Australian PM ‘confident’ signals are from black box
Towing an underwater microphone "fish" and hoping to deploy a deep-sea robotic surveyor, the Australian ship Ocean Shield concentrates its search for Flight 370 in a 30,000-square-mile search area about 1,400 miles northwest of Perth in the Southern Indian Ocean. With the batteries on the missing aircraft’s black boxes expetced to die at any moment it has become a race against time to extract as much information as possible from them in order to narrow the search.
Tony Abbott says audio signals have helped reduce the search area but warned they are starting to fade.
Mysterious Chinese suicides spark debate, censorship
The deaths of Chinese officials in recent weeks have raised questions among ordinary citizens.
Aircraft detects ‘possible’ new signal in hunt for Flight 370
The latest acoustic signals raise hopes that search teams may be closing in on the jet’s wreckage.
China bus crash kills 8 children, injures 32
A bus crash in China's southern island province kills eight school children and injures 32 others, becoming the latest in a string of similar accidents in rural China where transport is dangerous.
Hagel gets a gift horse from Mongolian hosts on Asia trip
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was presented with a horse when he met with his counterpart in Mongolia.
India votes in crucial phase of national elections
India’s ruling Congress Party looks set for a resounding defeat as the world's biggest election enters its third phase.
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