EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #BELOVED: Fans have been gathering in cities across America to pay tribute and mourn the loss of Prince Rogers Nelson, one of the greatest musical talents the modern world has seen.

2. #IRISH WATER: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are due to resume talks on the facilitation of a minority Government, it’s understood that the talks will centre on water charges.

3. #WATERFORD: A man threatened to throw his partner out of the family home if she refused to have sex with their son, it has been alleged at a child sex abuse trial.

4. #MIND THE GAP: Irish women have closed the pay gap in many managerial positions, but are still paid 14.4% less than men across the board.

5. #BRAZIL: A seaside section of an elevated bicycle path built as part of improvements for the Rio Olympics collapsed, killing two people, after a powerful wave crashed into it yesterday.

6. #KIDNAPPED: North Korea wants the South to prove it didn’t kidnap 12 women. The North insists they were tricked into defecting by South Korean spies who effectively “kidnapped” them.

7. #AROUND THE WORLD: Irish TV is going global after a deal with one of the world’s biggest companies.

8. #CENSUS 2016: A company which has links to the interrogations at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison has been given a contract to work on this weekend’s census.

9. #SCREENS: First Dates Ireland finally hit Irish screens last night and people were devastated when a man from Kildare turned down a girl.