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

IRELAND

Schumer and Judd Apatow pictured with Panti Bliss at live Q&A session Trainwrecks Collide at the O'Reilly Theatre at Belvedere College, Dublin. Brian McEvoy Brian McEvoy

• Anti-Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy wants to know why the media knew about the Jobstown charges before he did.
• A council worker was killed while cutting a hedge in Co Sligo.
• Gardaí in Ashbourne have “serious concerns” for man missing since Sunday.
• The number of people applying for safety orders from the Irish courts has increased massively in the last eight years.
• Homeless residents at a Dublin hotel have been banned from using its front door.
• RTÉ One launched its new season.
• People had to be stopped from jumping off a bridge on the M50 into a canal.
• The PSNI has renewed its appeal for information on the killing of former IRA man Kevin McGuigan.

INTERNATIONAL

Smoke billows from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality. Ng Han Guan Ng Han Guan

#CHINA: The death toll has risen to 50 after a series of explosions at an industrial area in the Chinese port of Tianjin.

#SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius is set to be freed on parole next week – after serving just ten months in jail.

#DORSET: A five-year-old has died after her head became stuck in a lift at a house in Weymouth in the UK.

#LONDON: Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into some allegations of sexual assault against Julian Assange.

#US: Chelsea Manning could face indefinite solitary confinement for having banned items in her cell, including Vanity Fair’s Caitlyn Jenner issue.

INNOVATION

• Here’s how to check where short links lead to.
• Samsung’s new phone turns into a Blackberry (remember those?). [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

It turns out bears are afraid of UFOs, more specifically drones. [IFLScience]

Originally published: 21.00