NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.

Swimmers at the Jeanie Johnston on North Wall Quay in Dublin today at the launch of Dublin City Council Liffey Swim 2015, which will take place this Saturday. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Four students were hospitalised after a school bus overturned.
• One of The Disappeared was laid to rest.
• Gardaí arrested a fourth teenager over a Drogheda factory fire.
• A man died after getting caught in floods on Achill Island.
• A 50% boost to the social welfare Christmas bonus was announced.
• Irish Water said more than half of households are now paying their bills.
• Flooding across the country caused road closures and damage.
• Tickets for U2 sold out in less than half an hour.

WORLD

People stand besides a fence near a temporary holding center for migrants in the early morning at the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke. Matthias Schrader / AP/Press Association Images Matthias Schrader / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#AUSTRALIA: Tony Abbott was ousted by his party as prime minister in a backroom vote.

#EGYPT: 12 tourists, including two Mexicans, were killed in an air strike. [Al Jezerra]

#GERMANY: Border controls are to be temporarily reintroduced.

#HUNGARY: Police have closed the main entry point for refugees.

#SYRIA: US officials claimed that Russia had poisitoned several tanks at an airfield. [Sky News]

#UNITED STATES: A professor was killed in a shooting at Delta State University in Mississippi.

INNOVATION

• A patient received the world’s first 3D printed rib cage. [Geek]
• Could hacked satellites by the next headache facing security experts? [The Daily Dot]
• Here’s how you could have your brain frozen for €90,000. [TechInsider]

PARTING SHOT

This interactive map shows where migrants are coming from and going to. Click here to try it out yourself.

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