A glance at the week that was
7bn
The predicted population of the world by October 31st, according to the UN.
€26.4mThe amount that Bord Gáis wrote off in bad debts last year because of customer arrears.
2:14:56The record time in which Jacob Chesire won the Belfast marathon.
41The number of Irish customers who had financial data stolen after a second breach of Sony's online games network.
558The number of corporate insolvencies between January and April, according to insolvencyjournal.ie.
€471The average children receive for their Holy Communions, according to a survey by the Irish League of Credit Unions.
We now know
Hedgehogs are the smallest mammal to ever be tracked by GPS. They were monitored by scientists in New Zealand.
Norwich City secured their return to the Premier League after a six-year absence.
An inquest has found that the newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed at the G20 protests in London in 2009.
Needle and the damage
When the former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo was admitted to hospital with a bad cough, medics discovered a stray acupuncture needle had lodged in his right lung. Roh, a 78-year-old who served as president from 1988 to 1993, was released from Seoul National University Hospital on Monday after the 6.5cm needle was removed during surgery. “I can’t figure out how the needle got into there,” said the hospital’s Dr Sung Myung-whun.
Most read this week on irishtimes.com
1 Bin Laden shot twice in head, say US officials
2 Treatment of Ireland a disaster for European project
3 Osama bin Laden killed in shoot-out in Pakistan
4 The Nazi 'safe house' in Templeogue for sale at €1.25m
5 Kenny withdraws 'bin Laden' claim
6 The tweet that broke the news
7 Man died after 10-shot 'party trick'
8 Prince in Irish Guards uniform
9 Get richest 20% of our people to pay for crisis
10 Is it swansong for national anthem when copyright dies?
