Hello Australia! - Julian Assange will face Swedish investigators - A Chinese tycoonreemerges after disappearing in police custody - America is having a rash of Islamophobic violence - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A Melbourne teen is pleading guilty to planning a terrorist attack with instructions on how to make explosives downloaded from the Internet - including the infamous "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom" article from Islamic State.  Police arrested the 17-year-old in May.  He was facing a committal hearing in a Children's Court today - But he pleaded guilty to one charge before the hearing and prosecutors dropped the other two charges. 

Ecuador will allow Swedish cops to question Julian Assange, who is famously a guest of Ecuador's embassy in London.  Julian took refuge there to avoid sex charges in Sweden that he and his supporters believe are trumped up to silence his revealing international state secrets through Wikileaks.  Assange fears Sweden would extradite him to the US.  The questioning will likely not take place until next year.

A judge in Mexico has sentenced two men to 520 years in prison for the kidnap and murder of 13 young people at a bar in the capital city in 2013.  The victims' bodies were found in a grave outside the city, but not until the families of the 13 organized large street protests demanding action of the police.  The kidnappings shocked Mexico, as it occurred in a popular entertainment district not normally associated with the drug gang violence plaguing the rural areas of the country.

One of China's wealthiest men has apparently been released by authorities.  Fosun International founder Guo Guangchang appeared at his company's annual meeting in Shanghai on Monday.  He went missing last Thursday, and was later revealed to be cooperating with police in a corruption investigation.  Fosun - a massive conglomerate of media, insurance, real estate, and other interests (it even owns Club Med) - says the Guo investigation has nothing to do with the company.

Scuffles broke out outside the hearing for Chinese blogger and human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang.  Authorities accused Mr. Pu of "inciting ethnic hatred" and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" for his blog posts that lambaste the Communist Party for China's policies towards the Uighur Muslim minority in the northwest and Tibet.  Protesters and a BBC reporter was jostled, and plainclothes cops - ironically identified by smiley face stickers on their jackets - prevented an EU diplomat from reading a statement.

The South African Rand is ever-so-slightly recovering after President Jacob Zuma appointed the country's third finance minister in a week.  Zuma sacked Nhlanhla Nene on Wednesday - which sent the Rand and bank shares plunging.  He was replaced by a little known minister David van Rooyen.  But that comes to an end when Monday morning rolls around to Pretoria, and the more experienced Pravin Gordhan is appointed.  Observers believe the chaos does little to restore confidence in South Africa.  The credit agency Fitch downgraded the country's bonds to a notch above "junk" status.

A 23-year old California man is charged with five felonies including hate crimes and arson for allegedly setting fire to a mosque in the town of Coachella.  It's not too far from San Bernardino, where a husband and wife who were inspired by Islamic State and other Middle eastern radicals shot up an office holiday party, killing 14 people, before they were killed in a shootout with police.  The parents of arson suspect Carl Dial describe him as a "loner". 

The charges against Carl Dial comes only days after Republican frontrunner Donald Trump proposed a ban on Muslims entering the US.  In fact, there have been 63 anti-Muslim incidents at mosques so far in 2015 - triple the number of similar incidents in 2014 - and at least 19 Islamophobic attacks in America since Trump's idiotic speech.  These have include shootings, death threats, bashings and brutal physical assaults, arson, vandalism, more vandalism, and crimes aimed at the wrong groups because American haters are too stupid to tell the difference.