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

The sun rises behind the scaffolding-clad Washington Monument. Decorative lighting will be removed as work crews begin the task of removing the scaffolding from around the earthquake-damaged monument. It will reopen in spring 2014. (AP Photo)

IRISH

• Michael Noonan doesn’t want you to the pay the property tax for next year until next year.
• VAT receipts are down on target for the tenth month in a row according to the latest Exchequer returns.
• Aer Lingus cabin crew have voted in favour of industrial action.
• Water restrictions in Dublin continued today and will do so until Thursday.
• Distressed mortgage borrowers with AIB are to get help from a new third-party body.
• Dublin City Council closed motor tax offices to deal with a backlog.
• Alan Shatter thinks we may be suffering from referendum fatigue.
• A conversation between two judges about a family law case had no effect on the ruling.
• An Taisce is to write to the Health Minister over concerns about the National Children’s Hospital.
• Gardaí will tomorrow release an image of the unidentified girl found outside the GPO last month.
• Brian O’Driscoll and Fr Peter McVerry are to be given the Freedom of Dublin next year.
• A Guinness truck shed its load on Victoria Quay in Dublin this afternoon.
• RTÉ broadcaster John Murray spoke frankly about his depression as he returned to radio this morning.

WORLD

#ALPS SHOOTING: French police have released an image of the mysterious motorcyclist who may be linked to the shooting dead of a man, his wife and her mother near Lake Annecy over a year ago.

#KENYA: Four people have been charged in connection with the massacre at the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya last month.

#EGYPT: Ousted president Mohammed Morsi has told his trial for inciting the killing of protestors that he remains president of the country and believes the case is illegitimate. [BBC]

#NORWAY: Three people have been killed after a man, armed with a knife, hijacked a bus in Norway.

#HACKING: The phone hacking trial in the UK has heard how Rebekah Brooks was allegedly involved in an effort to hide material in the days after the closure of the News of The World two years ago. [The Guardian]

INNOVATION

• Check out the glow in the dark ice cream that costs $225 a scoop. Pricey. [Gizmodo]
• Netflix has started testing “ultra high definition” video also known as 4k technology which could be offered to customers from next year, but can broadband speeds cope? [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

There’s increasing evidence that yawning is contagious among humans, but what about animals? This short and sweet New York Times video explores the yawning contagion among chimps and dogs.