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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Martin McGuinness, Rescue 116 and a laptop ban had people talking today.

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

IRELAND

Martin McGuinness death The coffin containing the body of Martin McGuinness is carried to his home in Derry. Niall Carson / PA Images Niall Carson / PA Images / PA Images

INTERNATIONAL

Viking hoard Viking actors (from left) Connor Milton, Jen Cresswell and Louisa Anderson, joined the Galloway Viking Hoard Campaign at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh as they hand over a petition calling for the items hidden for 1,000 years in Galloway to be kept in the area rather than moved to the National Museum of Scotland. Jane Barlow / PA Wire/PA Images Jane Barlow / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#BAN: The US and UK announced a ban on large electronic devices on board flights from some Middle Eastern nations.

#NEW DIGS: Ivanka Trump has been given an office in the White House, though she is not a government employee.

#LONDON: A man has been charged with the murder of a one-year-old boy and attempted murder of a one-year-old girl in London.

PARTING SHOT

Everything you know about maps is wrong. Even if you’ve seen that West Wing episode. The Independent has a piece that shows how the Dymaxion map shows how interconnected and small the world actually is.

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