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Last year's queen Grainne Keena prepares for the Irish Redhead Convention in Crosshaven, Co. Cork from 19-21 August with Michael O'Sullivan of Kanturk.

IRISH

• French authorities are going to charge Ian Bailey over the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, according to reports in France.
• Irish boxer Michael O’Reilly has failed a doping test ahead of the Olympic games.
• No forensic link has been found between convicted paedophile Eamon Cooke to missing schoolboy Philip Cairns.
• A man was injured in a shooting in south Dublin.
• An Irishman is in hospital after being ‘burnt to the bone‘ after his sleeping bag caught fire in Australia.
• Gardaí have said they are not treating the death of a woman in Cavan town as suspicious.
• Three churches in Donegal had satanic symbols drawn onto items within them. 
• A baby spider monkey has been born at Fota Wildlife Park.

WORLD

A passerby looks at floral tributes near the scene of a knife rampage in Russell Square, London, after a 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder. Dominic Lipinski / PA Dominic Lipinski / PA / PA

#LONDON: A Norwegian of Somali descent stabbed a US citizen to death and injured five others in a knife rampage in Camden.

#OLYMPICS: Riot police dispersed protesters in Rio with tear gas, before an Olympic torch-bearer dropped his pants before the crowd in protest at the political situation.

#YOU’RE FIRED: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump insists there is great unity in his campaign, despite senior Republican figures defecting to Hillary.

#DRUGS: Heroin is the number one drug for emergency department admissions in Europe, new research has shown.

INNOVATION

• Your phone’s battery life is being used to track you online.
• Hackers have accessed the messaging accounts of 15 million users of Telegram [The Guardian] 
  

PARTING SHOT

WATCH: This shocking footage, shot by an embedded western journalist, shows a suicide bomber preparing for his final mission with Al-Qaeda’s local Syrian offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.
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