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Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

Everyone’s talking about the death of a toddler, tests for Ebola, and water charges (still).

Updated 11.31pm

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

IRISH

Boy, two, found dead in apartment Niall Carson / PA Wire/Press Association Images Niall Carson / PA Wire/Press Association Images / PA Wire/Press Association Images

WORLD

Baby tortoises at Lake District Wild Life Park Three-week-old baby sulcatta tortoises, which have been named Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo, hitch a ride on the back of their mother Margaret at the Lake District Wild Life Park in the UK. Owen Humphreys / PA Wire Owen Humphreys / PA Wire / PA Wire

#EUROPE: A Eurosceptic group in the EU parliament, led by Nigel Farage, collapsed.

#IRAQ: A car bomb killed 26 people. [AFP]

#NEPAL: At least 28 people died in blizzards while hiking in the Himalayas. [BBC News]

#SPAIN: A flight was grounded over a suspected case of Ebola.

#SYRIA: Islamic State’s advance on Kobani has been all but halted. [Reuters]

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

These computer animations teach themselves how to walk, with some pretty hilarious (and some frighteningly life-like) results. [Vimeo]

Walking

Originally published 9pm

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