Search efforts have detected crashed Flight QZ 8501’s second and final black box containing the cockpit voice recorder, said Mardjono Siswosumarno

France will maintain its national security alert system Vigipirate at the highest level, which means definite threats, in greater Paris area in northern France, a French security official said on Saturday.

Thailand’s National Legislature Assembly (NLA) on January 9 began the first hearing of impeachment proceedings against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

A huge manhunt for the two suspected gunmen in Wednesday's deadly attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine has entered its third day

The crucial black box of crashed AirAsia plane QZ 8501 has not yet been found on January 8, the 12th day of the search campaign, the National Search and Rescue Agency of Indonesia (Basarnas) said.

A trial of a potential drug to treat Ebola has started at a Medecins Sans Frontieres centre in Liberia.

Recovery teams have made patchy progress in the search for bodies from the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 as efforts to reach the wreckage and black boxes beneath the sea became increasingly difficult.

Hundreds of firefighters were battling on Tuesday to contain Australia's worst wildfires in 30 years which have already swept across more than 12,000 hectares outside the southern city of Adelaide and destroyed at least 26 homes.

US crude and Brent futures dropped to fresh 5-1/2-year lows on Monday as worries about a surplus of global supplies amid weak demand continued to drag on oil markets.

Firefighters raced Monday to contain a major blaze before the forecast return of strong winds and a heatwave, following the loss of 26 homes in the worst bushfire conditions in South Australia for three decades.

Three more bodies of passengers on the AirAsia flight QZ8501 were found on January 4, raising the total recovered to 34 out of the 162 people on board.

Police in Italy believe traffickers made some $3m (£1.9m; €2.5m) from 359 illegal migrants found abandoned on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean.

Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet,

France's crash investigation agency said its specialist black box search team and equipment would arrive early Friday

Efforts to locate victims and wreckage of AirAsia flight QZ8501 which crashed into the Java Sea in Indonesia on Sunday are being hampered by stormy weather and strong tides.