Hello, Australia!  Australia will take on Russia at the UN Security Council - Is Bronwyn Bishop considering a change of position? - Brazil's power company corruption scandal crosses political lines -  A Panda birthday and more in your CareerSpot News Briefs:

Russia is expected to wield its veto power when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and her counterparts from The Netherlands and Ukraine go to the UN Security Council later on Wednesday with a resolution to set up an international criminal court to prosecute those responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine a year ago.  Russia opposes the Western resolution, but offered its own alternative that demanded justice for those responsible for the crash without calling for a tribunal.  The conventional among the Western powers is that Ukrainian rebelsshot down MH17 using a missile supplied by backers in the Kremlin.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is also suggesting the Speaker Bronwyn Bishop is "considering her position" in the two weeks leading up to the next sitting of parliament.  Labor is demanding that Bronwynstep down while she's being investigated by the Department of Finance for questionable use of entitlements.  The latest point of contention is a $288 travel allowance claim from 2007 that Bronwyn submitted for the day she attended the wedding of Queensland Liberal MP Teresa Gambaro.  Past red flags popped up over her expensive livery rides to Opera and a $5,000 helicopter trip between Melbourne and Geelong - about an hour by car.

The Child Abuse Squad in WA is levelling more than 500 charges of child abuse against eight men in the abuse of a 13 year old girl.  Details are to be released later, and it is understood the charges involves sexual offenses.

A fire in a furniture factory north of the Egyptian capital Cairo killed more than 25 people, and left 22 in hospital to be treated for burnsor smoke inhalation.  Investigators believea cannister of petrol somehow ignited. The factory did not have the proper safety permits, according to inspectors.

Nigeria's army says it freed some 30 captives of Boko Haram, including 21 children and seven women. This happened in the town of Dikwa in Borno state, the Islamist insurgent group's home turf.  There's no indication that any of these former prisoners are the Chibok girls, the more than 200 teens kidnapped from their boarding school last year.   Earlier in Borno, eleven Boko Haram and three civilian militia members were killed in clashes. 

A temple in southern Nepal is giving up animal sacrifices after years of outcry from animal rights activists and pressure from India.  India's Humane Society International says that at one point, as many as 500,000 buffalos, goats, chickens, and other animals were killed in the Gadhimai temple festival about 90 miles south of Kathmandu for the festival that takes place every five years.  But that dropped sharply iafter 2009 when India banned taking animals cross-border for the festival.  Now the temple has seen the light, and no animals need die.

Hong Kong's Giant Panda Jia Jia is 37 years old, the oldest in captivity.  Krasnoyarsk, Russia's zoo has some new Penguins.

Brazil arrested the chief of its nuclear power company in the investigation of corruption at the highest levels.  Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva headed Eletronuclear, part of the state-run energy company Petrobras from where the corruption investigation originated.  Prosecutors say Pinheiro da Silva took more than US $1.3 million in bribes, partially accounting for the ballooning price tag for the country's third nuclear power plant.  He's not a member of the ruling leftist party of President Dilma Rousseff and her mentor and predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who elevated Pineiro to the head of the nuclear power company, but rather came up as astrong nationalist during the military dictatorship of the 1970s and '80s.  Pinheiro was known for spearheading a clandestine program to build nuclear submarines for the Brazilian navy.