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IRELAND

Amanda Byram launches the new Brown Thomas collection at the annual ISPCC luncheon today. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

• The Government is to appeal the Apple tax ruling announced by the European Commission.
• The Independent Alliance said they would back the appeal to keep the coalition Government in office.
• Electric Picnic music festival based in Stradbally begins today, featuring 50,000 people and rain.
• Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for help tracing the whereabouts of a 14-year-old girl who went missing four days ago.
• Ireland welcomed a million tourists here in July – the highest figure on record.
• Gardaí are investigating after shots were fired at a house in Dublin.
• Five Pomeranian puppies were rescued at Dublin Port, while the van containing them was seized for having no insurance.
• A person has died after a car crashed into a wall and burst into flames in Waterford.

WORLD

English judokas compete at the 2016 School Games at Loughborough University, in Britain. Rui Vieira / PA Rui Vieira / PA / PA

#SCOTLAND: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said today that Brexit had changed the conditions that existed when Scotland voted against independence in 2014.

#MELANIA TRUMP: Donald Trump’s wife is to sue two media outlets for claiming she worked as an escort in the 1990s.

#US: A teenager with autism has been spared jail after making hoax bomb calls.

#CLINTON: A Romanian hacker who exposed Hillary Clinton’s email server has been jailed for four years.

INNOVATION

• Controversial driving app Uber has won the right to take Transport for London to court, over rules that would require its drivers to pass English tests. [BBC]
• Samsung has suspended sales of Galaxy Note 7, after reports of exploding batteries.

PARTING SHOT

Greystones is getting an immense tree carved “in honour of Apple’s €13 billion“.

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