Hello Australia! - Thailand appears to zero in on a suspect in the deadly shrine bombing - PM Abbott warns the government to stick to his line on Gay Marriage - Not there yet, but the end of the Ebola epidemic is finally within reach - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The head of Thailand's military government says authorities are hunting a suspect in the bombing that killed at least 21 people in Bangkok.  The man is reportedly seen on CCTV video entering the Erawan shrine with a rucksack or bag, and leaving without it.  Junta Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha is suggesting the man comes from the country's northeast - the electoral stronghold of the democratically-elected government that Prayuth overthrew last year.  Deputy Defense Minister General Udomdej Sitabutr says the type of bomb and placement doesn't fit with the pattern of bombings associated with a low-level Islamist insurgency in the south.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has read the riot act to his ministers, telling them to end their public spats over the Gay Marriage issue - or face consequences.  This comes after Social Services Minsiter Scott Morrison backed a referendum on changing the constitution, and was immediately contradicted by Attorney General George Brandis who noted that changing the constitution wasn't necessary.  Foreign Minister Julie Bishop urged her colleagues to think about how public divisions would impact next month's by-election in Canning, WA.  But recent polling says the election could produce a 10 percent swing against the Liberals.

There were no survivors of the Trigana Airlines crash in eastern Indonesia on Sunday.  The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane went down on on a mountainside in bad weather, carrying 54 passengers and crew.  Search teams that were finally able to access the crash site located all 54 bodies.  Not clear is fate of four bags containing the equivalent of A$660,000 in cash, intended as welfare payments for poor villagers living in remote places in Papua.

Rights activists are accusing the Mexican government of stonewalling their independent investigation into the disappearances and apparent murders of 43 student teachers in Iguala town in September of last year.  The team from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights tried to interview members of the military, but was told it had to submit questionaires instead.  The investigators say that security videos containing visual evidence may have been destroyed.  The Interior Ministry is not commenting on the allegations.

For the first time in more than a year, Sierra Leone reported no new cases of Ebola.  That's a major accomplishment for the country, which was dealing with as many as 500 new cases per week at the height of the West African Ebola Epidemic, which killed almost 11,300 people since December 2013.  Guinea reported three new infections last week, whereas Liberia has had no new cases since 23 July.  The World Health Organization's representative in Sierra Leone Dr. Anders Nordstrom said, "It's important for Sierra Leone that we have come this far, but it's not over for the region until we are at zero for 42 days in all three countries."

 

Royal Thai Army chief and deputy defence minister General Udomdej Sitabutr said: "This does not match with incidents in southern Thailand. - See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/08/18/bangkok-bomb-blast-toll-rises-to-210.html#sthash.XwS3fHwv.dpuf