Debris not part of missing Malaysia Airlines flight
Objects found in the Indian Ocean earlier in the week were not from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has confirmed. It is believed that the debris is from fishing boats.
Malaysia’s Defence and acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has confirmed that police and FBI inspections of the pilot of the missing flight’s homemade flight simulator have revealed “nothing sinister”.
Mr Hussein has said that the search will continue for “possible survivors.”
“No matter how remote the odds we will pray, hope against hope, and continue to search for possible survivors,” he said.
Abbott announces 100 days without a boat arrival
It has been 100 days since an asylum seeker boat has arrived on Australian shores, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced yesterday. However, high profile human rights lawyer Julian Burnside QC has spoken out against the Abbott government’s proclamation.
“We know that a number of boats have been intercepted and the people on board have been placed into orange life rafts and sent back,” Burnside told the AAP.
“If the message they’re getting across is that asylum seekers aren’t trying to get to Australia any more, the answer to that is yes, they’re misleading the public.”
Russian foreign minister: Russia has “no intention” of invading Ukraine
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lazarov has said that Russia has “no intention” of invading Kiev-controlled Ukraine. In an interview on Russian state television, Lazarov said that Russia has “absolutely no intention and no interests in crossing the Ukrainian border”. When discussing the current negotiations between Russia and the West, Lazarov said that Russia believes a federal system would be best for the Ukrainian state, giving each region a certain degree of autonomy.
Washington community on alert for second mudslide
The small rural community of Oso, Washington is on alert for a second mudslide, following concerns that wet weather and unstable ground could result in a repeat of last week’s natural disaster. The US Geological Survey has installed instruments such as ground-based laser systems to scan the region several times a day so that residents can be alerted as soon as a possible danger emerges.
US ‘psychic’ jailed following $1.2 million fraud
A US ‘psychic’ has been sentenced for three and a half years in prison after defrauding over $1.2 million dollars from clients, including a mentally ill man who was hearing voices. 36-year-old Cynthia Miller accumulated the wealth by telling clients that the money they gave her would be sacrificially burned or donated to charity. She will be expected to pay the money back in restitution for her victims.
Study: Daylight savings increases risk of heart attack
Turning the clock forward an hour to switch over to daylight saving time, increases a person’s risk of heart attack by 25 per cent, a US study has found. Researchers at the University of Colorado examined 42,000 hospital admissions for heart attacks, and found a significant increase in the number of admissions when regions were switching to daylight saving time.
In contrast, those of us turning back the clock and getting an extra hour of sleep with have 21 per cent less chance of experiencing a heart attack. However, It is unclear how applicable the research is to Australians, as the researchers analysed US data, where daylight saving changeover occurs on a Monday morning, not over the weekend.
New York considers building fake islands to protect coast from storms
New York and New Jersey officials are considering plans to build a string of fake islands off the regions coast, to act as a buffer against storm surges such as 2012’s Superstorm Sandy. The proposal, which would cost roughly $11 billion, would see fake islands constructed from central Long Island to the southern tip of Long Beach Island.
Cities across the globe switch out their lights for Earth Hour
Over 7000 cities have turned off their lights for one hour as part of the Australian climate change initiative, Earth Hour. Lights were switched off between 8:30 and 9:30pm in over 154 countries for the event, which began in Sydney in 2007.
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Exactly asylum seeker boats are coming in yet they are turning them around. Misleading information. It's the twisted way in which the Liberal party works.
They have no problem reporting favourable news about themselves yet when it's unfavourable - no comment.
So what you're saying is they are like every other political party.
Well, some have been turned around. No reports of drownings. This month first the time since 2008 the numbers have been flowing in reverse with hundreds choosing to voluntarily return to home once they understood they wouldn't get resettlement in Australia. Things heading in the right direction, camps emptying.
Abbott is cleaning up Labors utter mess on boats.
No Liberals have taken secretive information to the extreme. Transparent Government, as Abbott calls his party - my arse.
The government may have stopped drownings, but they have not yet started to actually help people. This whole, out of sight, out of mind mentality is a joke.