A Palestinian student walks in front of a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Test results released today showed that Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium when he died in 2004. Pic: Bernat Armangue/AP Images.

IRISH

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny insisted patient safety is an ‘absolute priority‘ when questioned about a letter sent by hospital chiefs warning about cuts to the health service.
• Despite rejecting a new deal, SIPTU Dublin Bus drivers have voted against industrial action.
• Sinn Féin revealed that the party was anonymously given new Anglo Tapes which they have passed onto gardaí.
• Irish viewers are to get a new TV station in 2015, ‘UTV Ireland’.
• Australian media have named the woman found outside the GPO as 25-year-old Samantha Azzopardi.
• Irish soldiers in Syria’s Golan Heights region were caught in the crossfire of a gun battle this morning.
• 419 planned searches, 89 arrests and five European arrest warrants. Gardaí’s Operation Wireless over the past 24 hours.
• Secondary students miss an average of 13 days of school every year according to a report.
• Nine businesses were closed in October for breaches of food safety rules. All but three have had the orders lifted since.
• One million Irish people now have now joined recruitment social network LinkedIn. 10 per cent live abroad however.

WORLD

#MIDDLE-EAST: Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium according to Swiss scientists who have carried out tests on his body.

#WINNING: Martin Walsh, the son of Irish emigrants who left Connemara in the 1950s, has been elected mayor of Boston.

#PUSSY RIOT: Jailed member of the Russian protest group Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who was feared missing, is on her way to a new penal colony in Siberia according to her husband.

INNOVATION

• In a landmark ruling, a French court today Google to prevent its search engine from providing links to images of a sadomasochistic orgy involving former Formula One boss Max Mosley.
• You may have noticed a heap of changes to Twitter over the past week, but did the redesign work?  [Buzzfeed]

PARTING SHOT

Tom McDermott sent us in this photo of his half-lab, half-retriever Tayto at sunset. Both he and the sky look wonderful, we think so anyway.