An oil slick in the seas between Vietnam and Malaysia is seen from the air Sunday March 9, 2014. (AP)
 

Vietnam: Object spotted in water in jet search

Officials looking for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane suspect the piece could be a door.  Same area where oil slicks seen »

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  • Vietnam says it may have found missing jet's door

    Vietnamese authorities searching waters for the missing Boeing 777 jetliner spotted an object Sunday that they suspected was one of the plane's doors, as international intelligence agencies joined the investigation into two passengers who boarded the aircraft with stolen passports.

    Associated Press

  • Malaysia investigators probe possible airport security lapse

    By Niluksi Koswanage KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian officials are poring over CCTV footage and questioning immigration officers and guards at Kuala Lumpur's international airport, concerned that a security breach may be connected to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Suspicions that the Beijing-bound Boeing jet, which vanished on Saturday with 239 people on board, may have been hijacked or bombed have risen after at least two passengers were found to be using stolen passports, though Malaysia's government stressed it was considering all possibilities. Malaysian investigators, assisted by the FBI, are probing the identities of four passengers in particular, two Malaysian officials with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters. The four comprise two travelers with European passports, possibly Ukrainian, in addition to two travelling on stolen Austrian and Italian passports, the sources said.

    Reuters

  • Merkel raps Putin as Russian forces tighten grip on Crimea

    Russian forces' seizure of the Black Sea peninsula has been bloodless but tensions are mounting.

    Reuters

  • Putin defends separatist drive in Crimea as legal

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the separatist drive in the disputed Crimean Peninsula as in keeping with international law, but Ukraine's prime minister vowed not to relinquish "a single centimeter" of his country's territory.

    Associated Press29 mins ago

  • US general's accuser was ambitious soldier too

    FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Army captain who has accused Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair of sexually assaulting her during their three-year relationship was an ambitious soldier with plans to make the military her career, much like the boss she loved and admired.

    Associated Press26 mins ago

  • Stigma hinders efforts to combat leprosy in India

    TAHIRPUR, India (AP) — At first, Ashok Yadav ignored the patches of pink skin on his arm. But when pale sores erupted on his body and he lost sensation in his fingertips, a doctor issued the devastating diagnosis: Yadav had leprosy.

    Associated Press

  • State oversight may tame California pot shops

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Law and order may soon be coming to the Wild West of weed.

    Associated Press

  • Utah polygamous family says going on TV liberating

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The newest Utah polygamous family featured in a reality TV show says sharing their story with a wide audience has been liberating.

    Associated Press30 mins ago

  • Family of Texas man on flight comforted by faith

    KELLER, Texas (AP) — The family of a North Texas man who was aboard the Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing says they saw him about a week ago when he visited home.

    Associated Press43 mins ago

  • Why Malaysia Airlines jet might have disappeared

    NEW YORK (AP) — The most dangerous parts of a flight are takeoff and landing. Rarely do incidents happen when a plane is cruising seven miles (11 kilometers) above the earth.

    Associated Press

  • Interpol: passports on flights must be checked

    PARIS (AP) — Interpol knew about stolen passports that two passengers used to board an ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight bound for China, but no country checked the police agency's vast database on stolen documents beforehand, it said Sunday. Interpol said it hopes authorities will "learn from the tragedy."

    Associated Press34 mins ago

  • Suicide car bomb, attacks kill at least 42 in Iraq

    BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber set off his explosive-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint Sunday in southern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks that killed 42 people, officials said. The violence, which comes a few weeks before scheduled elections, is the latest by insurgents bent on destabilizing the country.

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  • PM: Won't budge '1 centimeter' from Ukrainian land

    KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — As separatists in Crimea kept up pressure for unification with Moscow, Ukraine on Sunday solemnly commemorated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its greatest poet, with the prime minister vowing not to give up "a single centimeter" of Ukrainian territory.

    Associated Press

  • Dozens injured as school stage falls in California

    ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A stage at a Southern California high school collapsed during a student event and dozens were rushed to hospitals with mainly minor injuries, authorities said.

    Associated Press

  • Jet may have turned; suspicious passengers checked

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — International intelligence agencies joined the investigation Sunday into two passengers who boarded the missing Boeing 777 jetliner with stolen passports, as Malaysian authorities said radar images showed the plane may have turned back before vanishing.

    Associated Press

  • Interpol: Database not checked pre-Malaysia flight

    PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Sunday that no country checked the police agency's database that held information about two stolen passports used to board an ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight.

    Associated Press

  • Libya threatens to bomb N.Korean ship over 'illegal' oil

    Benghazi (Libya) (AFP) - Libya threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker at an oil terminal held by militants in the restive east, saying it was being loaded illegally. Separatists blockading Al-Sidra facility attempted to load crude aboard the Morning Glory in the latest challenge to central government control. "The attorney general has given the order for the ship to be stopped," Prime Minister Ali Zeidan told a news conference. The self-proclaimed government of Cyrenaica in the east, the political wing of the separatists, said oil exports from Al-Sidra had now begun.

    AFP

  • Warning shots fired to turn monitors back from Crimea

    The mood darkened in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday after overnight confrontations between Russian troops and besieged Ukrainian soldiers raised tensions on the ground in the biggest East-West face-off since the Cold War.

    Reuters

  • Rand Paul wins again in conservative Republican poll

    Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky came out the favorite for the second straight year among Republican conservative activists voting for the candidate they would like to see in the White House next. Paul, a potential 2016 White House contender, won 31 percent in the annual straw poll taken at the Conservative Political Action Conference. His closest competitors were Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with 11 percent, and conservative neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 9 percent.

    Reuters

  • American dad passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines jet

    One of three Americans aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is a longtime IBM executive who raised his family in North Texas before moving to East Asia.

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