Hello, Australia! – Doctors are fighting to save a baby who was attacked by a dog – Chris Pyne rejects public school means testing – Indonesia seems to be preparing another execution of a foreigner – Why did Israel bomb its own drone? – And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

A newborn baby was rushed into emergency surgery after being mauled by the family pet early this morning.  This happened in Campbelltown, in Sydney’s southwest.  The girl’s father woke up at 3:30am to find the Malamute dog savaging the seven-day old girl’s face.  A spokesperson at Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick said the baby was in a serious condition, though the injuries may not be life-threatening. 

The rich are getting richer and the wealth gap is widening – that’s according to the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS).  The group’s new report says that the wealthiest 20 percent now take in around five times as much as those in the lowest 20 percent.  “We’ve had a big trend here in terms of disproportionate growth of income by people at the top end compared to those at the bottom,” said ACOSS’s Doctor Cassandra Goldie who added, “Whilst we are nowhere near yet where, for example, the United States is in terms of the divide in the community, we are clearly heading in the wrong direction.”  The top ten percent got a 72 percent raise in the past few decades – the bottom ten saw a mere 16 percent hike.

Education Minister Christopher Pyne has rejected a proposal to have the wealthiest parents – those who can easily afford it, some might say – pay tuition to send their kids to public schools.  Treasurer Joe Hockey backed up Pyne, and PM Tony Abbott sidestepped the issue saying, “Whether state or territory governments choose to change the way schools are funded in their states and territories is absolutely a matter for them.”  But Labor education spokesman Mark Butler noted that free public education is a right and also will not support the proposal.

The Indonesian administrative court in Jakarta has rejected the final appeal of a French national facing execution for drug offenses.  Serge Atlaoui was arrested in 2005 for alleged involvement in an ecstasy factory.  France opposes the death penalty, and there is intense interest in the case there – especially among those who believe Atlaoui is innocent.  French President Francois Hollande is warning of diplomatic and economic fallout if Atlaoui is executed.

More extreme heat is pounding Pakistan’s Sindh province, where 120 people have already died in this nasty heatwave.  Most of the deaths occurred in Karachi, where temperatures topped 45C degrees.  Last month, a heatwave next door in India killed some 1,700.

An Israeli warplane crossed over to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley to destroy one of its drones that crashed there.  The information comes from Lebanese sources, and the Israeli Defense Force is not commenting.  But Lebanese TV later showed pieces of wreckage it claimed were from the downed robot aircraft.  It’s not clear what the drone was doing or what caused it to fail.

Iran’s parliament voted to ban foreign access to military sites, documents and scientists as part of any future deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program.  If ratified, that’s going to cause a problem with the nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the six-nation group – The US, UK, France, Russia, China, and Germany.  The six will insist on some sort of outside verification that Iran is sticking to the deal aimed at cutting back on Tehran’s nuclear program.

Polish investigators are determining how hackers accessed the computers of the national airline LOT, disrupting flight plans at Warsaw's Okecie airport.  The hack disrupted the plans of more than 1,400 passengers on almost two-dozen flights to northern and central Europe.  LOT insists its computers are state-of-the-art, meaning there is a threat to other airlines.