Every afternoon, TheJournal.ie brings you the five news stories you should know about by 5pm.

1. # WIKILEAKS:  Wikileaks has released US government cables containing a list of international locations considered vital to US national security.

Two of these locations are Irish; The Hibernia Atlantic undersea cable landing in Dublin and Genzyme Ireland Ltd in Waterford.

2. # MULLINGAR: A 29-year-old woman remains in garda custody after being arrested in connection with an incident in which a teenager was critical injured in Mullingar on Saturday night.

The victim was set upon and assaulted by a number of teenagers at around 6:45pm on Saturday evening, on the north side of the town. He remains in a critical condition in hospital.

3. # KOREA: US president Barack Obama has appealed to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao to get tough with North Korea.

Obama has asked China to “send a clear message to North Korea that its provocations are unacceptable.”

4. # HOT-AIR BALLOONING: Italian rescue workers have recovered the bodies of two American hot air balloonists who had gone missing while taking part in a long-distance endurance race in September.

Richard Abruzzo and Carol Rymer Davis had not been heard from since they reported poor weather over the Adriatic Sea off Italy’s east coast on September 29. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out in an attempt to identify the circumstances behind the accident.

5. # CONCORDE: A French court has found airline Continental criminally responsible for the fatal crash which killed 113 people in 2000.

The court ruled that a strip of titanium on the runway which had fallen from a Continental Airlines flight was responsible for the Concorde puncture.