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IRELAND

President Michael D Higgins and Minister Joe McHugh visit the tent of the Nigerian Embassy at Africa Day 2016 at Farmleigh House. Marc O'Sullivan Marc O'Sullivan

• A 29-year-old man was charged over the murder of Michael Barr at the Sunset House in Dublin.
• John McGuinness TD has spoken about a secret meeting with the former Garda commissioner who wanted to talk about whistleblower Maurice McCabe.
  
• A man who was arrested following a fatal road traffic accident late on Friday evening has been released without charge.
• Crowds thronged the streets of Galway to welcome the Connacht Rugby team home.
• Some of the complaints made about taxi drivers have been revealed.
• Plans for health warnings on alcohol products have been thrown into doubt by the EU.
• Renua Ireland’s party name is to be changed after its poor general election showing.
• Warm weather looks set to get even better with temperatures predicted to increase, peaking on Thursday.

WORLD

Participants take rubber inner tractor tubes to the Bistrica river, during Bunar festival in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#REFUGEE CRISIS: The British coast guard rescued 19 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel. It came during a week in which 700 people died in the Mediterranean.

#WILD ANIMALS: Workers at Cincinnati Zoo shot and killed a gorilla after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosure.

#WHITEWASHING: A Chinese firm has issued an apology following a TV ad that’s been described as the ‘most racist ever’.

INNOVATION

• GPS tracking on your iPhone keeps track of where you’ve been. Here’s how to shut it off.
  

PARTING SHOT

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Quite simply one of the most original marriage proposals you’ll see.

Tech wizard Shane Birkinbine employed Super Mario Maker to customise a game level, spelling out a marriage proposal to his girlfriend.

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