Misteri 90 saat sebelum transponder dimatikan

Petaling Jaya: Apa berlaku dalam tempoh 90 saat sebelum transponder MH370 dimatikan? Itulah persoalan yang timbul kerana transkrip komunikasi antara kokpit dengan Pusat Kawalan Udara (ATC) selepas tengah malam 8 Mac lalu, tidak menunjukkan sebarang keganjilan.

Tempoh komunikasi terakhir dari kokpit pada jam 1:19:29 hingga jam 1.21 pagi apabila transponder MH370 dilaporkan tidak lagi mengeluarkan isyarat, juga terus menjadi misteri. 

MH370: Lebih 50 waris penumpang hadiri taklimat DCA

PUTRAJAYA: Lebih 50 ahli keluarga penumpang pesawat Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) MH370 diberikan taklimat mengenai perkembangan terkini tragedi pesawat berkenaan di Hotel Everly di sini, sebentar tadi. 

Taklimat selama lebih tiga jam bermula jam 8.30 malam itu diberikan oleh Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam, Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, selain turut dihadiri Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Long See Wool dan pengurusan tertinggi MAS. 

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Spurs fans in the dock for shameful attack Read more: Spurs fans in the dock for shameful attack

LONDON: Mark Clattenburg has included the shameful scenes at the Emirates in his referee's report after Tottenham supporters showered Arsenal's Theo Walcott with coins.

The FA will examine video footage of the incident involving Walcott, who was pelted as he made an innocuous gesture indicating the score while being carried round the perimeter track.

Walcott, out for up to four weeks with a knee injury, was by the side of the pitch waiting for a stretcher when Spurs fans, angry at their team's 2-0 surrender, began hurling coins, a lighter, a water bottle and a bread roll at him.

The Arsenal forward, who will miss four league games and the FA Cup tie at home to Coventry if scans reveal strained knee ligaments, responded by smiling and raised two fingers to signal the score.

He is not expected to be charged with misconduct by the FA but they could charge both clubs with failing to control supporters following the distasteful incident.

According to those close to the incident, a minority of Tottenham supporters were chanting "let him die" as Walcott received treatment.

Walcott, who started the game up front because Olivier Giroud was ill and Nicklas Bendtner injured, took it all in good humour.

Arsenal have CCTV footage of the section, which housed 3,000 of the 5,000 visitors, but admit it will be a painstaking process to identify the missile-throwers so Spurs can deal with the culprits.

Last season Arsenal banned one of their own supporters after he threw a banana at then Spurs winger Gareth Bale at White Hart Lane on March 3.

Walcott's teammate Jack Wilshere was banned for a one-fingered insult aimed at Manchester City supporters during their 6-3 defeat at the Etihad Stadium last month. Wilshere reacted under intense provocation but was still punished by the FA.

Wilshere said: "Theo's a bit smarter than me, I suppose, but I think the Spurs fans were giving him a bit of stick.

"He'll be an Arsenal legend now. They were giving it to him and he's given a little bit back. People have got to look at it as banter. The Arsenal fans will love that. They love Theo and this is only going to help him."

Tottenham were put away when Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla finished off a lovely team move in the first half and Czech ace Tomas Rosicky netted for the first time this season after the break, seizing on a mistake by Danny Rose.

Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood was condemned after the defeat for playing a 4-4-2 formation, but he insisted that was not the case.

Sherwood, who has been knocked out of both domestic cups since taking over from Andre Villas-Boas, said: "We just had 11 players on the field and tried to rotate to fill up every area of the field. Manchester United have been playing 4-4-2 and won everything for the last 10 years.

"I don't think we ever had just two players in midfield. We showed we can mix it with the best team in the league. We weren't disgraced."

City boss keeps faith in injury plagued Jovetic

LONDON: Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini insists he has not lost faith in injury plagued Stevan Jovetic (pic), but admits his opinion could change by the end of the season.

The Montenegro forward arrived at the Etihad in a STG22 million (RM119 million) deal this summer, but has only managed five appearances after suffering a series of injuries and a bout of illness.

Pellegrini has admitted that he could begin to lose patience if the problems persist and has challenged the 24-year-old to prove his fitness during the second half of the season.

"It is very difficult to know with Jovetic," Pellegrini told the Sunday Mirror.

"But I believe what the player says and if he says he has a muscle problem I'm absolutely sure he has a muscle problem.

"We hope it was bad luck for the first part of the season and we can use him in the second half of the season because he is a very important player.

"It's impossible for the players to be 100 per cent for every game, but there are different degrees of injuries. I am optimistic.

"At the end of the season, maybe I change my opinion. But at the moment, I continue trusting him." Daily Mail

Syria rebels besiege Qaeda-linked jihadists

Syrian rebels laid siege to jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in their northern stronghold Monday, hoping to crush the Al-Qaeda affiliate accused of widespread abuses.

A broad coalition of moderates and Islamists opposed to President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to drive ISIL -- which is accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing rival rebels and civilians -- from its stronghold in the northern city of Raqa.

The new front in Syria's increasingly complex civil war opened less than three weeks away from a planned peace conference, for which the United Nations has started sending out invitations, excluding Assad's ally Iran.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in Raqa managed to free 50 Syrian prisoners held by the Sunni extremists, who are believed to be holding hundreds of prisoners, including foreign journalists.

Raqa is the only provincial capital lost by the regime since the conflict began in March 2011 with peaceful protests demanding democratic reform but escalated into a full-blown war when Assad's forces launched

a brutal crackdown on dissent.

The city later fell into the hands of ISIL, the latest incarnation of Al-Qaeda's Iraq affiliate, which joined the fight against the regime in late spring 2013.

The rebels initially welcomed the battle-hardened jihadists, but tensions mounted as ISIL was accused of imposing a reign of terror in areas where it operates, especially Raqa.

Three powerful rebel alliances on Friday launched what activists called a second "revolution," and have advanced quickly, expelling ISIL from checkpoints and bases across Aleppo, Idlib and Hama provinces.

The Observatory said the main group besieging ISIL's Raqa headquarters is Al-Nusra Front, which is also affiliated with Al-Qaeda but is seen as less extreme and has long competed with ISIL to represent the global terror network in Syria.

ISIL has struck back, including with a car bombing at a rebel checkpoint in Darkush, Idlib that killed an unknown number of fighters on Monday, the Britain-based Observatory said.

In Aleppo, a 16-year-old ISIL suicide attacker detonated himself at a rebel checkpoint, killing one opposition fighter and wounding several more.

A key complaint among the rebels fighting ISIL is that the self-styled Islamic state sought hegemony over areas under its control, while activists and rights groups accused it of torturing and killing its rivals, including with public executions.

On Monday, the body of a decapitated child was found near ISIL's headquarters in Kafranbel, Idlib, the Observatory said.

The rebel side also committed abuses, executing two ISIL fighters and burning one of their bodies in the Haydariyeh district of Aleppo, "in front of neighbourhood residents", the group added.

While many in the opposition welcomed the war on ISIL, some fear it threatens to distract from the battle with Assad's forces, which have continued to bombard rebel-held areas.

In rebel-held Bazaa in Aleppo province, an air raid killed 12 people including three children, the Observatory said.

It was the latest in a regime air campaign against Aleppo that killed some 550 people between December 15 and January 2, according to the monitoring group.

The Syrian conflict is estimated to have claimed more than 130,000 lives, and has forced millions more to flee their homes.

A security official in Damascus told AFP the fighting between the rebels and ISIL was "expected, and will become more violent".

UN leader Ban Ki-moon, meanwhile, started sending out invitations to the so-called Geneva 2 peace talks, but Assad's key ally Iran was not on the first list, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.

Iran brushed off the move, saying it would only accept an offer to participate that respected its "honour".

The decision may help pave the way for the opposition National Coalition, which has repeatedly stipulated Iran must not be invited, to participate.

The Coalition, which re-elected Ahmad Jarba as its leader on Sunday, will discuss Tuesday whether to attend the talks, although a key group -- the Syrian National Council -- has already announced its boycott.

The 30 countries invited to the Geneva talks include Saudi Arabia, a major backer of the Syrian opposition, as well as Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- the five UN Security Council permanent members -- and Syria's neighbours such as Turkey, Iraq and Jordan.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet on January 13 in a bid to decide Iran's role in ending the nearly three-year-old war, said UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq.

Tehran's role has been one of many obstacles that have bedeviled efforts by Ban and UN-Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to organize the conference.

The makeup of the Syrian opposition and governm

ent delegations has also called friction.

300 sick in Japan after eating contaminated food

More than 300 people across Japan have fallen ill after eating frozen food products contaminated with pesticide, reports said Tuesday.
Shoppers have reported vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms of food poisoning after eating food produced at a plant in Gunma, north of Tokyo, according to surveys carried out by the Asahi Shimbun and other local media.
The plant, run by a subsidiary of the nation's largest seafood firm Maruha Nichiro Holdings, is at the centre of the nation's latest food poisoning scandal.
Japanese police have launched an investigation into the company after it revealed last month that some of its frozen food products were tainted with malathion, an agricultural chemical often used to kill aphid in corn and rice fields.
According to local media, police suspect the pesticide was mixed into the products at the plant, which pro
duced frozen foods including pizza and lasagna.
Asahi Shimbun said it found the number of people who fell sick "exceeded 300", while national broadcaster NHK said Monday that 359 people had taken ill.
Maruha Nichiro said that it had received some 460,000 phone calls from consumers in connection with the incident, including complaints about sickening after eating the products, a company spokesman said.
Calls also included complaints about the unusual odour of some products and ways to return the products, the spokesman said.
The food maker had so far recovered some 1.2 million packages of potentially tainted products out of 6.4 million it wants to recall, he added.
Maruha Nichiro said that the products in question had not been shipped overseas.
The spokesman declined to comment on a possible impact of the incident on the company's earnings, only saying: "We have to specify the cause first."
While incidents of food poisoning have occurred in Japan, including in August 2012 when E. coli-contaminated cabbage killed seven people and sickened dozens, food standards are relatively high.
However, the country's reputation for safe and high quality food suffered a body-blow from the after-effects of the Fukushima atomic disaster, in which acres of farmland were polluted by nuclear fall-out.