A glance at the week that was
13,000Irish children in need of orthodontic treatment who are on waiting lists.
7.5%China's new projected growth rate for 2012, down from 8 per cent, alarming markets.
30Number of goals Barcelona's resident genius Lionel Messi has scored in his last 25 Champions League matches, including five against Bayer Leverkusen on Wednesday.
3.1mPixel count in the high-resolution display of Apple's new iPad.
45
Number of advertisers who have pulled ads from the Rush Limbaugh radio show in the US after his latest controversy, when he called a law student a “slut” for supporting health-plan coverage for contraception.
$69bnMexican tycoon Carlos Slim's personal fortune, according to Forbes magazine's new rich list.
We now know
A full-scale replica of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple is being built on the banks of the Ganges in Bihar, India.
An unusual lunar event might have played a part in the sinking of Titanic by releasing large icebergs from the Arctic, according to Texan astronomers.
Occupy camps in Dublin, Galway and Waterford have been dismantled
Jaw-jaw or war-war?
Sport is war minus the shooting, as George Orwell once put it; something similar goes for Eurovision, surely the kitchiest platform for stoking nationalist fervour. The latest spat has seen Armenia – represented last year by Emmy – pull out of this year’s song contest, in next-door Azerbaijan in May. Tensions between the countries have long been fractious, and the “frozen conflict” over the Armenian- populated enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh remains contentious.
