PARIS. France's aviation safety agency said Saturday that the EgyptAir A320 that crashed into the eastern Mediterranean with 66 people on board had transmitted automatic messages indicating smoke in the cabin. "There were ACARS messages emitted by the plane indicating that there was smoke in the cabin shortly before data transmission broke off," a spokesman of France's Bureau of Investigations and Analysis told AFP... ....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama departed Saturday on a weeklong, 16,000-mile trip to Asia, part of his effort to pay more attention to the region and boost economic and security cooperation. He'll spend three days in Vietnam, with stops in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, for meetings with leaders, a speech on U.S.-Vietnam relations, visits to cultural treasures and sessions with civic leaders and entrepreneurs ... ....
Chittagong // Cyclone Roanu killed 23 people in Bangladesh on Saturday and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes amid strong winds and heavy downpours. Authorities took more than 500,000 people into shelters as the cyclone made landfall just after noon, packing winds of up to 88 kilometres per hour ... "Thousands of villagers were forced to flee their homes after the storm surge flooded their villages," he said....
Kansas City, Kan. • The Real Salt Lake starting lineup Saturday featured the club’s preferred center back pairing for the first time this month. Aaron Maund returned to the field after missing the past three weeks with a hamstring strain. He stood alongside Justen Glad, who walked into a comfort zone Saturday ... Left back Demar Phillips wa... ....
Kansas City, Kan. • For the second time this season, Real Salt Lake used its rival’s home venue to snap a streak. RSL scored three times in a 21-minute segment to upend Sporting Kansas City 3-1 on Saturday. It is unbeaten against Sporting KC over the past six meetings. In April, it claimed its first victory at Children’s MercyPark. On Saturday, it put an end to a 231-minute scoring drought — then it added a couple more for good measure ... ....
Mount Sinabung in North Sumatraprovince blasted volcanic ash as high as 3km kilometeres into the sky ... Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province blasted volcanic ash as high as 3km into the sky, said NationalDisaster ManagementAgency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho ... Related ... ....
Pakistan's top anti-graft official shave recovered a fresh haul of 57 million rupees from a bakery in Baluchistan region during an ongoing investigation into a mega corruption scandal involving bureaucrats from the restive province... being investigated in the province amounting to billions....
The first long weekend of the summer got off to an ugly start with dozens of drunk drivers busted across the province... “One motorist tried to drive up a ramp the wrong way in Mississauga,” Sgt ... Cops across the province are also looking for distracted drivers, motorists not wearing their seat belts and other infractions as part of National RoadSafetyWeek, which wraps up Monday....
Protests in Baghdad led to heavy security throughout the city on Saturday, and many usually busy streets remained empty. Tahrir Square, where demonstrators have been gathering, has been closed off to them ... Also, a soldier who was stabbed died of his wounds ... The Trebil crossing was shut down last July because of the Islamic State takeover of territory within Anbarprovince ... Shelling on a refugee camp in Diyala province left one injured....
For their third offering, the band travelled to the NyanzaProvince of Western Kenya - home of their two members Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko - to explore the birthplace of Luo music ... The group features Nyatiti master Joseph Nyamungu and Lou percussionist Charles Owoko, both from the Nyanza Province in Western Kenya, as well as London-based musicians Tom Skinner (drums), JesseHackett (vox/keys) and Louis Hackett (bass)....