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

A Brazil soccer fan poses for a photo before watching the World Cup semifinal match between Brazil and Germany in Rio de Janeiro today. Source: AP/Press Association Images

IRISH

• All five of the Garth Brooks concerts at Croke Park have been cancelled.
  
• Enda Kenny and Joan Burton are holding further discussions this evening on the Cabinet reshuffle.
• A man has been charged in connection with the disappearance of Adrian Folan.
• The Defence Forces defused a viable explosive device discovered outside a home in Drogheda, Co Louth today.
• UPC says it will not give An Post access to customer information to tackle licence fee evasion.
• Ireland’s five workplace relations agencies are being merged into two.
• The Oireachtas Committee on Finance has strongly criticised the Central Bank’s approach to mortgage arrears.
  
• The Ulster Unionist Party has called for Sinn Féin posters to be immediately removed from 12 July bonfires.
  

Super typhoon Neoguri photographed from the International Space Station as the storm approached Japan. Source: ESA/NASA

WORLD

#GAZA: Israel has approved the call-up of 40,000 reserve forces for a possible assault on the Gaza Strip.

#VATICAN: The Vatican bank has closed thousands of its customer accounts following a corruption inquiry.

#PISTORIUS: The defence for Oscar Pistorious closed today, with final arguments scheduled for early next month.

INNOVATION

• NASA’s robots are being given Google smartphones.
• This new audio device reads out printed text in real-time.

PARTING SHOT

This rendition of the Game of Thrones theme will get your feet tapping [YouTube]