Hello Australia! - A verdict in Maggie Kirkpatrick's sex abuse case - Authorities intercept a group of wanna-be jihadis - Australia seems disproportionately interested in an infamous internet hook-up site - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

TV star Maggie Kirkpatrick denied allegations she molested a teenage girl in the 1980s, but a Melbourne magistrate found the accuser to be a "witness of truth", and found the actor guilty.  Kirkpatrick will now be assessed for a Community Corrections Order instead of a prison term.  Kirkpatrick is most-famous for her portrayal of a sadistic prison guard on the 1980s soap "Prisoner".

Authorities stopped at least seven young people at Australian airports, before they could fly out to the Middle East and join terrorist groups.  Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed an incident on 12 August during which five young men carrying significant amounts of cash were stopped before they could leave for the Middle East.  Officials dodn't give too many other details, but said other interceptions happened at Sydney and Melbourne airports.  People caught attempting to travel to certain terrorism-infested parts of the Middle East could be charged and sentenced to ten years in prison if convicted.

A car bomb went off outside an Egyptian national security building outside Cairo, wounding at least 22 people including six police officers.  "A man suddenly stopped his car in front of the state security building, jumped out of it and fled on a motorbike that followed the car," authorities said in a statement.  This comes just days after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi signed off on a wide-ranging anti-terrorism law, giving him authority to muzzle the media in the name of security.

Thai police say they are seeking Interpol's help in tracking down the suspect's in the deadly bombing at Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, and that they can't confirm the alleged attackers are even in the country.  But the BBC reports that authorities believe that ten people were involved in the bomb plot, and that it had been cooked up at least a month in advance.  They also say that Chinese tourists were not the targets.  How cops came up with these oddly specific conclusions was not revealed.

Civil war has left Yemen on the brink of famine, according to the head of the United Nation World Food Program.  Ertharin Cousin says markets are running out of food, aid agencies can't get through because of fighting, and 13 million people are at risk.  The agency had a ship in a port earlier this week when the port was heavily damaged by Saudi airstrikes. 

The hackers who stole the personal information of subscribers to the Ashley Madison hook-up website have dumped it on the "Dark Web", with some fairly interesting results.  It turns out that there are a lot of people in Sydney and Melbourne want to cheat on their spouses - 251,813 and 213,847 subscribers for each city, respectively.  That's only a little behind New York City, a metropolis with a much larger population than Oz's urban centers. 

US gossip sites are reporting that former reality TV star Josh Duggar of the execrable and judgmental "19 Kids and Counting"  had an account on Ashley Madison, the website that promotes nothing else but infidelity.  You'll recall earlier this year, the Duggar family TV series was cancelled and Josh Duggar lost his job at a conservative lobbying group in Washington, DC where he railed against the supposed immorality of same sex marriage after it was revealed he molested a couple of his sisters.