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Malaysia’s transport minister had said hours earlier that new debris, including window material and metal, had been collected.

“It has to be verified by the French authorities”, he said.

Searchers on Reunion Island have found additional pieces of debris that resemble airplane parts, which will be tested to see if they came from missing Malaysia Airlines’ Flight 370, Malaysia’s transport minister said. “I can only ascertain that it’s plane...

The transport minister also said investigators found further suspicious debris on the beaches of Reunion including what seemed to be a plane window and an aluminium foil.

After Malaysia confirmed a wing part found on Réunion Island was from MH370, some relatives of the missing passengers are still doubtful, thanks to a distrust of the government since the beginning of the search.

Evidence indicated that each of the victims was bound and tortured before being shot in the head, authorities said, adding that the wounds they sustained suggested they had resisted their attackers.

However, they note that MH370 was the only missing Boeing 777, and it was “highly” probable the wing belonged to the doomed airliner.

Most of those on board were Chinese.

Malaysian officials said they are reaching out to authorities in territories near Reunion Island to allow experts to conduct more substantive analysis should more debris surface.

People in Wales are less likely to have heard of pancreatic cancer than those living in other parts of the UK – despite having a higher chance of experiencing the disease, research has revealed.

A suitcase discovered near the debris will be studied at a criminal investigation laboratory in Pontoise, near the French capital, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Friday.

A team from Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, has found a “signature” in the urine based on three proteins that appears unique to pancreatic cancer. “This is a biomarker panel with good specificity and sensitivity and we’re hopeful...

Experts believed that the wreckage came from the Boeing 777, arguing that the code “657 BB” appearing in the debris picture corresponds to a manual code in the aircraft.

Technical experts, including from US aerospace giant Boeing, are due to begin today examining the debris in France to determine conclusively whether it belonged to the flight and new evidence could help Australia’s Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) narrow down the...

With the part established as belonging to a Boeing 777, the same model as Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, investigators at the specialized center Direction Generale de l’Armement Techniques Aeronautiques will be focused on linking the wreckage to the doomed aircraft.