A small Indonesian Navy aircraft crashed off Sumatra island after trying to make an emergency sea landing today, killing four officers and leaving three others missing, officials said.

AN Indonesian navy ship has detected metal on the ocean floor that may be the wreckage of a jetliner that disappeared one week ago with 102 people on board, a top officer said yesterday.

The Indonesian Navy is to buy six modern diesel submarines from Russia as part of an upgrading of its ageing military arsenal, the state news agency reported today.

AS FESTIVAL starts go, it doesn’t get much better, louder or more spectacular. Fog horns sounded, captain’s bells rang aloud and thousands of confetti-like blue and white shards of light plastic were catapulted into the air as Waterford marked a six-year wait for the official launch of the Tall Ships Race 2005.

The Indonesian navy was today searching for a boat reportedly hijacked by Middle Eastern refugees wanting to travel to Australia.