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

Enda Kenny with the newly appointed government junior ministers outside Government Buildings today Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Enda Kenny appointed his new junior ministers today.
• It was announced that former billionaire Seán Quinn would be leaving his position as an advisor with Quinn Industrial Holdings Ltd (QIHL).
• Teachers have voted overwhelmingly to stop working extra hours.
• 8,000 Irish Water customers have cancelled their direct debit arrangements since January.
• Gardaí appealed for help in locating a missing 18-year-old girl.

WORLD

A relative of a passenger on an EgyptAir flight that crashed early Thursday puts her hand on the window from inside a bus at Cairo International Airport, Egypt Ahmed AbdEl fattah / AP Ahmed AbdEl fattah / AP / AP

#GREECE: It is believed that a flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed into the sea between the Greek islands and the Egyptian coast.

#CANADA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised to lawmakers after an altercation in which he accidentally struck a member of the opposition with his elbow.

#UNITED STATES: George Zimmerman has auctioned off the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin.

INNOVATION

• Google has patented sticky car bonnets so that pedestrians attach to it when hit. 
• Think closing your Apps on your phone will help you save battery life? Think again.

 PARTING SHOT

New York Times New York Times

Ever wondered what it would be like to step foot on Pluto? The New York Times in association with the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the Universities Space Research Association have built a detailed virtual world to show you just that.

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