Here's what happened today: Thursday

Ian Bailey, Michael O’Reilly’s positive dope test and a London knife attack had people talking today.

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

DK04082016 RedHead 024 Last year's queen Grainne Keena prepares for the Irish Redhead Convention in Crosshaven, Co. Cork from 19-21 August with Michael O'Sullivan of Kanturk.

IRISH

French authorities are going to charge Ian Bailey over the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, according to reports in France.
Irish boxer Michael O’Reilly has failed a doping test ahead of the Olympic games.
No forensic link has been found between convicted paedophile Eamon Cooke to missing schoolboy Philip Cairns.
A man was injured in a shooting in south Dublin.
An Irishman is in hospital after being ‘burnt to the bone‘ after his sleeping bag caught fire in Australia.
Gardaí have said they are not treating the death of a woman in Cavan town as suspicious.
Three churches in Donegal had satanic symbols drawn onto items within them.
A baby spider monkey has been born at Fota Wildlife Park.

WORLD

Knife attack in central London A passerby looks at floral tributes near the scene of a knife rampage in Russell Square, London, after a 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder. Dominic Lipinski / PA Dominic Lipinski / PA / PA

#LONDON: A Norwegian of Somali descent stabbed a US citizen to death and injured five others in a knife rampage in Camden.

#OLYMPICS: Riot police dispersed protesters in Rio with tear gas, before an Olympic torch-bearer dropped his pants before the crowd in protest at the political situation.

#YOU’RE FIRED: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump insists there is great unity in his campaign, despite senior Republican figures defecting to Hillary.

#DRUGS: Heroin is the number one drug for emergency department admissions in Europe, new research has shown.

INNOVATION

Your phone’s battery life is being used to track you online.
Hackers have accessed the messaging accounts of 15 million users of Telegram [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

WATCH: This shocking footage, shot by an embedded western journalist, shows a suicide bomber preparing for his final mission with Al-Qaeda’s local Syrian offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.
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