Rescuers are continuing their search for a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared with 239 people on board as Malaysia’s civil aviation chief said investigators were looking at “every angle”.

A suspected football match-fixer has been arrested after landing in Milan on a flight from Singapore, Italian police said.

The international police organisation Interpol today said it had issued an international wanted persons notice for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, who is wanted in several countries for terror attacks.