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

 IRISH

One of the entries of this year's Wiki Loves Monuments photography competition, which accepts it's last submission next Friday Source: Wiki Loves Monuments

• A three-year-old boy is in critical condition after falling from an apartment block in Co Offaly this morning.
• A 13-year-old boy has described his harrowing experience at the hands of his father, who has been convicted of imprisoning him in a box and raping him repeatedly.
• A couple and their two children will be put out of their Co Kildare home by bailiffs next Friday after failing to pay a €3 million bank debt.
• It has been claimed that Michelin star restaurants will leave Ireland if mandatory calorie counts are introduced on menus.
• A man from Co Kildare has appealed for a woman who saved his wife and baby daughter’s lives from drowning to make contact with his family.
• Tributes are being paid to the paramedics who risked their lives to save the life of a man trapped in a burning ambulance in Naas yesterday.
• The first episode of Gogglebox Ireland aired on TV3 last night, and twin farmers Fergal and Neal Tully from Cavan stole the show.

INTERNATIONAL

Police confront protesters blocking a motorway in Charlotte Source: Gerry Broome

#AMERICA: A video of a deadly encounter between Charlotte police and a black man shows his wife telling officers he is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot.

#INDIA: The mother of murdered British 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling has called for “someone to be held accountable” after two men charged with her daughter’s murder were acquitted.

#LOS ANGELES: The FBI has confirmed that it has opened an investigation regarding “an aircraft carrying Mr Brad Pitt and his children”.

INNOVATION

• After Yahoo admitted that half a billion of its users were hacked, here’s advice from a cyber security website on what you should do if you have a Yahoo account.
• As Twitter continues to struggle with attracting and retaining users, two of the biggest tech giants are looking to buy the social media company.

PARTING SHOT

If you haven’t seen the latest episode of Between Two Ferns, where Zach Galifianakis sends a steady stream of hilarious questions Hillary Clinton’s way, take 5 minutes and 47 seconds out of your day to watch it now:

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