NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- A man was arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of another man at a halting site in Finglas
- Thousands of homes were left without power amid thunderstorms, this afternoon
- An orange alert for thunderstorms was in place all day for much of Connacht, the North-West, the border counties, Midlands, and parts of Leinster
- A Lufthansa flight was diverted to Dublin after a medical emergency on board, but had to return to Germany due to a lack of hotel rooms in the capital
- Two men aged in their 30s and 70s were killed in separate collisions in Co Cork and Co Tipperary
- Gardaí appealed for help in finding 56-year-old Bridget Robinson, who has been missing from Dooradoyle, Co Limerick since Friday
- A man in his 20s faced criticism for climbing the Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, after being photographed last night.
INTERNATIONAL
#PLOT: A French man planning to attack several targets during Euro 2016 was arrested in Ukraine with an arsenal of weaponry and explosives
#RICHARD HUCKLE: A British paedophile was given 22 life sentences for preying upon impoverished children in Malaysia
#SCHOOL TRIP: Six children and eight adults were killed after a school bus plunged into a canal in Turkey
#HARAMBE: The parents of a boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure at Cincinnati zoo, leading to the fatal shooting of a gorilla, will not face charges
#HACKED: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had several of his social media accounts temporarily compromised.
INNOVATION
- Tetris, the game that made the Game Boy a global success, turned 32 years old. [TheJournal.ie]
- DisplayLink has developed a chip that can power four 4k Ultra HD screens at the same time. File under “nice to have”. [The Verge]
PARTING SHOT
On last night’s episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver revealed he had bought $15 million worth of medical debt. Then, he gave it away live on air.
Source: LastWeekTonight/YouTube
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