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

IRELAND

This image of Lambay Island off the coast of Malahide in Co Dublin perfectly captures the mixed weather we're experiencing at the moment. Fergal Griffin Fergal Griffin

• Two men died in a house fire in Macroom, Co Cork
• Gerry Adams apologised for using a racial slur in a tweet about the film Django Unchained
• Talks continued, but Independent TDs warned that a government may not be formed this week
• Two men appeared in court over a post office raid involving a hammer in Co Carlow
• Gardaí appealed for help in finding missing Dublin woman Katherine Sweeney
• The windscreen of a PSNI patrol car was smashed in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim
• Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy was widely-praised for writing publicly about his own struggles with mental health

INTERNATIONAL

Onlookers wearing US and Cuban flags await the arrival of the Adonia in Havana today - the first American cruise ship to travel to Cuba in 40 years. Associated Press Associated Press

#LEAKS: Greenpeace released secret files on the TTIP trade agreement between the US and EU, calling it a “huge transfer of power from people to big business”

#HAVANA BALL: An American cruise ship arrived in Cuba for the first time in 40 years

#IT WAS ME: Australian academic and entrepreneur Craig Wright appeared to reveal himself as the inventor of the digital currency Bitcoin

#ROBUST EXCHANGE: Turkey’s parliament erupted into violence for the third time in just a week

INNOVATION

• Here’s a handy guide for how to make your iPhone read out text for you. [TheJournal.ie]
• Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have invented a robotic x-ray machine to make life easier for racehorses, and maybe eventually, humans. [Gizmodo]

PARTING SHOT

French inventor Franky Zapata just set a new Guinness World Record after flying his hoverboard for 2,252 metres.

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