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Here's What Happened Today: Friday

A shocking day in France, mother-and-baby home inquiry, and bad weather had everyone talking today.

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

IRISH

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INTERNATIONAL

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#FRANCE Today has been a shocking for France – we’ve been covering the two hostage situations, and the killings of the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings in our liveblog. 

#SAUDI ARABIA A blogger received the first 50 of 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam.

#AUSTRIA A skier who died in Austria 86 years ago was finally identified

#RUSSIA Russia was condemned for banning transsexual people and transvestites from driving 

#AUSTRALIA Parts of Melbourne Airport were evacuated after a security alert directed at airline Tigerair

INNOVATION

  • Here are the new products from the tech conference in Las Vegas that you might be seeing on shelves soon. [The Guardian]
  • How much would you pay for a rare NES game? Er, how about $90k? [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Hamburg has a very long highway (Autobahn 7, to give it its correct name) running straight through it. Now there are plans to cover it with parks, allowing the cars to run beneath them. Nice. [Vox]

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