Good Morning Australia!- Families are frustrated over mixed signals coming from the MH370 investigation - Secrets are revealed as glaciers are reduced by Global Warming - A stupid nazi blows himself up before he could do harm to others - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Malaysian's transport minister claims that more aircraft debris has been found on Reunion Island in the western Indian Ocean, where the wing flaperon from missing malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 washed up. "We have also found debris like window panes, aluminium foil and seat cushions," said Liow Tiong Lai, emphasizing the bits came from an airplane. There has been no independent scientific confirmation of that. In fact, French investigators are hedging their words in identifying the flaperon as part of the Boeing 777 that disappeared in March of last year, saying only saying a link was highly likely. To be fair, there's only one missing Boeing 777 in the world - MH370, so it's not like the chunk could have come from anywhere else. The mixed signals - confirmation from Malaysia, caution from France - are not sitting well in China, where the families of the missing are demanding concrete answers.
Authorities now fear more than 200 people might have drowned in this week's capsizing of an immigrant ship in the Mediterranean.
Egypt opened a major expansion of the Suez Canal - a 35 kilometer parallel channel that will increase shipping by allowing two way traffic between the Red and Mediterranean Seas. Although banners proclaimed it Egypt's "Gift to the World", nothing comes for free - Cairo is clearly hoping for more revenue from ships paying to traverse the strategically important passage.
An ordnance from last year's Gaza War exploded, killing four people and leaving more than 40 injured. This happened near the ruins of a home that was flattened in the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, which acknowledged that one of the dead is a member of its militant wing. That - and the fact that the al-Qassam Brigade immediately blocked off access to the entire block - are leading to speculation that there may have been more Hamas explosives stored under the rubble. Israel has frequently accused Hamas of hiding its bombs and weapons beneath civilian homes.
A statement, purportedly from Islamic State, claims to take responsibility for a suicide bombing at a mosque in Saudi Arabia. At least 15 people were killed in the blast at the Shiite mosque in in Abha, the capital of Asir province.
US Police investigating the explosion that blew a man's leg off in upstate New York found that the man's home was packed with white supremecist, ku klux klan, nazi, and other racist materials. 45-year old Michael O'Neill was immediately detained in hospital when investigators realized he was manufacturing bombs in his garage for some nefarious purpose. Neighbors say he rarely socialized, and was working in that garage at all hours. Federal Prosecutor John Alsup said that O'Neill isn't going to be released anytime soon: "He is no longer at large in the community - with or without some of the physical disabilities he’s going to have going forward. But luckily for the community, he only hurt himself," said Alsup.
Three ministers quit Haiti's government after incredibly stupid comments from President Michel Martelly, who told a woman at a campaign rally: "Go get a man and go into the bushes." In Martelly' defense .. oh wait there is no defense for that, what an idiot. The Women's, Social, and an Education ministers all quit. They're all members of the governing coalition's Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats party, whose leader Edmonde Supplice Beauzile called on voters to punish Martelly's Repons Peyizon party in Sunday's legislative elections.
The melting glacier at the base of the Matterhorn in Switzerland gave up the bodies of two Japanese climbers who went missing almost exactly 45 years ago. Michio Oikawa and Masayuki Kobayashi were 22- and 21-years old, respectively, when they were last seen on the famed mountain on 18 August, 1970. As the undeniable reality of Global Warming melts glaciers around the world, bodies of the missing are appearing. Last year, the remains of British climber Jonathan Conville were found near the summit. He disappeared on the mountain in 1979. Earlier this week, the World Glacier Monitoring Service says that glacier ice has melted to the lowest levels since record-keeping began more than 120 years ago.
Everyone loves Baby Slothes! At Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.