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Multiple news organizations are reporting Friday night that investigators have decided that one or more people with significant flying experience hijacked the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, switched off communication devices and steered it off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation told the Associated Press.

Sea survivor Jose Salvador Alvarenga, center, embraces his mother Maria Julia, after they arrive at the airport in Mexico City, Friday, March 14, 2014.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia a?? The leader of an opposition party here on Friday described his government's handling of the missing plane crisis as "incompetent" and "inept."

Washington and the international community won't recognize the outcome of Sunday's referendum in Crimea on seceding from Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday after six hours of talks with Russia's foreign minister.

Broken promises of help from the West. A tragic history of Russian invasion that goes back centuries.

Iraqi officials say a string of bombings has targeted marketplaces and a commercial area in the capital, Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding 26. Police officials say the deadliest attack took place inside a market in the Shula district in northwestern Baghdad where a bomb went off on Friday morning, killing five people and wounding ... (more)

In this Tuesday, March 4, 2014 photo, Shoichi Sato, president of Kamaishi Hikari Foods Co., Ltd. speaks about the 2011 tsunami that hit the area in Toni, northeastern Japan.

One person was shot dead after a knife attack that left at least three people dead in a Chinese market Friday, state media said, in the second such attack in two weeks.

Honduran authorities say they have dismantled a criminal ring involving a U.S. man already jailed in Miami and two Honduran citizens who forced girls to become prostitutes and pose naked for pornography.

Even while the exact cause remains unknown, a deadly blast that levelled two Manhattan buildings served by a 127-year-old gas main has provided a jarring reminder of just how old and vulnerable much of the infrastructure is in New York and many other cities nationwide.

A journalist on trial in Britain's phone hacking scandal testified Thursday that Princess Diana provided him with information on the royals, including a phone directory, as part of her feud with her estranged husband, Prince Charles.

After weeks of speculation that Drake and Rihanna are hooking up again there appears to be confirmation that the rumors may be true.

This Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 photo shows visitors and exhibitors stand in front of a halal food company stand during a halal food exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Mini-vans emblazoned with election slogans belt out patriotic songs. A World War II bunker has become a drop-off point for people to donate blankets and canned food for armed militiamen who patrol the streets.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that Russia risked "massive" political and economic damage if it refused to change course on Ukraine.

Planes sent Thursday to check the spot where Chinese satellite images showed possible debris from the missing Malaysian jetliner found nothing, Malaysia's civil aviation chief said, deflating the latest tantalizing lead in the six-day hunt.

A big logo created from pictures of Facebook users worldwide is pictured in the company's Data Center, its first outside the US on November 7, 2013 in Lulea, in Swedish Lapland.

A university student, a National Guard captain and a third man were shot to death in separate incidents Wednesday as anti-government protests roiled the central Venezuelan city of Valencia.

Militants in the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets Wednesday into southern Israel, sending civilians rushing into bomb shelters but causing no casualties.

In this June 18, 1999 file photo, Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter" holds a nine-foot female alligator accompanied by his American wife Terri, who is from Eugene, Oregon, at his "Australia Zoo" in Beerwah, Queensland, Australia.