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Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

The looming collapse of the North’s Executive, plans to accept refugees, and a new kind of human had people talking.

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

Britain Northern Ireland Stormont Crisis Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson Peter Morrison / AP/Press Association Images Peter Morrison / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

IRELAND

WORLD

Hungary Migrants A young boy looks waves out of a bus window as he leaves a migrant camp for asylum seekers near Roszke, southern Hungary. Matthias Schrader / AP/Press Association Images Matthias Schrader / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#HUNGARY: The country’s military is staging drills to deter more migrants from entering. [WSJ]

#JAPAN: Thousands of people have fled severe flooding. [JapanToday]

#SERBIA: Eight people have been charged over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. [BBC News]

#SOUTH AFRICA: A new species of human was discovered in an African cave.

#TURKEY: As many as 32 people have died so far during the siege of Cizre. [The Guardian]

#UNITED STATES: California moved closer to legalising euthanasia.

INNOVATION

  • Elon Musk has an unusual suggestion of how to make Mars livable – nuke it. [Business Insider]
  • The tech world is still reeling from yesterday’s Apple conference. Here’s everything announced in 90 seconds. [Gizmodo]
  • Take a look at one of the earliest galaxies. [ScienceDaily]

PARTING SHOT

Fetch your smelling salts, the new Irish Farmer Calendar has been published. [DailyEdge.ie]

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:29 AM

    Taylor Swift doesn’t write all her own music?thats put me right of what is probably the best body in the business.
    Swifty,call me.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:42 AM

    she is heavily involved in her song creation in fairness to her

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    Oct 11th 2015, 11:26 AM

    @Arthur – Oh Please!

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:22 AM

    Aoife, sorry for being overly sensitive, but why is it so note worthy that one of the presenters on The Great British Bake Off is gay? This is by no means a factor in the show or ever commented upon and that kind of journalism marginalise people. Put it into context, would you say one of them being straight?

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:25 AM

    That’s a quote from the guardian

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    Oct 11th 2015, 12:18 PM

    Hi! This is an excerpt from The Guardian article to illustrate what the article content is like.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:42 AM

    Taylor writes/cowrites all of her own songs.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:54 AM

    Did you not see where I wrote All. That’s only for starters. It’s a Sunday morning everyone relax

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    Oct 11th 2015, 10:59 AM

    Well, if you read the article and aren’t naive, you’ll understand that that’s not accurate.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 11:13 AM

    Are you saying she writes every word of every song she has ever produced.

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    Oct 11th 2015, 1:14 PM

    in fairness they’re pretty shit so wouldn’t be too hard :-)

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    Oct 11th 2015, 2:04 PM

    Glen your talking about Arthur’s girlfriend there

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    Oct 11th 2015, 3:21 PM

    So basically all the hits from America are from a Stock, Aik and Waterman type situation. Why do these “artists” accept music awards? It’s all fake!!

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