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.

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.

A sprawling undersea search area for a missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean could be extended further south based on new satellite analysis.

The search area for the missing Malaysian airliner in the southern Indian Ocean has been refined, based on the latest analysis.