Angry relatives of Chinese passengers aboard a Malaysia Airlines plane missing for more than a year clashed with police in Beijing as French officials extended the search for debris on remote Indian Ocean island beaches.

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.

Barnacles encrusted on plane debris that washed up on the French island of Reunion might unravel the mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared last year with 239 passengers and crew.

An object found on the French island of Reunion has been confirmed as “a domestic ladder” and is not a plane part, amid reports that a new piece of plane debris, possibly from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, was found on the island.

Malaysian authorities say that plane wreckage washed up on an Indian Ocean island is from a Boeing 777, meaning it is likely from missing flight MH370.

France’s top court has ruled that a law aimed at ending cockfighting is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by supporters of the tradition.

Investigators are working to identify whether a wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island came from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

A teenage girl has been killed by a shark as she snorkelled a few metres from the shore on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

A French honeymooner was attacked and killed by a shark while he was surfing not far from the beach on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, authorities said.

Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record as they flew heads down in a massive snowflake formation in northern Illinois.

France’s election race will pick up pace next week after being thrown off course by an Islamist gunman, with Nicolas Sarkozy unveiling his manifesto and opponents set to tear it apart.

The Costa Allegra’s captain said passengers had put on life vests and were ready to abandon ship as his crew fought a fire in the engine room that left the vessel adrift and powerless.

Sixteen-year-old Californian sailor Abby Sunderland has been reunited with her brother, after her solo around-the-world journey ended when her boat fell apart in an southern Ocean storm.

A French fishing vessel was steaming across the southern Indian Ocean today to reach an American teenager stranded after the mast on her yacht broke, ending her round-the-world record bid.

A 16-year-old girl trying to sail solo around the world was adrift in the southern Indian Ocean today awaiting rescue after 30ft waves wrecked her yacht.

DOUBTS over the safety of a Yemeni jetliner were at the forefront yesterday after an Airbus 310-300 carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came in for a landing during howling winds on the island nation of Comoros.

Bad weather is believed to have been the main cause of the crash today of an Airbus A310 plane in the Indian Ocean.

A toddler was rescued alive today from the wreckage of an airliner that crashed trying to land in the Comoros islands, police said.

A CULT leader jailed for sex attacks on children escaped in a helicopter from a prison on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion yesterday, the regional administration said.

Doctors suspect a French woman who recently returned from Turkey could have contracted bird flu, the Health Ministry reported today.

THERE will be no glamour tie against the French for the young U-12 Irish team at the Danone Nations Cup World Finals in Lyon, unless they make it through to the quarter-finals.

Europe’s new currency will not only become legal tender in the 12 eurozone nations tonight, it will also become a daily fact in former colonial outposts and small independent nations.