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INTERNATIONAL

AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka Ukrainian emergency workers carry a victim's body in a bag at the MH17 crash site. AP Photo / Evgeniy Maloletka / Evgeniy Maloletka

#GAZA: This has been the deadliest day so far in the assault on Gaza with at least 100 people dead. The Palestinian president has described it as a “massacre”.

#MH17: The remains of up to 196 people from the MH17 crash in Ukraine have been loaded onto trains – but their destination is still unclear.

#RIP: Legendary actor James Garner, star of The Great Escape and The Rockford Files, has died at the age of 86.

IRELAND

David Davies / AP Photo David Davies / AP Photo / AP Photo

• Rory McIlroy has won the Open Championship by two shots.
  
• A HSE report is re-examining the deaths of 13 patients in the Midlands. [RTE]
• An Irish surfer has gone missing in Australian waters.
• Maurice McCabe is to meet with the Garda Commissioner over harassment.
• Three people were airlifted from Croagh Patrick after falling.
• Ireland has spent almost €100k on election monitoring this year.
• An estimated 80,000 people attended the Bray Air Show.

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INNOVATION

• Got a kid? Worried about them running up giant bills when they use your phone to play a game? Don’t worry. Here’s what to do. 
• Check out these eerie pictures of an abandoned World War II bomb shelter, deep below London’s busy streets, which has been converted into an underground farm. [CNET]

PARTING SHOT

It was exactly one year ago that the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, one of the most contentious pieces of legislation ever to pass the Oireachtas, was signed into law. In this oral history, TheJournal.ie political editor Hugh O’Connell spoke to people on all sides about what it was like at the coalface of the gruelling political debate, from receiving death threats, getting upset in their office, the 5am sitting, and what they make of it all with hindsight. [TheJournal.ie]