SANTIAGO – Chile has declared two northern regions hit by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake to be disaster areas. At least six people are known to have died and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated. The quake struck at 20:46 local time (23:46 GMT) about 86km (52 miles) north-west of the mining area of…
PERTH – The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is the “most challenging” ever seen, the man responsible for co-ordinating the search from Australia says. Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston also said that the search for the plane could take weeks. The plane disappeared on 8 March as it was travelling from Kuala Lumpur…
BRUSSELS – Nato foreign ministers are due to discuss ways to help Ukraine and reassure allies in Eastern Europe, at a meeting in Brussels. It is the first time ministers from the 28 member states of the alliance have convened since Russia’s takeover of Crimea caused a diplomatic crisis. Nato has also bolstered air drills…
KUALA LUMPUR – Forget all those satellite photos showing promising patches of debris. The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has moved again. In a stunning turn, Australian authorities announced Friday that they were abandoning the remote region of Indian Ocean where search crews had spent more than a week looking for the plane….
PERTH – Bad weather brought an early end to Thursday’s aerial search for traces of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean, authorities said. But five ships in the area are trying to keep up the search despite the difficult conditions. All the planes that had flown out to the search…
WASHINGTON – There was little in the way of a warning before the rain-saturated ground in Washington’s Cascade Mountains gave way, sending a wall of mud through a portion of the towns of Oso and Darrington. With as many as 24 dead and up to 176 people unaccounted for in the massive landslide that struck…
KUALA LUMPUR – New satellite images provided by a French defense firm show 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean, not far from other satellite sightings that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the Malaysian transport minister said Wednesday. The objects were scattered over 154 square miles (400 square kilometers), acting…
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s prime minister has announced that missing flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Najib Razak said this was the conclusion of fresh analysis of satellite data tracking the flight. Malaysia Airlines had told the families of the 239 people on board, he said. Standing sombre before the world’s media, Malaysia’s…
BEIJING – A large piece of floating debris has been spotted in the remote Indian Ocean search zone for missing flight MH370, it was revealed yesterday. Chinese satellites picked up signs of a “suspicious” object measuring 22 metres by 30 metres in an area 100km west of where Australia reported an earlier sighting of floating…
KUALA LUMPUR – The second day of an international search for a missing Malaysian airliner has concluded without any sightings of debris in the southern Indian Ocean. The operation is due to start again on Saturday with extra vessels joining the search, Australian officials say. Five aircraft took part in Friday’s search for flight MH370,…
