Malaysia Airlines Passport Stolen

• Malaysia airline to check passports says Interpol head

  The head of the international police agency Interpol says a "major airline in Malaysia" soon will start checking travelers' passports against its global database of 40 million stolen or lost travel documents.

• Missing Malaysia Airline plane throws spotlight on passport theft

  When a German tourist refused to surrender his passport as collateral at a car rental stand along a popular beach in the Thai resort city of Phuket, the woman behind the counter pulled out a bag full of passport books to prove he could trust her.

• Terrorism cannot be ruled out in missing Malaysia Airlines jet: CIA

  The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency said on Tuesday that terrorism could not be ruled out in the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner.

• Interpol shows image of two Iranians on missing jet

  Interpol has released an image of two Iranians who were traveling with stolen passports on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner.

• Man with stolen passport on missing jet Iranian asylum seeker: police

  One of the two men traveling on a missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner was an Iranian asylum seekers, officials said on Tuesday

• Stolen passports probed in missing Malaysia Airlines plane mystery

  Authorities questioned travel agents on Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports, part of a growing international investigation into what they were doing on the flight.

• Thailand grapples with 'massive' fake passport racket

  With huge numbers of visitors and patchy law enforcement, Thailand has a booming black market for fake identity documents, and it was here that two passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet were apparently able to get hold of stolen passports.

• Men with stolen passports on Malaysia Airlines plane not of Asian appearance: investigator

  The two men who used stolen passports to board a Malaysian jetliner that went missing on Saturday were not of Asian appearance, the chief Malaysian investigator said on Monday.

• One person travelling on missing Malaysia Airlines with stolen passport identified: police

  Malaysia has identified one of two men who boarded the missing Malaysia Airlines flight with stolen passports, the country's police chief said on Monday.

• Suspect passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines jet had 'Asian features'

  Malaysia's interior minister said two passengers who used stolen passports to board a Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing with 239 people aboard had "Asian facial features", according to a report.