekends since the ceasefire between the Turkish government and Kurdish groups broke down last July.  "We will pursue our anti-terror fight with great determination until our mountains, plains and towns are cleansed of these killers," said Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.  According to the pro-Kurdish HDP party, 81 civilians have been killed since last month.

Investigators are determining if arson was the cause of a fire in the offices of B'Tselem, an Israeli group that monitors human rights among Palestinians.  It comes at a time of heightened tensions since 1 October: Vandalism and arson attacks by Israeli nationalist groups have caused damage to Palestinian homes and businesses; Palestinian stabbings, car-rammings and shooting attacks have killed 21 Israelis and a US citizen; Israeli forces or armed civilians have killed at least 139 Palestinians.  The right-wing Likud government has also proposed laws that would limit international donations to B'Tselem and other NGOs.

Argentine President Mauricio Macri is drawing fierce criticism, even from former supporters, for the first weeks of his term in office:  Macri promised more openness and dialogue in contrast to his controversial predecessor Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, but has rammed through a rapid succession of controversial presidential decrees while congress is out of session.  These include attempts to appoint Supreme Court justices - now delayed until congress gets back - as well as tax cuts for business and scrapping a law that prevented media monopolies.  "I'm very saddened because everything Macri had done had moved me almost to tears but this horrifies me," said one of Argentina's chief constitutional experts Daniel Sabsay.

The wilderness survival and revenge film "The Revenant" was the big winner in Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, the drunken fraternal twin sibling to the Academy Awards.  Hosted by a foul-mouthed and hilarious Ricky Gervais, "The Revenant" took the top prizes:  Best Dramatic Motion Picture, Best Actor for star Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Director for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. 

Gervais' opening monologue spared no one, referring to the audience of Hollywood elites as "disgusting, pill-popping, sexually deviant scum";  referring to Caitlyn Jenner's deadly car crash on the Pacific Coast Highway and trans status with the line, "She didn’t do a lot for women drivers";  introducing the 2015 film "Spotlight" - about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal - then saying Roman Polanski called it 'the best date movie ever' "; introducing Matt Damon as "the only person Ben Affleck hasn’t been unfaithful to."

But by far, Gervais' best lines were reserved for his favorite target Mel Gibson, who he introduced later in the show.  "I'm sure it's embarrassing for both of us, and I blame (US television network) NBC for this terrible situation," said Gervais. "Mel blames - well, we know who Mel blames," referring to Gibson's career-stalling arrest and anti-Semitic rant.  Then after Gibson came out on stage, Gervais asked him, "“What the f*** does 'sugar t*ts' even mean?' "  Best reaction:  Alan Cumming.