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IRISH

Pippa O'Connor poses for photos as part of Centra's Live Well initiative. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A man who twice raped a 73-year-old woman after breaking into her home and leaving her “waiting for death” was jailed for 13 years.
• A man was jailed for 10 years for threatening, assaulting and raping his wife as their marriage was breaking down in 2014.
• A woman and her son were killed after their car struck a tree in Co Galway last night.
• The High Court approved an arrangement about the payment of compensation to several bankrupt people in respect of tracker mortgages they had held with Permanent TSB.
• A gym in Coolock, Dublin, offered members refunds after the building was damaged in an arson attack today.
• A 28-year-old man was arrested in Derry as part of an investigation into human trafficking.
• A 25-year-old woman, who claimed she broke her left little finger and lost her nail when a “heavy” store door slammed on her hand, lost a €60,000 damages claim in the Circuit Civil Court.
• A mural reading ‘Repeal the 8th’ was removed from the front wall of the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.
• A motorway network running across the island of Ireland could be built for €15 billion, or less than €100 per worker each year in borrowings, it was claimed.
• More than half of Irish houses are bought with cash – and big international funds are cleaning up.

WORLD

Alvin Peters from Panama City arriving at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Matt Rourke / PA Images Matt Rourke / PA Images / PA Images

#JAPAN: Reports say at least 15 people have been killed and several more injured in a knife attack on a centre for people with disabilities.

#US: Two people were killed and several more injured in a Florida nightclub shooting.

#GERMANY: A Syrian asylum seeker who blew himself up outside a German music festival had made a video pledging allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group.

#UK: A man accused of murdering four men in east London was also charged with poisoning, rape and sexual assault.

#SPAIN: A woman with the Zika virus gave birth to a baby with the brain-damaging disorder microcephaly in Barcelona.

INNOVATION

• Nintendo’s stock value has plummeted after investors realised the company would not earn as much revenue from Pokémon Go as expected.
• Solar Impulse 2 is approaching the end of its epic bid to become the first solar-powered airplane to circle the globe.
  

PARTING SHOT

Is it a road? Is it a bridge? It’s probably neither. Norway is building the world’s first ‘floating’ underwater tunnels to keep traffic down on the nation’s busy ferry routes.

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