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

IRELAND

Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains to 7-year-old Fionn Teeling Gallagher how astronauts experience problems with the feet in space. Paul Sharp Paul Sharp

• A woman was killed in a car crash in Kerry
• Another woman died after being hit by a car in Westmeath
• A man in his 20s was arrested in connection with a sexual assault on an elderly woman
• A TD defended telling an Irish Water worker he was “elected to break the law”
• Former Waterford Crystal workers agreed a €178 million pension deal
• Gardaí were investigating after a man was hit with a bottle at a Luas stop
• Petrol prices were dropping across Ireland
• Beaumont Hospital limited how many people its emergency department would take

INTERNATIONAL

Giovanna Schettini pretends to take a picture with a camera made entirely of chocolate, one of the many chocolate items on sale at the Chocolate Festival in London. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#LONDON: European flights were impacted by yesterday’s computer failure in England, which shut down London’s airspace.

#LANDSLIDE: Eight people died in a massive mudslide in Indonesia.

#NEAR MISS: Sweden said that a Russian military jet almost hit a passenger plane.

INNOVATION

• IBM is out to change the game. Here’s how. [TheJournal.ie]
• A working Apple-1 computer sold yesterday. For $360,000. [Geek]

PARTING SHOT

Ever hear about the time America almost nuked itself? No? Here, TheJournal.ie‘s Sinead O’Carroll explains.