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Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, looks on as retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, April 28, 2014. Abbott and Houston announced Monday that the underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor that may take up to eight months to thoroughly search. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES

Air search for missing Malaysian plane called off

Rod McGuirk · April 28, 2014 2:11 pm

Prime Minister Tony Abbott, left, looks on as retired Chief Air Marshall Angus Houston, the head of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, April 28, 2014. Abbott and Houston announced Monday that the underwater hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be expanded to include a massive swath of ocean floor that may take up to eight months to thoroughly search. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Lukas Coch) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVES

Missing plane’s search area to be expanded

Rod McGuirk · April 28, 2014 6:09 am

Bala Chandran Tharman, right, deputy chief of mission at the Malaysian embassy in Beijing walks away while relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines MH370 ask him a question during a briefing at a hotel in Beijing, China, Saturday, April 26, 2014. A number of Chinese relatives still aren't accepting the theory that the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean. They're insisting that Malaysian officials haven't told them the truth. The Chinese characters on the wall reads: "Meet the commitment." (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Robot sub to extend search area for missing plane

Rod McGuirk · April 27, 2014 3:05 am

A relative of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines MH370 wrapped in a blanket against the cold, waits for Malaysia embassy staff to meet their demands outside the Malaysia embassy in Beijing, China, Friday, April 25, 2014. Angry relatives who had been waiting for more than 8 hours in vain for a Malaysia embassy representative to attend their daily meeting marched to the Malaysia embassy and protested through the night. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Seabed search for missing Malaysian jet to widen

Rod McGuirk · April 25, 2014 12:50 pm

In this map provided on Wednesday, April 23, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will likely soon deploy more powerful sonar equipment that can delve deeper as the current search of the most likely crash site in the Indian Ocean has failed to yield any clues, Australia's defense minister said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Joint Agency Coordination Centre) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Material on Australian shore not from Malaysia jet

Rod McGuirk · April 24, 2014 12:23 am

Ground crew check the Malaysia Airlines flight MH192 bound for Bangalore that turned back towards and parked at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Monday, April 21, 2014, after its right landing gear malfunctioned upon takeoff. The airline says Flight 192 carrying 166 people landed safely at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport early Monday, four hours after it departed. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Australia signals deeper search for Malaysian jet

Rod McGuirk · April 23, 2014 6:02 am

Australia lifts F-35 order from 14 to 72 fighters

Rod McGuirk · April 23, 2014 4:58 am

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2013 file photo, Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott, right, with New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell speaks to the media in St. Marys, an outer suburb of Sydney, Australia during his election campaign. O'Farrell, the leader of Australia's most populous state, quit as premier on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 in the face of mounting evidence that he failed to declare a 3,000 Australian dollar ($2,800) bottle of wine that arrived as a gift on his Sydney doorstep. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australian state leader quits over $2,800 wine

Rod McGuirk · April 16, 2014 5:39 am

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, chats with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, left, at Perth International airport on April 3, 2014 in Perth, Australia as Razak prepares to depart Australia after his visit during the search of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The search continues off the Western Australian coast for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that vanished on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew on board. (AP Photo/Paul Kane, Pool)

2 nations leading jet search have turbulent past

Rod McGuirk · April 10, 2014 2:15 pm

Sgt. Matthew Falanga on board a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion, search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in southern Indian Ocean, Australia, Saturday, March 22, 2014. Frustration grew Saturday over the lack of progress tracking down two objects spotted by satellite that might be Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with a Malaysian official expressing worry that the search area will have to be widened if no trace of the plane is found. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool)

Time, uncertainty make plane hunt uniquely hard

Rod McGuirk · March 25, 2014 11:53 am

Australian lawmakers vote to relax Qantas rules

Rod McGuirk · March 5, 2014 10:45 pm

Australian missionary John Short, left, walks out from the airport terminal as he arrives at Beijing International Airport in Beijing, China, Monday, March 3, 2014. Short was deported from North Korea after he was detained for spreading Christianity in the country and apologized for his anti-state religious acts and requested forgiveness. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Missionary says North Korea interrogated him daily

Rod McGuirk · March 5, 2014 1:35 pm