If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said at the weekend.

Tensions between the UK and Argentina mounted today as a British oil rig began drilling off the Falkland Islands.

Bad weather is believed to have been the main cause of the crash today of an Airbus A310 plane in the Indian Ocean.