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.

Vietnam says it has downgraded its search for the missing airliner in the South China Sea and has been asked by Malaysian authorities to consider sending planes and ships to the Strait to Malacca.

Satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, China’s Xinhua News Agency has said.

Malaysian authorities have defended their handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 – even as they acknowledged they are unsure which direction the plane was travelling in when it disappeared.

The Malaysian military claims it has radar evidence showing that the missing Boeing 777 plane changed course and made it to the Malacca Strait.

Two men travelling with stolen passports on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane were Iranians who had bought tickets to Europe and were probably not terrorists, according to officials.

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

An oil spill that has hit a tourist island in the Gulf of Thailand has spread to nearby smaller isles as workers race to clean up the once-white sands and clear waters.

A newlywed Sligo man based in Boston has died in a construction site accident in New York.

A Corkman has drowned in a diving accident at the island of Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand.

IN Cambodia, we met our son and his girlfriend, fresh from their two-day voyage on a slow boat down the Mekong from north Thailand into Laos, and cheerful despite their 20-hour bus journey to meet us at Siem Reap.

The nationwide death toll from flooding in Thailand has climbed past 500, as the polluted black water continues its march through parts of the capital.

Thailand’s prime minister says she is optimistic the country’s worst flooding in a half-century will mostly spare Bangkok, as some dykes overflowed but the capital’s defences otherwise held firm during critical high tides.

The complex network of flood defences erected to shield Thailand’s capital from the country’s worst floods in nearly 60 years was put to the test today as coastal high tides hit their peak but no major breaches were reported.

The main river coursing through Thailand’s capital swelled to record highs today amid fears that flood defences could break and swamp the heart of the city.

Tens of thousands of Thais are fleeing flood-threatened Bangkok after as the city’s governor ordered official evacuations for the first time since the crisis began.

The death toll from Thailand’s catastrophic flooding rose to 366 today.

Barriers protecting Bangkok from Thailand’s worst floods in half a century held firm today as the government said some of the floodwater north of the capital has begun receding.

Beside a wall of white sandbags that has become a front line in Thailand's battle to prevent an epic season of monsoon floods from reaching Bangkok, needlefish swim through knee-high water inside Sawat Taengon's home.

Thailand's prime minister is warning that rising floodwaters which have wreaked havoc across the nation are now threatening the capital, Bangkok.

FORTY-TWO people were injured after two boats carrying Thai and foreign tourists collided in the Gulf of Thailand near an island famed for its wild parties, police said yesterday.

A TRAIN derailed during heavy rains yesterday near Thailand’s coastal city of Hua Hin, killing seven people, including a two-year-old, and injuring 88 others, officials said.

At least eight people - all of them Thais - were reported to have been killed and 54 others injured today, when a train derailed during heavy rains near a popular seaside resort in central Thailand.

AN airliner crashed into the control tower after landing on the Thai holiday island of Samui yesterday, killing the pilot.

An airliner crashed into the control tower after landing on the Thai holiday island of Samui today, killing the pilot.

An aeroplane crashed into an air traffic control tower today after landing on the popular Thai resort island of Samui, an airport official said.

International aid began to trickle into Burma, but the stricken Irrawaddy delta, the nation’s rice bowl where 22,000 people perished and twice as many are missing, remained cut off from the world.

POLICE in Thailand are investigating the death of a young Irish woman whose body was found washed up on a beach in one of the country’s holiday resorts.

THE typhoon that ravaged the Philippines with landslides and torrential rain slammed into Vietnam’s southern coast yesterday as a tropical storm, killing at least 50 people and destroying thousands of homes.

Tropical Storm Durian has slammed into Vietnam’s southern coast, killing at least 47 people, injuring more than 300 and destroying thousands of houses, officials said today.

A Thai court today convicted two Thai fishermen for raping and murdering a British tourist at a Thai beach resort and sentenced them to death.

Two Thai fishermen arrested for the rape and premeditated murder of a British tourist earlier this month on the southern resort island of Koh Samui pleaded guilty on both charges today when charged in court.

Investigators trying to identify the killer of a British woman found murdered on a beach in southern Thailand today started taking DNA samples from fisherman on boats near the beach where her mobile phone was found.

Rescue workers today recovered the body of an Australian tourist from the sea near the southern Thai resort island of Koh Samui, ending a search for those missing after a speedboat capsized earlier this week.

An overcrowded boat carrying revellers from a beach party capsized last night in the Gulf of Thailand, killing at least seven people.

A WESTERNER who died when he jumped out of a plane over the Gulf of Thailand was an Italian pilot who apparently committed suicide to avoid suffering the final stages of leukaemia, police said yesterday.

A Westerner who died when he jumped out of a plane over the Gulf of Thailand was an Italian pilot who apparently committed suicide to avoid suffering the final stages of leukaemia, police said today.

Thai navy personnel are struggling to clean up a 200,000-litre oil slick that threatens to pollute a popular island beach resort in eastern Thailand.