Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home yesterday to a country still searching for those onboard another doomed jet and a government battling the political fallout of both tragedies.

Firefighters uncovered ID cards and body fragments as they picked through wreckage for evidence to identify the victims of a plane crash that killed 48 people on a Taiwanese island.

Taiwanese researchers today said they had bred three small pigs with a fluorescent material in a move they hoped would benefit the island’s stem cell research effort.