Friday 18 June, 2021
The 44-year-old man disappeared while snorkelling off Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly are not legally binding but they do carry political weight.
The International Court of Justice said in a legal opinion that Britain had illegally split the islands from Mauritius.
The two men were left waiting for help in a remote part of the Indian Ocean.
Ocean Infinity stood to make up to $70 million if the plane was found.
Madagascar has a history of plague outbreaks almost every year since 1980, often sparked by rats fleeing forest fires.
The Malaysia Airlines aircraft disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March, 2014.
The two pieces were found 220km apart in December and February.
At least 18 people have been attacked and seven have been killed since 2011.
Could it be from the doomed Malaysian Airlines flight?
It’s looking more and more like the debris is from the doomed airliner.
“We are confident we have the best search equipment .. if the plane is in the area we will find it.”
Today is the tenth anniversary of the devastating 2004 tsunami which hit thirteen countries from Africa to Thailand.
Australian researchers say it’s unlikely, but they’re investigating it.
A US Navy official queried whether the missing plane ever went there.
It has been forty days since the search began in the remote ocean off the Western Australian coast.
The cost of the ongoing search for flight MH370 is ‘not an issue’, Australia said.
Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said the search is at a “very critical juncture”.
It’s on its fifth seabed mission, and reached a record depth of 4,695 metres.
Four transmissions have been detected by an Australian ship from what is believed to be the plane’s black box.
Here are some of the key questions in the search so far…
More ships and planes were diverted to the area in the Indian Ocean today to investigate whether they could have come from the plane’s black box.
Despite extensive scouring ships and planes have so far found nothing that would indicate a crash site.
Aishah Zaharie is quoted by the paper as calling her father ‘disturbed’ but she claims the paper invented her words.
The pictures were taken by Thailand’s only earth observation satellite on Monday.
Two objects seen from a civil aircraft appeared to be rope, and that a New Zealand military plane spotted a blue object.
A woman and a young child have died after an overloaded boat carrying 95 asylum-seekers travelling to Australia sank in the Indian Ocean.
Thilafushi, an artificial island in the middle of the Maldives archipelago, is the dumping ground for Malé and luxury hotels.
Scientists have dubbed the slab ‘Mauritia’, as it was found under the island of Mauritius.
Rescue efforts have been called off with 77 people still missing after the sinking in the Indian Ocean.
The Giant’s Causeway was rightly spotlighted in this week’s Olympic torch relay – after you’ve visited the Antrim phenomenon, you should consider saving up to see one of these magical sites…
The earthquake was measured initially as 8.9 magnitude but has since been revised downwards to 8.6 as tsunami warnings were issued in over a dozen countries. Some have since been lifted.
So, er, where’s my suitcase?
The ship is part of the same fleet as the Costa Concordia which ran aground off the coast of Italy in January.
The quake struck around 220 miles off the coast of Sumatra, the province most devastated by the 2004 tsunami.
Director Jack Lloyd declares the race’s anti-piracy plan a success following delicate eight-hour operation.
When pirates cut all lines of communication on a hijacked vessel, the ship’s crew turned to more traditional methods to get their message out.
The ‘Naked Adventurer’, Keith Whelan, is forced to give up his attempt due to health concerns and damage to his boat.
