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

The scene at Clonmel water charge protests Paddy Healy Paddy Healy

IRISH

• A woman appeared in court charged with the murder of two-year-old Muhammad Hassan Khan
• Large crowds were reported at some of the anti-water charges protests around the country
• A man is to appear in court charged over the Waterford petrol bomb attack
• A man was charged over the fatal stabbing of another man in Santry
• A woman was punched during a carjacking at gunpoint
• Some convicted migrants may have been forced to commit crimes by human traffickers, a new report says
• The Taoiseach said he would meet with Maíria Cahill, and Mary Lou McDonald said that it is “reprehensible” if the IRA carried out its own investigations into sexual abuse claims
• A teenager was killed after a car hit a barrier in Co Longford

INTERNATIONAL

Pro-democracy protesters guard a makeshift barricade in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong Wally Santana Wally Santana

#HONG KONG Protesters in Hong Kong re-took their protest camp, amid clashes with riot police

#EBOLA Oxfam warned that Ebola could be the humanitarian disaster of our generation

#FERGUSON The police officer who shot teenager Michael Brown said he “feared for his life”

#SOUTH KOREA A concert planner was found dead after a tragic accident at a concert that cost 16 lives

#KOBANE The signs from Syria are “encouraging” as the battle against Islamic State rages

INNOVATION

• Yes, Twitter is adding tweets into your timeline… here’s why. [The Guardian]
• Meet the Irish YouTuber who went from 2,500 to 1.5 MILLION subscribers in the space of one year.

PARTING SHOT

This story of the last days of a dog, and the impact he had on his owner, is just beautiful. Sniff. [Bored Panda]

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