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

The world's largest jet made a fuelling stop at Shannon Airport. Sean Curtin Sean Curtin

IRELAND

• TD Terence Flanagan broke his silence about his nightmare RTÉ interview
• The world’s largest jet arrived in Shannon
• Mandate says it’s compiling a dossier of incidents of victimisation at Dunnes Stores
• A doctors’ group described the free GP care for under-sixes as “medical apartheid”
• A woman was arrested after a man was stabbed to death in Dublin
• A HUGE jet arrived at Shannon Airport
• A man and woman were arrested after a man’s body was found in a car boot
• Four people died in separate road crashes in the space of a day

INTERNATIONAL

Blair Drummond Safari Park keeper Coni McEwan holding a two week old Humboldt penguin chick, which is the park's first Humboldt penguin chick in two years. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GERMANY A 65-year-old mum of 13 is expecting quadruplets

#USA The world waited for Hillary Clinton to announce whether she is to run for the US presidency

#SCOTLAND A photographer at Andy Murray’s wedding fell and died after a suspected heart attack

#TENNESSEE Rapper Nelly was arrested on drugs charges after a state trooper smelled marijuana on his bus

#IRAQ Islamic State filmed themselves destroying an ancient city

#REUNION ISLAND A young teenage boy died in a horrific shark attack

INNOVATION

• Yes, giving up Facebook IS hard. Trust us. [TheJournal.ie]
• What happens if an astronaut dies in space? This. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

This little abode is called the ‘Up House’ – but it’s no laughing matter as to why this tiny home is sandwiched between huge buildings. [New York Times]

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