Hello, Australia! – Islamic State puts up a child to do its dirty work – It turns out cameras were rolling when two choppers crashed in mid-air with deadly results – Top Gear’s Clarkson is in trouble again – The jury left no “Blurred Lines” in the ruling against Robin Thicke and Pharrell – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militias entered Tikrit for the first time since Islamic State (IS) occupied the city last year, and citizens are celebrating.  The militants reportedly blew up the area’s only bridge over the Tigris River to slow Iraq’s advance.  But even as IS lost real estate, it doubled down on its biggest asset, the ability to shock and sicken.  IS posted a video showing a young boy apparently executing a 19-year old Israeli Arab man accused of being a spy. 

Nigerian media says the death toll from today’s Boko Haram bombing in Maiduguri killed at least 25 people.  A young female was seen entering the northeastern town’s Monday Market, apparently carrying the explosives that she set off or were detonated remotely.  It comes days after coordinated bombings killed more than 50 people in Maiduguri.

About 80 children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon cannot remember their names or where they came from.  And the kids, aged 5- to 18-years old, didn’t speak any local languages, English, or French.  Aid workers say the children had spent so long with their captors – and cut off from their families – being indoctrinated in jihadist ideology, that they had lost track of who they were.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos ordered a halt to bombing raids against Marxist FARC rebels for a month.  Santos is reciprocating the FARC’s unilateral ceasefire.  It’s a good sign of progress in ending the country’s five decade civil war.

Video has emerged showing the exact moment that two helicopters collided in mid-air over Villa Castelli in Argentina’s northern La Rioja province.  Eight French nationals including three famed athletes and two Argentine pilots were killed, there were no survivors.  The video shows the choppers flying entirely too close to each other, and one flies into the other just before they plunge to the ground.  French aviation experts will join Argentine investigators at the crash scene.

In America, officials at the University of Oklahoma expelled two students for leading the racist chanting by fraternity members, recorded on mobile video and posted to social media.  Two young people on the video, including the kid in the tuxedo who is seen standing and encouraging others to sing the stupid song, issued profuse apologies although it’s not clear if they’re the two who were expelled.  But there’s a bus full of 19-year olds singing a racist song they were taught by someone, and several people have come forward to say the song has been associated with the Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat for decades.  And for some reason, it only became a problem when it was caught on video.

The BBC suspended Jeremy Clarkson, host of the hugely popular show “Top Gear”.  The reason is some mysterious “fracas” during which Clarkson reportedly hit one of the producers.  The current season has three episodes left, and this Sunday’s has been taken off the schedule.  Clarkson is/was paid almost A$2 Million to hang around with the other two guys, go to some country, and say some racist stuff while making fun of the cars.

A jury in Los Angeles ruled the 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams is a rip off of Marvin Gaye’s 1977 song “Got To Give It Up”.  Robin and Pharrell are ordered to pay Marvin Gaye’s family US$7.3 Million.  That is the biggest judgment in a music copyright case.  The guys basically brought this upon themselves – they responded to threats of legal action by the Gaye estate by preemptively suing.  No response from the Thicke camp yet, but Pharrell’s people are hinting at an appeal.