Two oil slick sightings are first sign Malaysia Airlines plane may have crashed

Vietnamese air force planes have spotted two large oil slicks that authorities suspect are from a Malaysian jetliner that went missing early Saturday. A Vietnamese government statement says the slicks...

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Death toll rises to 11 in SW China minibus accident

Death toll rises to 11 after a minibus fell into a river in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Thursday, local authorities said Friday. The minibus crashed through the barriers on a bridge in...

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Zimbabwe: Repatriation of miners bodies from SA begins

Government have started repatriating 21 bodies of illegal miners who died at the Durban Deep mine in Roodepoort, South Africa on February 21 this year. Twenty-three Zimbabweans died in the abandoned...

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Exhumed bones from Franco period bring crimes of Spanish dictatorship back to surface

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...

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History's deadliest commercial jet crashes

The plight of 239 souls aboard Malaysia Airlines' Flight MH37 remained unresolved Saturday, after the aircraft went missing somewhere between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing, China. Whatever happened,...

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Desperate search for plane missing for 12 hours: Boeing 777 with 239 passengers on board vanishes over Vietnam

A major search and rescue operation is today underway after a Malaysian Airlines plane carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew disappeared off the coast of Vietnam, after losing contact with air traffic...

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