A glance at the week that was
1,400The number of fuel pumps found to be damaged, defective or wrongly calibrated by the National Standards Authority of Ireland last year.
45The percentage decrease in the number of children killed on Ireland's roads over 12 years.
5.8The magnitude of the earthquake that rattled the US east coast on Tuesday, cracking the Washington Monument (left)
1.8mThe number of visitors to Ireland between April and June, an increase of 15 per cent on the same period last year.
1,000The number of female sex workers in Ireland, according to a report by Dublin-based NGO Ruhama.
7.52mThe number of species yet to be discovered on Earth, according to research in the Public Library of Science and Biology.
We now know
There were no illegal substances in Amy Winehouse’s body at the time of her death, the toxicology results show.
A New York judge has dismissed the sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, ending a three-month legal saga.
The kidnapped father of Chelsea star John Mikel Obi has been found alive in the Nigerian city of Kano.
A robot on Twitter? Not necessarily a sign of intelligence
Robonaut 2, the first humanoid astronaut robot, has started tweeting from the International Space Station. “Look at me, I’m in space!” it announced via its Twitter account, @astrorobonaut, on Thursday. The semi-autonomous unit was created to assist humans both inside and outside the station, where it arrived via space shuttle Discovery.
Since emerging from sleep mode on Monday with its circuits fully operational, “R2” has found time to respond to questions, crack a few jokes and even send birthday greetings.
