Sources close to the investigation into the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 told Reuters on Friday that radar data showed that the missing plane was deliberately flown across the Malaysian peninsula towards the Andaman Islands. Here are five things ...
PARIS (AFP) - French prosecutors on Tuesday opened a judicial investigation for manslaughter following the mystery disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people on board. The move by the Paris prosecutors is standard practice since four of ...
PHU QUOC ISLAND, Vietnam: Vietnam has scrambled rescue helicopters to check a "yellow object" floating in its waters that rescue teams suspect could be a life raft from a Malaysian plane that went missing with 239 people aboard, a minister said on ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Hijacking could not be ruled out and all possibilities were being investigated into why a Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 239 people went missing enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, the chief Malaysian investigator said on Monday.
KUALA LUMPUR: As of 7pm the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak confirmed that no wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 was found. At a press conference held at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, he said search and rescue operation ...
China on Wednesday extended its spending spree on the world's largest armed forces, unveiling a 12.2 percent increase on the 2014 defence budget in a trend that has provoked concern in Asia and the US. Beijing has for years been raising spending on the ...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is in talks to buy a solar-powered drone startup in what could lead to making wireless Internet available in regions without online access, according to technology news website TechCrunch. TechCrunch cited an unidentified ...
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union warned on Monday that EU-Russia ties were at risk if Moscow failed to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine. "In the absence of de-escalating steps by Russia the EU shall decide about consequences for bilateral relations ...
PRETORIA (AFP) - The trial of Oscar Pistorius was adjourned until Tuesday after South Africa's Paralympian star pleaded not guilty to murdering his girlfriend and the defence grilled the first state witness. The trial will resume on Tuesday at 09:30 am (3.20pm ...
Ukraine warned Sunday it was on the brink of disaster and called up all military reservists after Russia's threat to invade its neighbour drew sharp rebukes from the United States and its Western allies. US Secretary of State John Kerry upped the stakes for ...
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AFP) - Deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, appearing in public for the first time since he was ousted, said he spoke by telephone to Russian leader Vladimir Putin after arriving in the country but had not yet met with ...
Anti-government protesters shout slogans and wave banners, some reading: "stop the crackdown on labour unions" as they take part in a rally in Seoul on Feb 25, 2014. South Korean President Park Geun Hye on Tuesday, Feb 25, 2014, unveiled a three-year ...
The government of Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi said on Monday it has resigned, ahead of a presidential poll which will likely bring army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to power. Sisi, by far the country's most popular political figure, has not yet ...
Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110, her family announced. Herz-Sommer, originally from Prague in what is now the Czech Republic, spent two ...
KIEV (REUTERS) - The daughter of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said she was going to meet her mother later on Saturday in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, where she is being held, signalling she expected her imminent release.
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych speaks in Kiev on Feb 19, 2014, during his address to the nation. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Wednesday announced a truce and the start of direct talks with the opposition after holding private talks with ...
KIEV (AFP) - Ukrainian anti-government protestors on Tuesday took back control of Kiev's city hall following bloody clashes with riot police just two days after vacating the building. Protesters guarded the entrance and some 30 activists were setting up a first ...
Thailand's anti-graft body said on Tuesday that it would charge premier Yingluck Shinawatra over the troubled state rice mortgage scheme, as clashes between police and protesters in central Bangkok left four people dead and at least 64 people injured.
LONDON (AFP) - Flood-hit Britain suffered a fresh battering on Wednesday from storms and high winds that caused power outages to nearly 150,000 homes, the cancellation of football matches and the death of one man. Gusts approaching 160 kilometres ...
I'VE written a series of columns from Israel in the past two weeks because I believe that if United States Secretary of State John Kerry brings his peace mission to a head and presents the parties with a clear framework for an agreement, Israel and the Jewish ...
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