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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Malaysian request today that India help in the search for a missing airliner is for an area far to the northwest of the plane's last reported position. It's seen as a further sign that authorities have no idea where the plane might be more than four days after it vanished on a flight to Beijing with 239 people aboard.
GENEVA (AP) — The global airlines industry says rising jet fuel prices will impede 2014 profit, but it's still expected to be a record-breaking year. The International Air Transport Association, which represents 240 airlines, says the profit this year is expected to be $18.7 billion, a downgrade from the $19.7 billion it forecast in December. The old record is $17.3 billion, earned in 2010.
BERLIN (AP) — NATO surveillance aircraft are being careful to stay out of Russian and Ukrainian air space as they monitor the crisis in Kiev and the Crimea. The military alliance says two AWACS reconnaissance planes took off from bases in Germany and Britain but will stay over member nations Poland and Romania. The planes can observe 115,000 square miles.
JERUSALEM (AP) — A drive for reforms that has seen mass protests in Israel and beyond is one step closer to implementation. Israeli lawmakers passed a contentious law today meant to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military. The issue is at the heart of a cultural war in Israel where the ultra-Orthodox, about 8 percent of Israel's citizens, have largely been allowed to avoid military service in favor of religious studies.
LONDON (AP) — The British inventor of the World Wide Web wants to ignite a global conversation about the need to defend principles that have made the Web successful. Speaking on the 25th anniversary of his creation, Tim Berners-Lee tells the Guardian newspaper he wants a digital bill of rights to protect users from surveillance.
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