33

Days' holiday the Dáil plans for Christmas

3,600

Tonnes of waste polluting streets of Naples as domestic refuse again goes uncollected as city runs out of dumps

9

Age of Palestinian child used as human shield by two Israeli soldiers, demoted last week for forcing the boy to open suspected booby-trapped bags at gunpoint

$85bn

What Brian Lenihan calls the "less than three figure" loan facility being negotiated with the IMF and EU

-5

Degrees celsius: average temperatures we can expect in coming days. The weather is in sympathy with the economic chill

15

Percentage of maths and English lessons given by primary teachers deemed 'unsatisfactory' by
Department of Education inspectors

£14m

Estimated cost of Prince William and Kate
Middleton's wedding

$666

1976 price of Apple's first computer, Apple 1, auctioned to an Italian collector last week for £133,250

200

Artillery shells fired from North Korea onto South Korean island of Yeonpyeong

17

Age of Joseph Dunbay, youngest victim of Pike River mine disaster