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Saturday, March 22, 2014

More planes join search for missing Malaysian jet

Australian PM says there is "increasing hope" of a solution to mystery of Flight MH370.



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Crisis could spur air safety changes

Cameras in the cockpit. Real-time streaming of communications and flight information. Increased capacity flight data and voice recorders. Transponders that detach on impact and float.



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Ocean search has many challenges

Imagine searching the country of Belgium for three pieces of metal, the largest about the size of half a tennis court -- a moving tennis court.



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Death toll climbs in Venezuela protests

At least 31 people have died in Venezuela and 461 have been injured in violent clashes between opposition demonstrators and government forces that began last month, an official said Thursday.



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Hunting debris in sea of garbage

Two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared, one thing has been made clear: the ocean is full of garbage, literally.



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3 killed in Washington state landslide

A devastating landslide Saturday killed three people, cut off a small town and a river and prompted an evacuation notice for fear of a potentially "catastrophic flood event," authorities said.



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Mysterious fever virus sweeps Guinea

Since February 49 people have gotten sick and 29 have died from an unidentified illness characterized by fever, diarrhea and vomiting in Guinea, according to the West African nation's minister of health, Remy Lamah.



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