Hello Australia! - China and Taiwan are about to reverse 66 years of animosity - A satellite detects a troubling event before the Russian Plane Crash in Egypt - Australia begins doing right by people who need help - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The presidents of Taiwan and China are to make history and meet in Singapore on Saturday.  China's Xi Jinping and Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou have previously exchanged messages, before they were leaders of their respective countries.  But Presidents of the countries haven't come face-to-face for talks since 1949, when Chinese nationalists fled across the Taiwan Strait.  Officially, Beijing views Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be reunited with the mainland, but ties have warmed since Ma took office in 2008.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is defending his government just before he is to go to London to visit with UK leaders.  Sisi maintains that achieving democracy is still his goal.  Egypt's opposition, such as it is, are upset that London is rolling out the red carpet.  "We have never had such a dismal situation for human rights," says Egyptian author and activist Ahdaf Soueif, who notes that many opposition leaders are jailed.  "It's the worst it's ever been."  

A US military satellite detected a mid-air flash near the Russian MetroJet flight that crashed in Egypt's Sinai desert.  There is no suggestion that it came from a missile, and the flash might indicate an explosion from ob board the ill fated aircraft.  All 224 passengers and crew died in Saturday's crash, most were Russian tourists returning to Saint Petersburg from holiday in Sharm El-Sheikh.  A Russian online newspaper called Lenta reported that bodies from the rear of the plane Airbus A-321 were burned, but aviation investigators have not confirmed that report.

A massive demonstration in Bucharest called on Romania's prime minister to resign over last weekend's nightclub disaster that killed 32 people.  At least 20,000 people gathered in the capital's Victory Square - the seat of government - waving national flags with symbolic holes cut in the middle, and carrying signs demanding PM Victor Ponta's ouster.  He was already under pressure to quit after being charged with fraud, tax evasion and money laundering - Romania's first PM to go on trial while still in office.

Voters in the US state of Ohio soundly rejected a proposal to legalize marijuana by a 2-to-1 margin.  The measure would have given ten well-connected business people - including former pop singer and reality TV star Nick Lachey - a virtual monopoly to grow and sell the wonderful, wonderful plant.  In other words, there were quite a few pro-marijuana voters who decided to put their trust in their local drug dealers rather than Jessica Simpson's ex. 

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton presented visas to the first of 12,000 Syrians who will be granted asylum in Australia.  Four families with twelve children who had been living at the UN Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan are the lucky recipients of the coveted documents.  600,000 Syrians sought refuge from the civil war in the Zaatari camp - but many have fled it because they have no right to work in Lebanon, and because the UN is cutting food aid.