WHAT’S THE STORY?

1. #ATTACK: A decapitated body was found as a man carrying an Islamist flag, claiming to be from Islamic State, attacked a French factory.

2. #THE DISAPPEARED: It will take ‘some weeks’ to identify the remains of two bodies found at a site in Co Meath yesterday.

3. #BERKELEY: The Office of the District Attorney for Berkeley has announced a criminal investigation into the balcony collapse that killed six Irish students.

4. #RIP: Patrick Macnee, the British-born actor best known as dapper secret agent John Steed in The Avengers, has died.

5. #GO KATIE: Katie Taylor has moved one step closer to adding European Games gold to her glittering collection as she reached the her boxing final in Baku.

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