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.

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.

Malaysia’s prime minister says he has ordered the navy and the coastguard to comb the sea for thousands of stranded migrants.

An official report a year after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has done little to solve the mystery of the missing Boeing 777, aviation experts have concluded.

Amid controversy, confusion and threats, Sony released The Interview online in an unprecedented response to hackers who spoiled the Christmas opening of the comedy depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak says that the leader of the pro-Russian rebels has agreed to hand over both black boxes from Flight 17 to Malaysian investigators who are in Ukraine.

Up to 80 children were feared to be among the 295 passengers and crew who died after the Malaysian Airways plane was shot down over Ukraine yesterday afternoon.

Malaysia’s prime minister says the downed passenger jet did not make any distress call before it crashed, and that the flight route was declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organization.

The family of British backpacker Gareth Huntley, who was found dead in the Malaysian jungle, said “no words can describe the void he will leave” and they were “deeply touched” by the efforts to find him.

A call by Malaysia’s prime minister for the UN’s aviation agency to require real-time tracking of aircraft could create a market worth billions, write Alwyn Scott and Allison Martell

A new theory being investigated is that the food was poisoned on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Malaysia’s prime minister has said the search for the missing airliner will not stop until answers are found, as his Australian counterpart called it “the most difficult in human history”.

Malaysia’s prime minister has arrived at the Australian air force base serving as a hub for the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

A cluster of orange objects spotted by a search plane hunting for any trace of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet turned out to be nothing more than fishing equipment, Australian officials have said.

Australia’s prime minister said yesterday that he was hopeful clues will emerge soon to help find Flight 370 though searchers again failed to find jet debris.

Several dozen Chinese relatives of passengers on Flight MH370 have demanded that Malaysia apologise for its handling of the search for the missing plane and for the prime minister’s statement saying it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean.

China demanded yesterday that Malaysia turn over the satellite data used to conclude that a Malaysia Airlines jetliner had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, killing 239.

Malaysia says it has narrowed the search area for a downed airliner by 80% in the southern Indian Ocean, while Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for possible debris from the plane to resume.

China has demanded that Malaysia turn over satellite data it used to conclude that a passenger jet was lost in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors during a flight to Beijing.

Relatives of flight MH370’s passengers and crew have been told that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, leaving no survivors.

With the exact location of Flight 370 still unknown, profound questions remain about what brought down the aircraft and why.

Relatives shrieked and sobbed uncontrollably, men and women nearly collapsed, held up by loved ones, as their grief came pouring out after 17 days of waiting for definitive word on the fate of the missing Malaysia jetliner.

The Malaysian Prime Minister said authorities searching for missing flight MH370 have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that the plane has been lost, with no survivors.

Authorities looking into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane are focusing on a flight engineer.

Australia took the lead in searching for the missing Boeing 777 over the southern Indian Ocean today.

The missing Malaysian airliner was deliberately diverted and continued flying for more than six hours after losing contact with the ground, Malaysia’s leader said.

Vietnamese air force planes have spotted two large oil slicks that authorities suspect are from a Malaysian jetliner that went missing early on Saturday.

Malaysia’s governing coalition won national elections yesterday to extend its 56 years of unbroken rule.

About 45,000 people joined a massive opposition rally today in Malaysia’s largest city in a show of force ahead of key general elections due in months.

Malaysia’s leader has warned voters that their country risks economic collapse if the opposition wins national elections that must be held by mid-2013.

Muslim rebels and the Philippine government overcame decades of bitter hostilities and took their first tentative step towards ending one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies today.

About 200 Muslim rebels led by their elusive chief have arrived in the Philippine capital for the signing of a preliminary peace pact aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies.

The Duchess of Cambridge confessed tonight that she had been “nervous” about giving her first speech on foreign soil.

Malaysian police have shot two people swinging samurai swords and smashing cars outside prime minister Najib Razak’s office, killing one and wounding the other.

Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water today at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysia’s largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon.

An 84-year-old Malaysian state sultan has been sworn in as the country’s new king.

Police fired tear gas and detained hundreds of activists as more than 10,000 demonstrators massed across Malaysia’s largest city demanding electoral reforms in the country’s biggest political rally in years.

Malaysia's top court rejected a bid by the opposition to challenge the federal government's takeover of a key northern state.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday told Burma’s junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face interaction with a top leader of the ruling military.

A centenarian from Malaysia is hoping to marry for the 23rd time to overcome her loneliness after her current husband was admitted into a drug rehabilitation programme.

Malaysia’s prime minister urged a woman scheduled to be caned for drinking beer to appeal against the sentence.

Police broke up Malaysia’s biggest street protest in nearly two years today, firing tear gas and chemical-laced water at thousands of opposition supporters demanding an end to a law that allows detention without trial.

Riot police fired tear gas in a clash with at least 10,000 opposition supporters who marched in Malaysia’s main city today to protest at a law allowing detention without trial.