8 March 2014 Last updated at 08:24
Search on after Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes
The aircraft never made it to Chinese airspace as John Sudworth reports from Beijing International Airport
A search is under way in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam after a Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on a flight to Beijing, with 239 people on board.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that flight MH370 had disappeared at 02:40 local time on Saturday (18:40 GMT on Friday) after leaving Kuala Lumpur.
It had been expected to land in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).
Malaysia's transport minister said there was no information on wreckage and he urged against speculation.
"We are doing everything in our power to locate the plane. We are doing everything we can to ensure every possible angle has been addressed," Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters in Kuala Lumpur.
"Our hope is that the people understand we are being as transparent as we can, we are giving information as quickly as we can, but we want to make sure information has been verified."
Asylum seekers across Australia launch legal appeals following data breach
Government faces slew of federal court appeals after details of every asylum seeker on the mainland was accidentally published
Asylum seekers across Australia are lodging court appeals following the inadvertent disclosure of almost 10,000 asylum seekers’ personal details, claiming the breach has exposed them to persecution from authorities in their home countries and therefore they are entitled to automatic protection.
Guardian Australia revealed in February that the names, dates of birth, countries of origin, arrival date and location of every asylum seeker in a mainland detention facility was accidentally published on the Immigration Department’s website.
A letter, which detainees say has been signed by more than 50 asylum seekers in Villawood detention centre in western Sydney, also alleges that Immigration Department staff have intimidated asylum seekers who have indicated they will lodge claims, and are inviting “vulnerable” detainees to waive their privacy rights.
Saudi Arabia names Muslim Brotherhood as terror group
Saudi Arabia has listed the Muslim Brotherhood and a number of other groups as terrorist organizations. The Brotherhood has been the target of many Gulf nations since Egypt's Mohammed Morsi was ousted last July.
Friday's announcement appeared to enforce the findings of a royal decree last month, in which Riyadh promised to punish those who fight in conflicts outside the kingdom, or join or support extremist groups.
A list published by the official Saudi Press Agency lists as terrorist organizations the Muslim Brotherhood, the Al-Nusra front - al Qaeda's official Syrian affiliate - as well as the branches of al Qaeda in Yemen and Iraq, Saudi Hezbollah and Yemen's Shiite Hawthis.
The interior ministry said it would prosecute anyone backing these groups "financially or morally," or who express sympathies for or promote them. Saudi Arabia also forbade citizens from fighting in conflict zones, giving Saudis fighting abroad a 15-day ultimatum to return home or face imprisonment.
Exhumed bones from Franco period bring crimes of Spanish dictatorship back to surface
Many in Spain feel it is best to let the country’s pre-democracy past rest in peace
Guy Hedgecoe
Nuria Maqueda is carefully cleaning the dirt off a bone with a small, fine-toothed brush. She still doesn’t know the sex of the person it belonged to or how old they were when they died – a forensic expert will confirm those details at a later date. But she does know that he or she was killed during Spain’s 1936-1939 civil war, before being thrown into a mass grave.
“This is an arm bone,” Maqueda explains, as she brushes encrusted mud off it on to an old newspaper. “These remains are from an exhumation we did in 2012 near here in a place called El Grillo. We dug up the bodies of 10 people.”
She is working in a small laboratory in Ponferrada, in northwestern Spain. Like so many young people in Spain, she and her two colleagues in the laboratory cannot find paid work. Instead, they have thrown themselves full-time into the painstaking, unpaid task of identifying mass graves containing anonymous victims of the civil war and the ensuing reprisals carried out by the right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, who governed from 1939 until 1975.
Nigeria's opposition sets out its vision for government
Nigeria's main opposition party has unveiled what it hopes will be a blueprint for winning power when voters in Africa's most populous nation go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament.
The All Progressives Congress (APC), which is expected to run President Goodluck Jonathan's ruling Peoples Democractic Party (PDP) close in next year's vote, called the manifesto a "Road Map to a New Nigeria".
The 10-point plan, which prioritises the fight against corruption, tackling insecurity and creating jobs, was unveiled at the party's first national conference, which concluded in Abuja on Thursday.
Party spokesman Lai Mohammed said the roadmap was drawn up after a survey and as a result was "what Nigerians need".
But the PDP was scathing in its response, while some political commentators said the document offered little alternative to policies previously proposed by the current government.
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