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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everybody’s talking about a Europe-wide data breach, the FOI Bill, a racist attack in Dublin and the World Trade Center being tall, very tall.

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

imageA husband and wife protect their baby from the rain as they wait for an evacuation flight in Tacloban, central Philippines. Pic: AP Photo/Wally Santana.

IRISH

WORLD

#TYPHOON HAIYAN: Survivors in the Philippines are attempting to flee the devastation as humatarian concerns increase in the region.

#IRAN: Iran has hit back at the US over the failure of nuclear talks after US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that they had collapsed a proposed deal.

#WORD TRADE CENTER: An expert panel has declared the new World Trade Center as the western hemisphere’s tallest building after a dispute over whether the spire on top could be counted when measuring height.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

(Youtube/neway47)

Keep calm and get off the plane. Commercial airlines must be able to evacuate an entire plane in 90 seconds or less in case of an emergency. Watch these 873 people get off a plane in 78 seconds in a 2006 test. (H/T: Neatorama)