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

Students attending their graduation ceremony at Griffith College Dublin today. (Pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

IRISH

• Ireland will exit the bailout programme next month without a precautionary credit line. Finance Minister Michael Noonan said it was “the right time” to do so.
• Two Irishmen have been arrested in connection with a Toronto-based investigation into the making and selling of child pornography.
• Nine children who were in care or ‘known to the HSE’ died by suicide last year. A total of 23 children and young people who were in care, aftercare or known to the HSE died in 2012.
• The three Halawa sisters from Dublin who have been detained in Egypt since 17 August have been released following intervention from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
• A man in his 20s has been arrested after the body of a man was found dead at a house in Skerries this evening.
• Junior doctors in the IMO have voted to accept proposals aimed at settling the dispute with the HSE over working hours.
• Former senior Anglo Irish Bank official Tiarnan O’Mahoney appeared in court charged with concealing a bank account and obstructing a Revenue officials. [RTE]
• A man was stabbed outside a Dublin pub this afternoon by two men who approached and fled by motorcycle.
• Ryanair is to create more than 300 jobs in Ireland by adding nine new routes out of Dublin airport.
• The British Army allegedly ran a secret undercover unit of plain-clothed soldiers in Belfast during ‘The Troubles’ according to a new BBC documentary.

WORLD

#CHILD PORN: Over 300 people have been arrested and almost 400 children rescued in a global child pornography investigation based out of Toronto.

#TYPHOON HAIYAN: The US has said relief channels are belatedly opening up to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, as the UN admits it had not acted quickly enough to help survivors.

#AIRPLANE MODE: The EU’s aviation safety body is expected to publish guidelines allowing passengers in Europe to use their smartphones and tablets during takeoff and landing.

#BOSTON: Former crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger has been sentenced to life in prison for a string of murders in the 1970s and ’80s.

INNOVATION

• Simple question: Why did Snapchat turn down Facebook’s $3 billion offer?
• A new seat design on airplanes called ‘Morph’ allows the size and shape of the seats to change according to the needs of individual passengers.

PARTING SHOT

(Pic: Bezbojnicul)

How do you say beer in different languages across Europe? These etymology maps published by The Guardian today show how languages can be both so different and so similar. The maps appear to have been originally posted by Reddit user Bezbojnicul.

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