Malaysia Airlines Jet

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  Australia Says Stepping Up Hunt for MH370, Confident of Search Area

  Australia will step up search efforts in an area they believe holds the best hope of finding a missing Malaysia Airlines jet, whose disappearance last year sparked one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history, officials said on Thursday.

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  Wing Part May be Confirmed as From MH370 This Week: Australia

  Australia on Wednesday said official word on whether a washed-up plane part is from flight MH370 is expected this week, while reiterating it will continue hunting for the main debris field in the southern Indian Ocean.

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  Barack Obama Tells Dutch Royals US Committed to Jet Inquest

  US President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Dutch royals King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima to the White House, promising to help call to account those who shot down a Malaysia Airlines jet.

• Malaysia Airlines to Cut 6,000 Staff After Jet Disasters

  Malaysia Airlines will shed 6,000 workers as part of an overhaul to revive its damaged brand after being hit by double passenger jet disasters.

• Malaysia Airlines jet search area: Distant, dangerous, dazzling

  The scientists and support staff stationed on Amsterdam Island find professional value in being about as far away from the hubbub of humanity as it's possible to get. But this week, some of them wandered down to the southern Indian Ocean shoreline to look for the floating objects that could help explain the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

• Australian PM voices new hope of solving Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 mystery

  Australia raised hopes Sunday that the mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 could be solved after unidentified debris was spotted and China and Japan piled extra resources into the growing international search effort.

• Australia says possible debris from Malaysian jet may have sunk

  Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss said on Friday objects spotted on satellite images that sparked an international hunt in the remote southern Indian Ocean for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 may have sunk.

• British naval ship joins missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370 search

  A British naval ship has joined the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane after possible debris from the plane was spotted, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday.

• Missing flight's co-pilot was religious, not reckless: family

  Friends and family of the co-pilot who flew the missing Malaysia Airlines jet said the 27-year-old was religious and serious about his career, countering news reports suggesting he was a cockpit Romeo who was reckless on the job.

• Search for missing Malaysia Airlines jet homes in on Vietnam island

  Boats and aircraft searching for traces of a Malaysian jet that vanished with 239 people on board homed in on Monday on a remote Vietnamese island after possible debris was spotted floating nearby.

• Search planes scour sea for missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner

  Search and rescue planes scoured waters off the southern tip of Vietnam on Monday, searching for any trace of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner 48 hours after it vanished from radar screens with 239 people on board.

• Vietnam says cannot find object thought to be missing Malaysia Airlines jet door

  A Vietnamese official says searchers on ships worked throughout the night but could not find a rectangle object spotted on Sunday afternoon that was thought to be one of the doors of a missing Boeing 777.