Indian bodybuilders perform before Surya Namaskar or Sun salutation during a function to mark 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

HERE ARE THE things we learned, loved and shared today.

THINGS WE LEARNED:

#MURDER: A murder investigation is underway in Co Cork after a post-mortem examination showed that a woman who was thought to have died in a house fire had actually “died in violent circumstances”. Olivia Dunlea, 36, was found in the house at Passage West after the emergency services were called in the early hours of Sunday morning.

#PROMISSORY NOTES: The President of the European Central Bank (ECB) has told MEPs the institution has not yet considered whether the promissory note arrangements between the Central Bank of Ireland and the Irish government are in breach of European law. Appraisals are usually carried out when the ECB’s annual report is compiled in spring each year, which could indicate that no authoritative test will be undertaken for another 12 months.

#JOBS: Drugs company GlaxoSmithKline has announced it is to close a unit in Cork, with the loss of 94 jobs. Meanwhile, Facebook is to create more than 100 new jobs in Dublin, with positions including corporate communications, data, developer relations, sales, administration and user operations advertised on its website.

#GRANDPARENTS: A new Bill legislating for the rights of grandparents to apply for access to children is to introduce a definition of the term in child guardianship law. The Rights of Grandparents Bill 2013 will change the current obligation on grandparents to have to apply to court for leave before applying for access to their grandchildren in circumstances where access is denied.

#BELGIUM: Belgium’s ‘most hated-man’ Marc Dutroux has been denied early release after applying to be released under house arrest with an electronic tag to monitor his movements. Dutroux was jailed for life in 2004 for the kidnap and rape between June 1995 and August 1996 of six young and teenage girls, four of whom died.

Visitor’s Assistant Hilal Ozelci views Roy Lichtenstein’s sculpture Galatea 1990, during the press preview for Lichtenstein: A Retrospective at Tate Modern, London. (Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)

THINGS WE LOVED:

• Every Wikipedia entry has an optional geo-tagging feature – so, if you mapped all information from its upload location, how would look? Programmer Olivier Beauchesne downloaded all of Wikipedia, used an algorithm to assemble topical clusters from keywords, and then placed the location of each on a map. The result is pretty amazing…
• Facebook announced 100 new jobs at its Dublin HQ today, which is great news. Unfortunately Chief of Detagging, Relative Blocker and other jobs we’d really like to see at Facebook aren’t among the advertised positions…
• McDonald’s was just a little bit smug about Burger King’s Twitter account being hacked earlier today.

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THINGS WE SHARED:

• This stunning photo gallery shows the Australasian Antarctic Expedition – a 31-man team who undertook the most ambitious yet of the southern continent in December 1921.
• David Cameron has regularly trumpeted Britain’s arms industry, naming it a key part of the nation’s economy… but is that really the case?
• How to astronauts sleep when in space? Answer: like zombies.

A model displays an Autumn/Winter design by Francis Montesinos during Madrid’s Fashion Week, in Madrid, Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De Olza)

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