31 December 2014 Last updated at 09:20
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Next of kin have been asked for DNA samples to help identify the victims.
The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday and remains were located in the sea on Tuesday.
The authorities say seven bodies have been retrieved, but bad weather is hampering further salvage efforts.
A public memorial will be held in Surabaya on Wednesday evening local time, and the governor of East Java province has told the BBC that all New Year'sEve celebrations have been cancelled.
On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.
It is not yet clear what happened to the plane but its last communication was a request from air traffic control to climb to avoid bad weather. The pilot did not respond when given permission.
AirAsia bodies returned to airport
First two bodies from AirAsia crash arrive in Indonesian city of Surabaya, where relatives are waitingBBC News
Next of kin have been asked for DNA samples to help identify the victims.
The Airbus A320-200, carrying 162 people from Surabaya to Singapore, disappeared on Sunday and remains were located in the sea on Tuesday.
The authorities say seven bodies have been retrieved, but bad weather is hampering further salvage efforts.
A public memorial will be held in Surabaya on Wednesday evening local time, and the governor of East Java province has told the BBC that all New Year'sEve celebrations have been cancelled.
On board the plane were 137 adult passengers, 17 children and one infant, along with two pilots and five crew.
It is not yet clear what happened to the plane but its last communication was a request from air traffic control to climb to avoid bad weather. The pilot did not respond when given permission.
Japanese family who tended Briton's grave for 140 years finally learn his identity
The Murai family receive a letter of thanks from the British ambassador after mystery of ex-pat’s remains is solved
More than 140 years after their ancestors started tending the grave of a British man who died in obscurity, a Japanese family has finally learned his identity – and received an official message of thanks from the British government.
For much of that period, members of the Murai family, who live in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, thought they were maintaining the last resting place of a man named Philip Ward.
In fact, the grave belongs to Bernard George Littlewood, who came to Japan to teach English in 1870, just as the country was beginning to modernise.
Homeland criticised by Pakistan officials for portraying country as a 'grimy hellhole'
Migrant ship Blue Sky M arrives in Italy
A large freighter with no crew and hundreds of hopeful migrants has been intercepted by the Italian navy following a distress call. There were many questions as the ship was brought to a port in southern Italy.
The Blue Sky M docked in the port of Gallipoli early on Wednesday after the Italian Navy undertook an operation to save some 700 migrants aboard the Moldovan-flagged freighter after a distress signal was sent out. Despite the distress signal, there appeared to be nothing mechanically wrong with the ship. It was most likely activated by one of the migrants, who were in need of food and blankets.
Police and maritime authorities have said they would investigate how the migrants, reportedly mainly from Syria and including a heavily pregnant woman, came to be hidden on the cargo ship, which was headed for the Croatian port of Rijeka.
With climate change, Himalayas' future is warmer, not necessarily brighter
December 31, 2014 -- Updated 0349 GMT (1149 HKT)
As snow layered the trail before him, Hari Chaudhary thought it was odd. The veteran trekking guide had never seen snow on the trail in early October.
The popular 21-day Annapurna Circuit takes trekkers in a horseshoe-shaped route around a majestic segment of the Himalayas in Nepal.
On the 10th day of the tour, Chaudhary and his clients, two young Israeli women, were descending from the highest point of the trail, Thorung La Pass, to the next destination, a walk that would normally take about seven hours.
Now, after more than 10 hours of heading downhill, the snow pelted.
The flurry fell heavier and faster, obstructing their vision. There was nowhere to stop or rest; they had to keep walking.
"You couldn't see the trail, there was snow everywhere, making it easy to get lost," said Chaudhary. "It was all white, in the distance you could only see shadows of people walking."
Iraqi forces 'retake Dhuluiyah from ISIL' |
Pro-government forces complete recapture of strategic town which had been held by ISIL for months, commanders say.
Last updated: 31 Dec 2014 00:44
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Iraqi forces have completed the recapture of Dhuluiyah, parts of which had been held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for months, commanders have said.
Pro-government forces had pushed into the town, located 90km outside Baghdad, from the north two days earlier, fighting their way south.
"Forces from the army and the police and [militiamen] and tribal fighters succeeded today in regaining control of Dhuluiyah," an army major general told the AFP news agency on Tuesday.
The officer said that 50 military vehicles advanced from the north and linked up with allied forces in the town's southern Jubur area, which had resisted repeated assault by ISIL.
In Colombia, a palm oil boom with roots in conflict
MAPIRIPAN, Colombia — Long before the massacre, when Mapiripan was just a faraway little place not worth fighting for, Aida Gordilla and her family came to the wide-open grasslands outside town and fenced off a homestead. They called it Macondo, like the enchanted village in the Colombian novel popular at the time, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Today, a sign at the edge of town still reads “Macondo Way,” but the road leads to a palm oil processing plant amid a vast orchard of a million trees, sown in tidy rows by a Spanish-Italian company, Poligrow. Gordilla’s family and the others are gone.
What drove them from Mapiripan and Macondo is only one dark little episode in the civil conflict that has scarred Colombia for half a century, leaving at least 220,000 dead and 5.7 million uprooted by four-way violence among leftist rebels, government forces, right-wing paramilitary groups and criminal gangs.
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