1. MH370 – search has been in the wrong spot
Officials have confirmed that the Indian Ocean search area where “pings” were heard in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is not the final resting place of the lost Boeing 777.
A statement by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre in Perth said: “The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370.”
US Navy deputy director of ocean engineering Michael Dean said it now seems most likely that the “pings”, upon which so much of the recovery effort has relied, actually came from the search vessel itself.
Danica Weeks, whose husband Paul is one of the missing passengers, told Fairfax Media she was devastated by the news that the search area was being expanded. ”It just is another slap in the face. It’s just another long road for us and look, I’m just shattered by the news,” she said.
2. Girls gang-raped and hanged
Two teenage girls in India have been gang-raped and then found hanged from a tree in a village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
One man has been arrested while the police hunt for four other suspects.
The victim’s families say the girls were gang-raped and then hanged by five men from the village. They claim there was a conspiracy with the police protecting the girl’s killers.
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No 7 - interesting strategy by this man - not sure it will work for him going public about his actions. Seems he thinks having sex with highly intoxicated women = consent.
I feel terribly for the families of the missing people on MH370 but isn't it time the search was wrapped up? It's incredibly expensive and, at this point, is getting quite pointless if they're widening the search area again. I