Malaysia Airlines MH370: Abbott vows to solve plane 'riddle'
Jon Donnison reports from Fremantle Port in Perth, where much of the search operation is based
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says authorities are "throwing everything we have" at the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
He was speaking as weather conditions in the southern Indian Ocean improved, allowing the search to resume.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) says 12 aircraft are taking part in Wednesday's operations.
The plane vanished on 8 March as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.
"We owe it to the families, we owe it to an anxious world to do everything we can to finally locate some wreckage and to do whatever we can to solve the riddle of this extraordinarily ill-fated flight," Mr Abbott said.
Chinese protest leader seeks asylum in US, say reports
Zhuang Liehong led 2011 popular uprising over local leadership's land deals in Wukan, Guangdong province
The departure of Zhuang Liehong illustrates the troubles the village in the southern province of Guangdong has faced since winning free elections after months of fierce demonstrations.
Wukan residents ousted their longtime leadership after discovering land sales they believe to be self-serving and illegal, a common source of popular anger across the country.
Far-right weighs on Ukraine government
The transitional government in Kyiv faces major challenges. The West supports the new government while Russia calls it fascist and illegitimate. But who are the new ministers in the Ukraine government?
"Nationalists, neo-Nazis, russophobes and anti-Semites have carried out this overthrow of the government. They still set the tone in Ukraine," said Russian President Vladimir Putin in a speechbefore the Russian parliament after the Crimea referendum. And Russia's Kremlin-friendly media also regularly refer to the "fascist government" in Kyiv.
But the transitional government in Ukraine cannot be reduced to that and is much more varied. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is the most prominent face and most important person in the new government. He is a member of Yulia Tymoshenko's liberal-conservative All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland." He is, despite his young age of 39, already an experienced politician. The legal expert and economist was already the president of Ukraine's parliament between December 2007 and September 2008. Before that, he was the country's foreign minister.
Survivors sue Kenyan government over sexual abuses
A group of survivors of sexual violence committed after Kenya's violence-hit 2007 elections has taken the government to court.
A group of survivors of sexual violence committed after Kenya's violence-hit 2007 elections took the government to court on Tuesday over its alleged failure to protect them and bring the perpetrators to justice.
The six women and two men, who are supported by a coalition of four human rights organisations, have lodged a complaint in the high court in Nairobi directed against Kenya's attorney general, director of public prosecutions, and members of the police and public health authorities.
The opening of the case comes as Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice-President William Ruto are still grappling with charges laid by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their alleged roles in the 2007-2008 unrest, which left at least a thousand dead.
Mt. Gox Works With Cops After $490M in Bitcoins Vanish
TOKYO - In the first confirmation of a criminal investigation at Mt. Gox, the failed bitcoin exchange said on Wednesday it was working with the police "with regard to the disappearance" of bitcoins worth some $490 million at current prices.
Mt. Gox said in a brief statement on its website that it had submitted records and documents to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police as part of its civil rehabilitation application. A police spokesman declined to comment and said no announcements were planned.
Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy protection in Tokyo on Feb. 28, saying 750,000 bitcoins belonging to its customers and 100,000 of its own bitcoins were stolen by hackers who exploited a security flaw in its software. It also said $28 million were "missing" from its Japanese bank accounts.
Venezuela arrests generals 'plotting coup' |
President Maduro says three generals with opposition ties attempted to get Air Force to rise up against his government.
Last updated: 26 Mar 2014 05:47
Three Venezuelan air force generals accused of plotting a coup against the leftist government of President Nicolas Maduro have been arrested amid a widening crackdown on the opposition.
The unidentified generals were in contact with opposition politicians and "were trying to get the Air Force to rise up against the legitimately elected government," Maduro said on Tuesday, in a meeting of South American foreign ministers.
"This group that was captured has direct links with sectors of the opposition and they were saying that this week was the decisive week," Maduro said.
The disclosure comes after more than six weeks of street protests that have left at least 34 dead.
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