Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

Crunch election talks, Belfast stabbings and Trump takes on Time.

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

IRELAND

DUBLIN CITY SCENES 758A0227_90530334 Brown Thomas concierges John Cunningham and Ciaran Bass on Dublin's Grafton Street Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin held crunch talks as both say they wish to avert a general election.
A new opinion poll which showed FG dropping and FF catching may influence their discussions.
The work of the Eighth Amendment Committee may hinge on the talks as well.
A 20-year-old woman was arrested and later released after three men were stabbed in Belfast.
Tributes were paid after the death of much-loved Riordans’ star Biddy White Lennon.
An appeal was launched to help to find a 71-year-old man missing from a Dublin care home.
Over 200 inspections at homeless hotels and B&Bs have been carried out following complaints.

WORLD

Autumn weather Saturday Nov 25th 2017 Sheep at sunrise in a snow-covered field near Ribblehead in the Yorkshire Dales, UK. Danny Lawson / PA Images Danny Lawson / PA Images / PA Images

#OXFORD CIRCUS: Two men handed themselves into police following an altercation that led to the closure of two Tube stations and mass panic in central London last night.

#TEXAS: A woman who was charged with a plot to assassinate Barack Obama with a homemade bomb was caught because of hair from her cats.

#POTY: Time Magazine has denied a claim from US President Donald Trump that he has refused the title of 2017 Person of the Year.

PARTING SHOT

Fionamania has swept the U.S. This baby hippo has spawned a frenzy that has people flying from all over to see her. https://t.co/231sLe07zg
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 25, 2017

The New York Times / Twitter

The New York Times goes to meet Fiona, Cincinnati Zoo’s famous hippo that has become a social media star and has people flying in from all over the world.

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