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Surging river water kills five hikers in Taiwan AFP on June 6, 2016, 10:55 pm Taipei (AFP) - Surging waters triggered by torrential rain killed five people in Taiwan after they were swept away while hiking down a river canyon, officials said Monday. Dramatic footage from local media showed...

EgyptAir black box search zone narrowed AAP on June 2, 2016, 9:41 pm Search teams are zeroing in on the wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804 after a French vessel picked up a signal from one of the crashed jet's black boxes. An Egyptian source on the investigation committee told Reuters the search...

Signals detected from EgyptAir black box AFP on June 2, 2016, 4:05 am Cairo (AFP) - A French navy vessel using deep-water listening devices has detected signals from one of the black boxes that could explain why the EgyptAir plane crashed into the Mediterranean, investigators said Wednesday...

Japan rescuers expand forest search for missing boy AFP on May 30, 2016, 9:53 pm Tokyo (AFP) - Japanese rescuers scoured thick forest Monday in search of a seven-year-old boy whose parents left him in mountain woods inhabited by bears as a punishment, in a case that has infuriated the...

Private firm hired to hunt for EgyptAir black boxes AFP on May 29, 2016, 4:46 am Cairo (AFP) - Egypt has hired a private firm to help find EgyptAir MS804's black boxes in an area narrowed down by an emergency signal sent when it hit the Mediterranean last week. The Egyptian-led...

Breakthrough in search for EgyptAir plane as 'signals detected' near crash site Yahoo and Agencies on May 27, 2016, 7:47 am U.S. Navy LT. JG Dylon Porlas uses binoculars to look through the window of a U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion patrol aircraft from Sicily on Sunday, searching the area in...

Deep-water search for EgyptAir black boxes to start 'in coming days': France's BEA AFP on May 27, 2016, 7:47 am Paris (AFP) - Deep-water search operations to locate the wreckage and black boxes of the EgyptAir jet that plunged into the Mediterranean last week will start in the coming days...

EgyptAir victims' relatives give samples for DNA tests AFP on May 24, 2016, 11:31 pm Cairo (AFP) - Egyptian forensics officials collected DNA Tuesday from relatives of EgyptAir Flight MS804 victims to help identify body parts retrieved from the Mediterranean, where the crash killed 66...

Robot sub in hunt for EgyptAir black boxes AP on May 23, 2016, 7:27 pm Egypt has sent a submarine to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, as more debris has been spotted. The US Navy's Sixth Fleet...

'No theories ruled out' on EgyptAir crash after smoke report AFP on May 21, 2016, 9:15 pm Video EgyptAir Flight 804 Sent Data Suggesting Smoke, Fire Before Disappearance Share Tweet Email Paris (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Saturday that no theory on the cause of...

Images emerge of EgyptAir plane debris By Scott D'Arcy - AAP on May 21, 2016, 9:49 pm New images have emerged of shattered parts of the EgyptAir plane recovered from the crash site in the Mediterranean. The Egyptian military released photographs of the debris including fragments of seats...

EgyptAir crash: What we know AFP on May 21, 2016, 11:28 pm Paris (AFP) - French experts confirmed Saturday that smoke had been detected in the cabin of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the eastern Mediterranean carrying 66 people, but what brought it down remains a mystery. Here is what...

Smoke doesn't reveal what caused EgyptAir crash, experts say AFP on May 22, 2016, 1:08 am Paris (AFP) - Smoke detected in the cabin shortly before EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed into the Mediterranean suggests there was a fire on board, but is not enough to establish the cause of the...

'Smoke on board' EgyptAir plane before crash AFP on May 22, 2016, 1:47 am Cairo (AFP) - Smoke was detected inside an EgyptAir plane shortly before it plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board, investigators said Saturday, offering clues but no answers about why it crashed. The...

US EgyptAir image 'shows no sign of blast' AAP on May 20, 2016, 6:58 am The last known location of EgyptAir flight MS804. Picture: FlightRadar24.com A US review of satellite imagery so far has not produced any signs of an explosion aboard the EgyptAir flight that crashed en route from Paris...

EgyptAir crash: What we know AFP on May 20, 2016, 3:03 am Paris (AFP) - Thursday's crash of an EgyptAir passenger plane near a Greek island en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard remains unexplained. This is what is known so far: - The Airbus A320 was in Eritrea, Egypt, Tunisia...

The disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804: a timeline AFP on May 20, 2016, 3:30 am Cairo (AFP) - Below is a timeline of the main developments since an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo crashed into the sea on Thursday with 66 people aboard. All times are GMT, except where stated. - 0029...

Man sentenced to 2,350 years for sexually assaulting daughters Central News Agency 2016-05-16 09:20 PM A man in Yunlin County has received prison sentences amounting to 2,350 years for molesting or raping his three daughters a total of 306 times within six years, beginning in 2008. The...

Iran arrests eight in crackdown on Instagram modelling AFP on May 16, 2016, 6:40 pm Tehran (AFP) - Iran has arrested eight people for working in "un-Islamic" online modelling networks, particularly on Instagram, the head of Tehran's cybercrimes court said on state television. The arrests...

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