Updated 22:55

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

The sedimentation tanks at the Ballymore Eustace water treatment plant (Image: Brian Lawless/PA).

IRISH

• Those hit by nightly restrictions may face cloudy water when the supply comes back on tomorrow morning.
• Gardaí want to issue a photo of the girl found outside the GPO three weeks ago. [RTÉ]
• A woman has been arrested after the discovery of the body of another woman in Dublin.
• Unemployment fell to 13.2 per cent last month.
• Danske Bank Ireland is to close with the loss of 150 jobs.
• The master of the Rotunda warned of “unsustainable” levels of activity at the hospital.
• We’ll have 305 new garda vehicles on the roads by the end of the year.
• The Universal Social Charge will collect over €4 billion next year.
• Irish personalities opened up about their battles with depression.
• The search for a missing walker in Mayo has been suspended for the second night.
• Yet another Labour councillor has resigned from the party.

WORLD

Men cover the bodies of migrants who died of thirst after the truck they were travelling in broke down in the Sahara Desert (Image: Almoustapha Alhacen/AP).

#NIGER: 87 people, including 48 children have died of thirst in the desert. [AFP]

#SYRIA: A watchdog said the country has destroyed all of its chemical weapons. [BBC]

#RUSSIA: Edward Snowden has bagged himself  a new job. [Associated Press]

#NEWS OF THE WORLD: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson had a six-year affair. [The Guardian]

INNOVATION

• Google finally revealed its new Nexus 5 and thanks to all the leaks recently, there are very few surprises. [Gizmodo]
• Swedish children think their parents spend too much time staring at their phones. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer spotted this screaming witch in space.

(Image: NASA)

First published 21:00.

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