EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of all the day’s main news as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed.

• The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has been charged with attempted rape as well as two other offences after he was arrested in New York yesterday in connection with the violent sexual assault of a hotel maid in the US city. He denies the charges.
• A 22-year-old man has been charged in relation to an incident on board a Ryanair flight from Liverpool to Dublin last night. The man was charged by gardaí who also arrested a man in his 50s who was later released.
• An eight-year-old girl has tragically died after an accident on a bouncy castle in Waterford yesterday evening. The girl is believed to have been celebrating her First Holy Communion when she fell out of the inflatable castle and sustained serious head injuries.
• A five-year-old boy is seriously injured after being hit by a car in Wexford earlier today. He is being treated for his injuries at a hospital in Dublin.
• At least 12 people are believed to have died after Israeli military clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders including the frontier with Syria. Palestinians had been commemorating the “nakba,” or “catastrophe,” the term they use to describe their defeat and displacement in the war at the time of Israel’s founding in 1948.
• Voters in Switzerland have unanimously rejected proposals to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for non residents in the state of Zurich. We’ve been asking is it right for the Swiss to allow foreigners to travel there in order to carry out assisted suicide?
• Six people have died, including three children, after a tragic apartment fire in a suburb of Chicago in the US in the early hours of this morning. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
• The Minister for Education has said the government will look at funding for fee-paying schools in Ireland after new figures emerged detailing the millions that the State gives to some of the wealthiest schools in the country.
• Two viable improvised explosive devices or IEDs were found in Limerick and Dublin over night. Army bomb disposal teams from the Irish Defence Forces were able to make safe both devices.
• Disappointment for Jedward last night in Dusseldorf but as they arrived back in Dublin today it was clear that Ireland is very proud of the brothers Grimes. Check out their performance last night and that of the winning country Azerbaijan.
• The latest iPhone gossip centres on what it might be called with the latest reports indicating that the next version of Apple’s hi-tech phone will be an ‘iPhone 4S’ and not the more revolutionary sounding ‘iPhone 5′.
• Anticipation is building ahead of the historic visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland on Tuesday with Taoiseach Enda Kenny appearing on British television this morning to tell everyone how brilliant it’s going to be. Eleanor Fitzsimons has been asking: What have the Brits ever done for us?

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore makes a speech at the Annual James Connolly Commemoration at Arbour Hill Military Cemetery in Dublin earlier today (Photo: Niall Carson/Press Association)

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