The Malaysian government has approved a new attempt to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean.

The game has been postponed for the third time for security reasons

Scientists have potentially narrowed the search area for the missing Malaysian airliner to three specific locations in the southern Indian Ocean, through new satellite and drift analysis of the 2014 crash released on Wednesday.

London is no stranger to massive construction projects, but the Battersea Power Station venture must surely rank as the most ambitious of recent times.

Two women accused of poisoning the half brother of North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un in an airport assassination are expected to plead not guilty in court on Friday, their lawyers said.

Malaysia has banned Despacito on state radio and television, though it might be hard to slow the song's record-breaking popularity.

North Korea said it was banning Malaysians from leaving the country as its diplomatic battle escalated dramatically over the poisoning death of Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader's estranged half brother.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the Malaysian ambassador has been labelled persona non grata and ordered to leave within 48 hours.

North Korea's ambassador to Malaysia faces a deadline to leave the country after authorities moved to expel him and accused Pyongyang of trying to manipulate the investigation into the poisoning of Kim Jong Nam.

North Korea has denied that its agents masterminded the assassination of the half-brother of leader Kim Jong Un, saying a Malaysian investigation into the death is full of "holes and contradictions".

A dispute over custody of the body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half-brother is raging between Malaysia and Pyongyang as inquiries continue into his apparent assassination.

A second woman has been arrested in connection with the killing of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un's half brother at a busy airport.

Graham Shaw has his sights set on World Cup qualification after his Ireland side cruised to a World League 2 title in Kuala Lumpur.

Francis Fukuyama looks at how the leaking of bad information is being used by those who would like to have authoritarian power at their fingertips.

Dutch-led criminal investigators say they have solid evidence that a Malaysian jet was shot down by a Buk missile moved into eastern Ukraine from Russia.

Malaysia has acknowledged for the first time that one of the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had plotted a course on his home flight simulator to the southern Indian Ocean, where the missing jet is believed to have crashed.

Data recovered from a home flight simulator owned by the captain of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 showed that someone had used the device to plot a course to the southern Indian Ocean — where the missing jet is believed to have crashed, Australian officials have said.

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has said he is hopeful that missing Flight 370 will still be found as politicians observed a moment of silence to mark the second anniversary of the plane’s disappearance.

Further recognition of Ireland’s ascension to world hockey’s top table came yesterday when Craig Fulton was named as the International Hockey Federation’s coach of the year.

Malaysia’s attorney-general has cleared the prime minister, Najib Razak, of any criminal offences or corruption, closing investigations into a murky, multi-million-dollar funding scandal that Najib’s opponents had hoped would bring him down.

Behind its strategic manipulations and sham alliance to tackle the likes of IS, a purported ally of the West’s official ideology forms the heart of the terrorist creed, writes Brahma Chellaney

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Craig Fulton believes Ireland’s qualification for the 2016 Olympics in Rio “will change the sport forever” here.

A new toll has put the number of pilgrims killed during the crush and stampede that struck the hajj last month at 2,110 at least.

Sponsorless, under-funded and waiting on others to decide their Olympic fate — yet the Irish men’s hockey team are one of the country’s most successful Irish national sides in any sport in 2015.

EuroHockey Championships semi-final: Netherlands 1, Ireland 0

Malaysia is sending a team of experts to the Maldives to examine whether a piece of debris washed up there is connected to missing flight MH370.

Malaysia is sending a team to the Maldives to inspect debris found washed up there.

Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a Malaysia Airlines plane missing for more than a year clashed with police in Beijing as French officials extended the search for debris on remote Indian Ocean island beaches.

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Chinese family members of passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines flight reacted with anger and scepticism yesterday after Malaysia’s government said a piece of wing debris found on an Indian Ocean island last week was from the plane.

An aircraft wing fragment washed ashore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion came from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared more than a year ago with 239 people aboard, according to experts.

Barnacles encrusted on plane debris that washed up on the French island of Reunion might unravel the mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared last year with 239 passengers and crew.

Three former Anglo Irish Bank executives have been sentenced jail; The Italian man who has admitted killing his landlord in Castleknock has been found not guilty by reason of insanity; Ryanair’s new cuddly image is paying off handsomely for its outspoken boss Michael O’Leary. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this evening.

A sea-crusted wing part washed up on an island in the western Indian Ocean may be the first trace of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it vanished nearly a year and a half ago, and a tragic but finally solid clue to one of aviation’s most perplexing and expensive mysteries.

Hockey: Ireland 4 Malaysia 1

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte says he supports moves to set up an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysian Airlines plane over Ukraine last year.

Ireland 1 Pakistan 0: Alan Sothern’s 46th-minute goal moved Ireland within touching distance of Olympic qualification as they saw off Pakistan 1-0 yesterday in Antwerp.

Malaysia has told the United Nations that it plans to submit a resolution that would establish an international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine.