Australia

Amateur footage captures the Cirrus light aircraft deploying the chute at 4,000ft before landing in the front yard of a house in Australia’s Blue Mountains. No one was injured.

The Australian prime minister says a “new phase” of searching will begin, looking at a wider part of the Indian Ocean floor. But it may take up to eight months to find any sign of the missing plane.

The crew of a Royal Navy ship are “working 24/7” to hunt for flight recorders from the missing Malaysian plane, their commander says.

Australian prime minister Tony Abbott says he is “confident” that a signal heard on Thursday has come from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Australian officials have detected two new signals in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 but time is running out as the batteries in on flight black boxes are expected to fail soon.

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is fighting a “serious” infection in a hospital in Sydney and is unlikely to race competitively again.

Signals picked up by a ship searching for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are consistent with aircraft flight recorders, Australian officials say.

Chinese and Australian search teams are scouring the vast Indian Ocean trying to verify if any one of three acoustic signals detected could have been from flight MH370’s black boxes.

Crews launch a targeted underwater hunt for the black box belonging to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 – but have just a few days left before the device’s batteries are expected to run out.

The recovery teams are quickly losing their best opportunity to find the plane. They have to find what is left of it to have any chance of understanding what really happened.

Thai satellite images pick up images of 300 floating objects in the southern Indian Ocean during a search for the missing Malaysian airliner.

French satellite images reveal 122 objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from the missing Malaysian airliner.

Investigators searching for Malaysia Airline’s flight MH370 say they have “no corroboration yet” that two objects spotted in the Indian Ocean have come from the missing plane.