A baby pygmy hippopotamus calf with its mother, Sirana, at Bristol Zoo in the UK today Ben Birchall / PA Ben Birchall / PA / PA

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

IRELAND

The truck that overturned today in Dublin's Port Tunnel An Garda Síochána / Twitter An Garda Síochána / Twitter / Twitter

• It has been unbelievably cold all day, and now there’s a weather warning in place
• The Port Tunnel in Dublin was closed causing traffic chaos after a truck overturned in one of the tunnels
• Landmark Dublin hotel Jury’s is getting a rebrand, and a great big extension
• Two men have been killed in separate road accidents in Monaghan and Louth
• Here’s what the IFA’s top executive Pat Smith was being paid before he resigned yesterday
• There’s 625 jobs on the way in Co Cork, and another 50 in Dublin
• Fianna Fáil members have expressed a lack of confidence in their own candidate for Longford, Connie Gerety Quinn
• Anti Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy has labelled as ‘outrageous’ the District Court’s decision to uphold a ban on his party from collecting door-to-door
• Former billionaire Tony O’Reilly is going bankrupt in the Bahamas
• Beaumont Hospital in Dublin has apologised for ‘failing to protect the dignity’ of Gerry Feeney, who was pictured in a dishevelled state on a ward there
• A man accused of killing a ‘mentally challenged’ 63-year-old has made a ‘breath-taking’ attempt to withdraw his guilty plea
• Irish Water workers may go on strike over a planned reduction in frontline numbers
• A 27-year-old man has died after a violent assault in Navan
• The driver of a car which broke a red light and hit a 6-year-old girl has been jailed for 12 months

INTERNATIONAL

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#MALI: An Al-Qaeda-affiliated group is reportedly claiming responsibility for a hotel siege in the city of Bamako that left at least 27 people dead

#LEEDS: An investigation is under way after a transgender woman was found dead in an all-male prison

#LONDON: Police in the English capital have apologised to women who were deceived into sexual relationships with undercover officers

#US: Ben Carson, the Republican presidential hopeful, has compared Syrian refugees to rabid dogs

INNOVATION

• Facebook has put in place a tool to put an end to the misery that is constantly seeing what your ex is up to (TheJournal.ie)
• With Christmas fast approaching, here’s all you need to know before shopping online (TheJournal.ie)

PARTING SHOT

Some movie franchise, Star Wars we think it’s called, has a new episode hitting cinemas on 18 December. It’s supposed to be good.

Anyway, in advance of that these intrepid souls have recreated one of the trailers for The Force Awakens on a micro-budget. And it’s superb. Enjoy.