EVERY EVENING,TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of the day’s main stories – plus any bits and pieces you may have missed.

• A man has been killed in a two-car collision in Co. Waterford this afternoon.  Seven people have now died on the country’s roads over the Christmas period.
• Betfair has said that, perhaps unsurprisingly, it won’t be paying out €25 million on a race at Leopardstown today. The betting firm has blamed an ‘obvious technical fault’ as the reason it voided the bets in one of its horse racing markets.
• It was a bad day for stock markets in Europe, with all signs suggesting that banks are still jittery about loaning money to each other.
• The dramatic increase in the number of reports of suspected social welfare fraud is because of the “strained financial situation” the country is in, according to Barry Cowen, the Fianna Fáil spokesperson for social protection.
• Poor Jedward. The Guardian ran an editorial today praising the Dublin twins for keeping the nation’s spirits high during the recession – but Twitter folk weren’t impressed at all with the newspaper’s controversial stance on the Grimes brothers.
• Here’s a photo from the funeral of Kim Jong-Il which took place in North Korea today. We’ve put together a list of the ten strangest photos from the funeral of the former leader here.

(Image: AP Photo/Kyodo News)

• A man has been hospitalised after he was shot outside his home in Kildare. The 36-year-old is being treated in Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown after he was shot in the leg
• Met Eireann have issued a gale warning saying that winds of between 100 and 130 kph are expected to hit the country.
• Want to guess where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has gone on holidays? Clue: it’s one of the few countries in the world where Facebook is banned…
• There was panda-monium today (sorry) as the BBC chose a panda as one of its women faces of 2011. The BBC website chose Tian Tian, the panda who recently arrived at Edinburgh Zoo, as one of its Faces of the Year 2011.
• Gardaí are looking for witnesses to a serious crash in Ballyfermot on Christmas Day to come forward.
• The trial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resumed today in Cairo.  He is charged with complicity in the killings of more than 800 protesters and could face the death penalty if convicted.
• Our favourite video of the day is this old newsreel clip from 1938 about New York: The Wonder City (yes, it’s actually called that). Nostalgia-tastic:

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