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

IRELAND

Former US president Bill Clinton with Denis O'Brien earlier this year AP Photo / Dieu Nalio Chery AP Photo / Dieu Nalio Chery / Dieu Nalio Chery

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s refusal to intervene in the Denis O’Brien-Dáil privilege controversy was described as a “grave threat to democracy”.
• Alan Kelly wants to bring in new measures that sound a lot like rent controls – but he prefers the term “rent certainty”.
• There was plenty of rain – but also plenty of smiles – as 37,000 people ran the Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin.
• The rotten weather also forced Patti Smith’s much-awaited outdoor gig indoors.
• The Garda Commissioner is facing increasing pressure to reopen key Dublin garda station ‘Fort Apache’.
• Laws making it illegal to pay for sex began in Northern Ireland – and there are fears they will make the Republic more attractive to traffickers.
• The marriage referendum got the John Oliver treatment on his show Last Week Tonight.
• Secret police files of Republic activity in Dublin from the lead-up to the 1916 Rising have been released online.

WORLD

AP Photo / Karel Navarro AP Photo / Karel Navarro / Karel Navarro

#OVEREXCITED: One man was told to “put his jeans on” after he got carried away waiting to start the World Naked Bike Ride in the UK.

#HEADSCARF: America’s highest court sided with a Muslim girl denied an Abercrombie ‘model’ job because of her attire.

#DEBUT: Caitlyn Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner, made her first appearance on the cover of Vanity Fair.

#MALAYSIA: Christoph Mueller, the man dubbed ‘The Terminator’ during his time at Aer Lingus, is axeing 6,000 staff at Malaysian Airlines.

#BANGLADESH: The owners of the clothing factory that collapsed in 2013 killing more than 1,100 people are among 41 people charged with murder over the disaster.

#RACIAL PROFILING: Black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed by police than white people. [Guardian]

INNOVATION

• How often do Google staff have to pay for their lunch? Not very, apparently.
• Larry Ellison, the third-richest man in the US, went from a college dropout to selling software to the CIA.
• A British-led research team has made a ‘spectacular’ breakthrough in cancer treatment.
• A robotics company is working on an Android-based device that can communicate naturally with humans – even cracking bad jokes. [TechCrunch]

PARTING SHOT

Ever wondered what it would be like working in America’s most haunted bar? For starters, the jukebox has a bad habit of choosing its own songs based on whatever you’re talking about. [Vice]

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