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

IRELAND

Foreign Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at Government Building today. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A schoolgirl thought she was going to be raped after she was forced into a car and driven away at speed, the Dublin Children’s Court was told.
• Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald called on Arlene Foster to step aside as Northern Ireland’s First Minister.
• Homelessness activism group Home Sweet Home claimed some former residents of Apollo House have returned to the building because of drug use and a lack of food at new accommodation offered to them.
• An armed man robbed Celbridge Credit Union.
• Gardaí in Dublin sought the public’s help finding a teenage girl who has been missing since yesterday.
• A Lithuanian man was extradited from the North to face Monaghan rape charges.
• Met Éireann issued a snow-ice warning for 20 counties and a wind warning for four counties.

WORLD

Altocumulus clouds above St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, England Owen Humphreys / PA Wire/PA Images Owen Humphreys / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#WASHINGTON: Jeff Sessions said he’d be a fair Attorney General and defy Donald Trump if necessary, when questioned by US senators.

#KENT: A 15-year-old girl was arrested following the death of a seven-year-old girl.

#NORWAY: Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute at the opening of an appeal case about his prison conditions.

#UK: Jeremy Corbyn called for a cap on wages, particularly the “ridiculous” salaries of footballers and CEOs.

PARTING SHOT

Check out this great timelapse footage of the night sky Madeline Weber captured in Kerry last week:

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