MH370: Debris found

MH370: Debris found in Maldives not from missing flight, Malaysia's transport minister says

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A Malaysian team inspecting debris that washed up in the Maldives has so far found nothing that came from missing flight MH370, Malaysia's transport minister says, as Reunion island officials prepare to wrap up their search.

Malaysia sent experts to the Maldives this week to check on reported debris found on the coral atoll nation after a wing part from the ill-fated plane was found on Reunion island in the Indian Ocean.

Transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said his team had examined the Maldives debris and found no connection.

"They are not related to MH370 and not even plane material," he told The Star newspaper.

Mr Liow said the investigators would continue to examine any further unidentified flotsam found on the Maldives for links to the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777, which disappeared in March last year.

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Bus Driver Tells Migrants

Bus Driver Tells Migrants 'You're Welcome'

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A German bus driver who used his rusty high-school English to welcome refugees has been praised after his speech went viral.

Sven Latteyer thought the 15 asylum seekers who boarded his bus in the city of Erlangen seemed in need of cheering up, perhaps feeling a bit lost in a new country, he told thelocal.de.

Mr Latteyer, who is reported to be 42, said he managed to string together a few sentences in English, saying: "I have an important message for all people from the whole world in this bus: I want to say welcome.

"Welcome to Germany, welcome to my country. Have a nice day!"

One passenger posted about the moment on Facebook, where thousands of people read how the speech was granted with "incredulous looks, then all laughing and clapping, the whole bus, including the Germans" and "one of the African boys wiped a little tear from his eyes".

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Lord Janner in court

Lord Janner expected in court on child sex abuse charges

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Lord Janner is expected to appear in court to face child sex abuse charges after his lawyers lost a High Court bid to prevent him having to attend.

The 87-year-old, who has dementia, is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court later after judges ruled it was in the "public interest" for him to be there.

The ex-MP's lawyers had argued it was "barbaric, inhumane and uncivilised" to force him as he was too ill.

He denies 22 charges of child sex abuse spanning the 1960s to the 1980s.

If the peer does not attend the brief hearing, he could be arrested - or prosecutors could ask the High Court for a voluntary bill of indictment to allow the case to proceed in his absence.

Lord Janner's lawyers had argued he had "virtually no language left at all"  and was likely to have a "catastrophic reaction" if he attended court. 

But they said they were not planning to appeal the ruling.

The judges said the public interest outweighed any personal distress he might experience, and any distress would be "of short duration".

Who is Lord Janner?

• Greville Janner was born in Cardiff in 1928
• Served in the Army and studied at Cambridge before becoming a barrister and then QC
• Labour MP for Leicester North West and then Leicester West from 1970 until retiring in 1997, when he was made a life peer
• Served as president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
• Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009
• Suspended from the Labour Party but will remain a member of the House of Lords until his death or until he retires
• Described by his family as a man of "great integrity" and "entirely innocent of any wrongdoing"

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China explosions still burning

China explosions: Fires still burning after Tianjin blasts

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Fires are still burning at the site of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, some 36 hours after the blasts.

A team of military chemical experts is testing for toxic gases at the scene and rescuers have been ordered to wear protective clothing, state media said.

At least 50 people died and hundreds were injured, 71 critically, in the explosions on Wednesday evening.

Meanwhile, search teams found a survivor in the debris on Friday.

The survivor was named as 19-year-old firefighter Zhou Ti, state-run news agency Xinhua said.

Officials said earlier that 17 firefighters were among the dead and China's Ministry of Public Security added that, as of Thursday afternoon, 18 others were still missing.

Tianjin's fire chief Zhou Tian told reporters on Friday that more than 1,020 firefighters and 140 fire engines were still battling flames at the scene.

Fire crews were already at the scene when the explosions took place, having been called to reports of a container fire.

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