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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about a tapir attack, Kim Jong-Un… oh, and Budget 2015.

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

BUDGET 2015

Irish budget 2015 Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin (left) and Minister for Finance Michael Noonan deliver the 2015 Budget at Government Buildings. Brian Lawless / PA Wire Brian Lawless / PA Wire / PA Wire

IRISH

Irish budget 2015 Demonstrators outside Leinster House. Brian Lawless Brian Lawless

WORLD

Ukraine Fighters from the Azov volunteer battalion ignite flares during the march marking the 72th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Kiev. AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov / Sergei Chuzavkov

#GERMANY: A United Nations worker died from Ebola.

#NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong-Un reappeared after an unusually long absence.

#SOUTH AFRICA: Pistorius’s sentencing hearing heard that he offered Reeva Steenkamp’s family “blood money”.

#SPAIN: The leader of Catalonia vowed to go ahead with an independent vote, but in a different form.

#UNITED KINGDOM: A terror trial suspect had Tony Blair’s address on a scrap of paper, a trial heard.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

This guy made a machine gun that makes and fires paper aeroplanes using a 3D printer. [core77]

Papierfliegerei / YouTube

Originally published 9pm

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