Fourteen people from a ferry that sank in Indonesia were picked up by a passing cargo ship after spending nine days on a life raft, a rescue official said today.

An hour after Adam Air Flight KI-574 took off on New Year’s Day with 102 passengers and crew for what should have been a short hop between Indonesian islands, the pilot reported heavy winds – then the plane disappeared.

Rescuers expanded their search for a missing plane to the sea today, after senior Indonesian officials mistakenly said yesterday that the Boeing 737’s charred wreckage had been found along with a dozen survivors.

Rescuers today found the smouldering wreckage of an Indonesian plane that crashed into mountains during a storm killing at least 90 people.

Officials said today that 90 people on board an Indonesian aeroplane which crashed yesterday were killed, while the remaining 12 on board survived.

An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people disappeared in stormy weather today, and rescue teams were sent to search an area where military aviation officials feared the Boeing 737-400 aircraft may have crashed.

A commercial Adam Air passenger plane lost contact with flight controllers today as it flew between Indonesia's Java and Sulawesi islands, the company's chief executive said.

A teenager has died of bird flu in eastern Indonesia, raising the country’s human toll from the disease to 47, the health minister said today, citing laboratory test results.

At least 36 people, many of them children, have been killed and dozens are missing after flooding and landslides in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked a 1,240-mile swathe of Indonesia for two minutes, sending panicked residents fleeing to higher ground, fearful of a tsunami.

An Indonesian court today sentenced the alleged mastermind of 2002 bombing of a McDonald’s restaurant to life in prison, saying the Islamic militant planned the attack that came just weeks after the Bali nightclub attacks.

A strong earthquake rocked parts of central Indonesia today, damaging several houses and injuring two people.

Indonesian police say they have arrested the alleged mastermind of the McDonald's bombing.

Indonesian police have arrested two more suspects in last week’s deadly bombings of a McDonald’s restaurant and a car dealership in south Sulawesi province, officers said.

Indonesian police investigating the bombings of a McDonald’s restaurant and a car dealership today said the group behind the blasts also planned to blow up a church over Christmas.

Explosions which killed three people at a McDonald's restaurant and a car dealership in Indonesia were caused by bombs.

Bombs ripped through a McDonald’s restaurant and a car showroom in eastern Indonesia today, killing one and injuring two.

Police fired tear gas to stop 300 Islamic students entering the grounds of Indonesia’s Parliament during an anti-US protest today, witnesses said.

Hundreds of Islamic students in Indonesia today demonstrated outside the US Embassy for the second day running in the world’s most populous Muslim nation against US-led attacks against Afghanistan.