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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news…

Research published today found that teenagers are drawn to cigarettes in attractive packaging. Image: Jason Clarke Photography

IRELAND

• Ireland is out of recession (technically).
• 42 new jobs were created.
• The Bracken Court Hotel has pulled out of hosting a child beauty pageant.
• Gardaí caught armed robbers as they left the filling station they had just held up.
• Enda Kenny said Ireland’s corporation tax is not in question.
• Police investigating the murder of a 3-year-old boy arrested a man and a woman.
• Hospitals are still below standard when it comes to hand hygiene.
• Teenagers think cigarettes in nice packaging are cool.
• Dublin South County Council is selling land near The Square, Tallaght to NAMA.
• A pedestrian in his 70s was killed in a collision outside Mullingar hospital.
• Not everyone is happy about NAMA’s plans to hand over its properties for social housing.
• One group has come out to oppose the Court of Appeal referendum.
• Gardaí investigating Elaine O’Hara’s death have taken 120 statements and seized 1,600 hours of CCTV footage.
• A teenager has been charged with the murder of the family of a Dublin-based doctor.
• Jobseekers can now do up to three JobBridge internships.
• A prominent Dublin solicitor was found guilty of professional misconduct. [RTÉ]
• FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! The Dáil had its first row of the new term.

INTERNATIONAL

The death toll from the storms that hit Mexico this week has risen to 97 with another 58 still missing after a massive mudslide in a remote village west of Acapulco. [AFP and LA Times] (Image: Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP/Press Association Images)

#CATHOLIC CHURCH: The Pope has said there is no need for the church to talk about abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraception “all the time”.

#SYRIA: Bashar Assad promised to destroy his arsenal of chemical weapons but warned that it would cost $1 billion and take a year.

Meanwhile, in a retort opinion piece, John McCain told Russians that he was more ‘pro-Russian’ than their own president.

#ENGLAND: A pilot was arrested at Leeds Bradford airport on suspicion of being drunk.

#BRITAIN: An ad for a woman’s centre in London has been black-listed by the advertising watchdog because it gave the impression that it “offered terminations and was therefore an abortion clinic”.

#SPAIN: A five-month-old baby died in a tragic accident at Alicante airport.

#OUCH: JP Morgan Chase admitted wrongdoing and was fined a whopping $920 million.

INNOVATION

• Grand Theft Auto V sales made more than $800 million on its first day of release. [theguardian]
• The lads and ladies at TechCrunch have discovered that Apple’s new fingerprint sensor is not restricted to humans – and here’s the proof.

(YouTube: TechCrunch)

PARTING SHOT

Starbucks took out full-page ads in a number of US newspapers today to tell customers that guns are not welcome in its shops. Here is the CEO’s letter of explanation, in full. What do you think?

Image: Mark Allison/@marka17 via Twitter

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