EVERY MORNING,TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you kick off your day.

1. #MISSING: The search for Karen Buckley has entered its fourth day as police focus on a park in Glasgow.

2. #NEW YORK: An Irish tourist who alleges a former New York City investment banker raped her testified yesterday that she used “every ounce of strength” she had in trying to fend off her attacker.

3. #ROBBERS: New laws are to be introduced to give repeat burglars longer sentences. [RTÉ]

4. #GOOD READ: Irish author Colum McCann is in the running to win a literary award worth €100,000.

5. #MISSING: Gardaí have issued an appeal for a missing teenager who was last seen a week ago in Longford.

6. #MIGRANTS: Up to 400 are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean.

7. #SHOOTING: The suspect in a fatal shooting at a North Carolina college campus was arrested yesterday after being found asleep on a Florida beach 500 miles away.

8. #THEY’RE BACK: RTÉ has confirmed that the alien puppet twins Zig and Zag will be returning to our screens for a 26-episode series.

9. #LONDON: Police rescue a baby from a car on the hottest day of the year.