Six In The Morning Wednesday March 12

12 March 2014 Last updated at 08:01

Malaysia Airlines MH370: Confusion over plane last location

Search teams are scouring waters off both sides of the Malaysian peninsula, amid confusion over a missing Malaysia Airlines plane's last known location.

Malaysia's air force chief has denied reports that the plane was tracked to the Malacca Strait in the west.

Vietnam has despatched a plane to investigate an eyewitness report of a possible object burning in the sky east of Vietnam.

Flight MH370 went missing on Saturday. It had 239 people on board.

Authorities have been searching for the plane, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, for the past five days.

Earlier this week, Malaysia widened the search for the missing plane amid conflicting reports on its last known position.

History avenges France’s famous outcast empress Josephine de Beauharnais

An exhibition in Paris celebrates the woman Napoleon divorced because she could not bear children

Lara Marlowe

“I awake filled with you. Your portrait and yesterday’s intoxicating evening left no repose for my senses. Gentle, incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart!”

Napoleon Bonaparte was a general in the revolutionary army when he penned these lines to Marie-Joseph Rose de Beauharnais – it was he who changed her name to Josephine – shortly after they met in October 1795. They married five months later.

“My husband does not love me; he adores me,” the bride confided in a letter.

Josephine was 16-years-old when she married Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais. By age 20, she had borne two children. In 1794 he was guillotined but she was spared and began her social ascent.

Ugandans petition court over anti-gay law

11 MAR 2014 16:13 ELIAS BIRYABAREMA

Ugandans opposed to a new anti-homosexuality law have filed a constitutional petition alleging that the law violates fundamental rights.

Ugandans opposed to a new anti-homosexuality law that punishes gay sex with long jail sentences have filed a constitutional petition alleging that the law violates fundamental rights.

The Anti-Homosexuality Act metes out jail terms of up to life for "aggravated homosexuality" while "aiding and abetting homosexuality" is punishable by seven-year prison sentences. Some Western donors have cut aid to Uganda in protest.

The punishments are some of the harshest in Africa, a continent where homosexuality is broadly taboo and illegal in 37 countries. Fear of violence, imprisonment and loss of jobs means few gays in Africa are open about their sexuality.

Activists say the new legislation, signed into law by President Yoweri Museveni on February 24, infringes on fundamental rights to privacy, non-discrimination and freedom from cruelty and inhumane treatment.

Southeast Asia

Mar 12, '14 Asia's long history of carnage in the air By John McBeth  JAKARTA - The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777-200 has now become almost as bizarre as the disappearance of the aircraft itself with authorities now saying it may not only have reversed course, but flew 500 kilometers back across the Malaysian peninsula.  In a stunning turn of events, the Malaysian Air Force claimed Flight 370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, was last detected on radar crossing the northern end of the Malacca Strait at 2.40 am, more than an hour after it lost contact over the South China Sea.  But with the Indonesians and civilian radar operators unable to confirm the new radar track and air force chief Rodzali Daud saying he had been misquoted, it still left open the question why the pilot could not send a distress signal or otherwise communicate he was in trouble?  Japan's Abe seeks trilateral summit with Korea, U.S.   By Nobuhiro Kubo50 minutes ago  Japan is trying to arrange a trilateral summit with South Korea and the United States for this month, a government official said on Wednesday, in a bid to thaw Tokyo's frozen relations with Seoul. But Korea appears cool to the idea of a meeting of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Korean President Park Geun-hye and U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of a global nuclear-security summit in the Hague, Netherlands, on March 24-25. Japan hopes that with mutual ally Obama in the room, Park would be willing to sit down face-to-face with Abe, something the Japanese leader has sought unsuccessfully since he took office 15 months ago. Globe Theatre defends its world tour including North Korea By Madison Park, CNN March 12, 2014 -- Updated 0733 GMT (1533 HKT) After his father's death, a young prince, driven by suspicion, kills his uncle in a web of political intrigue. Sound familiar? The classic Shakespearean drama "Hamlet" is scheduled for a performance in North Korea in September 2015 by the Globe Theatre as part of a two-year tour to perform in every country. The parallels of staging a drama about an epic family power struggle in Pyongyang, where the country's young leader Kim Jong Un hadhis uncle, Jang Song Thaek executed has raised a few eyebrows -- especially from human rights groups. Jang was considered instrumental in Kim's rise to power, but Kim turned his back on his uncle in spectacular fashion late last year as Jang was branded "a traitor for all ages" and executed on charges that he had attempted to overthrow the government.