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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about Ivor Callely, the bodies from the Malaysian airline crash being handed over and the fish kill at the Tolka River.

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

IRELAND

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INTERNATIONAL 

Ukraine Plane Pro-Russian rebels and members of OSCE arrive for media briefing at the crash site Vadim Ghirda Vadim Ghirda

#MALAYSIA AIRLINES: Pro-Russian separatists have handed over the bodies of the dead and the plane’s black boxes from the Malaysian plane disaster.

#NO-FLY ZONE: US and European airlines have suspended flights from flying in or out of Israel.

#GAZA: Talks were held in Cairo today to try and bring about an Israel-Palestine ceasefire after two weeks of fighting.

#BOKO HARAM: It has been 100 days since the Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted, here’s a timeline of what has happened in that time.

INNOVATION

  • The fastest rocket ever built is going to be on auction in London and it’s expected to go for millions. [Geek.com
  • An Irish researcher has won a major acclaim for a lifesaving medical app that helps doctors on the ground in remote parts of Africa. [TheJournal.ie

PARTING SHOT

The Nostalgia Machine wants you to ‘get your childhood jam on‘ by entering the year you were born and checking out the hits of your birth year.

Originally published 9:00pm