Here’s What Happened Today: Friday

Joan Collins, Thomas Kent, and some American burgers had people talking today.

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

The state funeral of Thomas Kent.

IRELAND

Joan Collins TD received a summons over her role in a water meter protest.
The state funeral of Thomas Kent took place in Cork.
A man was granted refugee status, but his wife and daughter were refused.
Figures revealed that ten senior politicians cost the State more than €700,000 each in pay and expenses since 2011.
Supermacs stepped up their row with McDonalds.
A coach carrying 20 tourists crashed in Donegal.
A woman was awarded €33,000 at the Equality Tribunal after she was sexually harassed by a security guard.
A ‘factual assessment’ of paramilitary organisations in the North was announced. (RTÉ News)
The first ever In-N-Out burgers were sold in Dublin.

WORLD

Croatia Migrants Migrants rest near a train at the railway station in Beli Manastir, near Hungarian border, northeast Croatia. Darko Bandic / AP/Press Association Images Darko Bandic / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#CROATIA: Seven out of the country’s eight border crossings with Serbia over the massive influx of migrants.

#JAPAN: The country is to allow its military to be used overseas. [WSJ]

#SYRIA: US and Russian defence officials held their first talks in more than a year on the civil war. [BBC News]

#TURKEY: The body of another toddler reportedly washed up on a beach.

#VATICAN: Pope Francis is housing a refugee family from Damascus.

#UNITED STATES: Two people have been arrested after a toddler’s body was found in a plastic bag.

INNOVATION

Scientists have created the first super-thin ‘invisibility‘ cloak. (Mashable)
Take a look at the tsunami released by Wednesday’s earthquake in Chile. (ScienceNews)
The creator of the best-selling iPhone ad blocker pulled it from the App Store. (Quartz)

PARTING SHOT

Every model you’ve seen of the solar system is lying to you a little. Here’s how to properly visualise the size of the planets and orbits.

Wylie Overstreet / Vimeo

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