Hello Australia! - The price tag on the Christmas Island riot keeps getting bigger - Russia really wants you to know how it accidentally revealed plans for a horrible weapon - Chimpanzees reveal how we learned that it takes a village.. - Skateboarding dog, Baby Panda, and more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is confirming that the riot at the Christmas Island detention facility caused A$10 Million in damage.  That's ten times higher than the initial estimate.  The ABC reports at least two of the prisoners taken out of there and transferred to Perth are members of bikie gangs - Dutton refers to them as the nation's "worst criminals".  Trouble broke out earlier this week after the death of an Iranian Kurdish detainee whose body was found hours after he escaped the facility.

Northern Territory's Corrections Commissioner Ken Middlebrook has stepped down after the escape of a very dangerous inmate from a prison work camp. Edward Horrell was assigned to the Datjala Work Camp, despite his convictions for rape and murder that should have made him ineligible.  He escaped Monday night but is not back in custody.  Horrell's was the latest in a string of high-profile escapes from NT youth and adult correctional facilities.

Catalan's regional parliament is vowing to ignore an order from Spain's Constitutional Court to suspend the secession process.  That order was sought by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who now faces the task of holding his country together while seeking to extend his party's rule.  The ruling stated that if secession leaders "fail to comply with the suspension, they may commit disobedience" - and that appears to be happening.  Earlier this week, the Catalan lawmakers passed a motion to commence creating a constitution, treasury and social security system within 30 days, with a goal of seceding from Spain in 18 months.

24-year old pro-skier Ian McIntosh survived a tumble of almost 490 meters down a mountain in the Neacola range in Alaska.  It happened in April but video is surfacing now.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is ordering an investigation into allegations his national athletes are chock full o' banned performance-enhancing substances.  The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent commission revealed its damning findings on Monday, and there are calls to ban Russian athletes from taking part in next year's Rio Olympics.  Putin is ordering "professional co-operation" with anti-doping bodies.  "The battle must be open," said Mr. Putin, "A sporting contest is only interesting when it is honest."  However, his deputies are continuing to be combative, denying the allegations and accusing other countries of having worse controls.

Two Russian TV channels "accidentally" displayed plans for a nuclear-tipped torpedo during a photo op with President Vladimir Putin.  The Kremlin controls both channels through its rather extensive propaganda arm, and later - when no western sources were talking about it in public - discussed the purported "accident" on its Western cable TV channel RT.  So let's face it, this was pretty much a planned leak.  The documents displayed for several seconds in the report say that such torpedoes would create "zones of extensive radioactive contamination making them unsuitable for military or economic activity for a long period".  It's not clear what the Kremlin was trying to accomplish, considering that such weapons have been around for half a century.

Japan says a UN investigators has retracted her claim that 13 percent of Japanese teenage girls engage in "compensated dating", a practice in which creepy older men pay for dates with younger girls.  Tokyo bitterly complained that there was no statistical basis for Maud de Boer-Buquicchio's allegation.  She later wrote a letter admitting there was no back-up for the 13 percent figure, and it will not be included in her report to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council - which will still talk about Japan's problem with "compensated dating".

Researchers observed a Chimpanzee mother in the wild of Tanzania caring for her disabled baby - providing a glimpse how social care might have evolved in humans.  Researchers from Kyoto University noted the mother accepted her sister's help in caring for the baby girl, which they believe had the Chimpanzee equivalent of Down Syndrome.  But the mother wasn't so keen on having other members of the group pick up the baby, even though she had welcomed their help with her other children.  The mother and her sister worked out their own system for physically supporting the girl while she fed, helping her to survive for almost two years.

Panda baby BeiBei takes his first steps at the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, DC.

Bulldog Otto skateboards through 30 pairs of human legs, setting a new record.

Canadian environmentalists are not happy, as Montreal has commenced dumping what is expected to be eight billion liters of raw sewage into the St.Lawrence River while  the sewer system is going through some much needed upgrades.  Officials say this is the only way to do it when crews do their work.  Residents are urged to avoid flushing condoms, prescription drugs, and used diapers (????) while the work lasts - about a week.  Montreal officials claim the dump will have little effect on the fish population and will not affect the quality of drinking water which I really, really hope they're getting from up-river.