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The gravity-defying Serena Williams celebrates several feet in the air after she won her third round match at Wimbledon today. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
THESE ARE THE things you need to know as we round off the day in three easy steps:
THINGS WE LEARNED
#ULSTER BANK: There’s still no end in sight for customers of Ulster Bank as staff continue to struggle to clear the backlog of payments caused by a technical problem ten days ago, with many branches around the country opening today to deal with the issue. Ulster Bank has refused to say whether CEO Jim Browne will give up this year’s bonus or not. We can guess how customers feel about that one.
#EURO 2012: Ireland’s fans are to receive a ‘special award’ from UEFA for their behaviour and attitude during the European Championships. The governing body of football in Europe subtly side-stepped how Ireland was statistically the worst team at Euro 2012 and instead focused on the single positive thing about Ireland’s participation in the tournament. Thanks, guys.
#GOING DOWN: Bad news for anyone who was hoping to take artily-tinged photographs of their food today: Instagram has been down since last night after violent storms in the US caused a power outage to the severs which power the popular app. Pinterest and Netflix were also briefly down but are fixed already.
#ART ATTACK: Gardaí are continuing to question a man over the incident in the National Gallery yesterday in which an 1874 painting by Monet was seriously damaged. The National Gallery tweeter earlier that staff were “very touched” by the “many lovely messages of concern” they had received. Aw.
#DISCOVERY: They could just be teasing us, but CERN has been dropping hints that it has made some big discoveries in its quest to find out whether the Higgs boson exists.
#EXPLAINER: They’ve been dominating the news headlines for oh, about two years now, but what exactly are the bond markets? We’ve put together this useful explainer with everything you could ever have wanted to know but were too afraid to ask about bond markets.
THINGS WE LOVED
THINGS WE SHARED
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