EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1. #COMMONS VOTE: The UK parliament will decide later today whether to back airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Syria.
2. #CHARITY: Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he plans to give 99% of his Facebook shares - valued at around $45 billion (€42 billion) – to charitable causes.
3. #TROUBLES: PSNI detectives investigating claims that undercover soldiers shot unarmed civilians have appealed for information about 18 Belfast shootings in 1972.
4. #ABUSE: A former priest has been convicted of indecently assaulting a secondary school student in the 1980s, RTÉ reports.
5. #ABORTION DEBATE: Renua senator Paul Bradford has come under fire for saying he believes there are no babies with fatal foetal abnormalities.
6. #OVERCROWDING CRISIS: The Irish Daily Mirror reports that the parents of a six-week-old baby had to wait 11 hours to get her a hospital bed.
7. #BANKRUPTCY: Legislation to reduce the bankruptcy period from three years to one year was approved by the cabinet last night, according to RTÉ.
8. #HIV DETECTION: New figures show a sharp increase in the number of HIV diagnoses in recent months.
9. #WRONG PERSON: US officials have admitted that a man who was imprisoned for 13 years at Guantanamo Bay was arrested partly in a case of mistaken identity.
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