Malaysia signs $50 million deal with US company to scour the ocean for the remains of MH370

Malaysia signed a deal with a US seabed exploration firm for up to $50 million to find the missing MH370 aircraft.
The plane mysteriously dissappeared with hardly a trace in 2014.
Experts have searched thousands of square miles and are still debating about where it could be.
Malaysia signed a deal on Wednesday to pay a U.S. seabed exploration firm up to $50 million if it finds the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft MH370 in a new search area in the Southern Indian ocean.

The disappearance of the aircraft en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people aboard ranks among the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

Japanese astronaut apologizes for spreading 'fake news' after claiming to have grown 3.5 inches while in space

Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, on a mission to the International Space Station, apologized on Wednesday for saying he had grown 9 cm (3.5 inches) while in space and expressing concern about whether he'd be safe on his return to Earth.

Most astronauts "grow" during protracted space missions because their spines extend in the absence of gravity, but the gains are usually limited to a couple of centimeters (inches) maximum and disappear once they are back on the ground.

The 41-year-old Kanai, who went to space last month for a nearly six-month mission, posted on Twitter on Monday that he had "a big announcement."

"My height's been measured here in space and somehow, somehow, I've grown 9 cm! In only three weeks I've really shot up, something I haven't seen since high school," he tweeted.

South African singer Lungelo's pregnant partner dumps him, says he abuses her emotionally

Wonders shall never end goes a particular saying. This is apparent in the relationship of top South African musician Lungelo. A woman who claims to be his girlfriend took to Twitter to detail how Lungelo allegedly abused her physically and emotionally.

Foster dad accused of more than 900 rapes and violent acts against girls in his care

A gold-toothed Russian foster father has been accused of being the worst paedophile in the country after more than 900 counts of rape and violent sexual acts, mostly against girls in his care.

Viktor Lishavsky, 37, allegedly abused five schoolgirls who he acted as their legal guardian. He reportedly treated them as his 'personal harem' and 'sexual slaves'.

Lishavsky who ran a shoe repair shop was detained in June last year in Komsomolsk-on-Amur after one foster girl complained to a teacher who alerted police.

At least 13 killed in Southern California mudslides

At least thirteen people have been killed in mudslides in Southern California according to Santa Barbara County Sheriff, with numbers of fatalities expected to rise.

Homes were torn from their foundations Tuesday as downpours sent mud and boulders roaring down hills stripped of vegetation by a gigantic wildfire that raged in in the region last month.

Rescue crews used helicopters to pluck people from rooftops as debris blocked roads, and firefighters pulled a mud-caked 14-year-old girl from a collapsed Montecito home where she had been trapped for hours.

Scores feared dead and up to 100 missing after boat sinks off Libya's coast

Survivors from a boat that foundered off Libya’s coast on Tuesday said about 50 people who had embarked with them were feared dead, while the coastguard said the number of missing might be as high as 100.

Libyan coastguard vessels picked up nearly 300 migrants from three boats off the coast of the North African country on Tuesday, but one rubber boat was punctured and the coastguard only found 16 survivors clinging to its wreckage.

“We found the migrant boat at about 10 o’clock this morning. It had sunk and we found 16 migrants. The rest were all missing and, unfortunately, we didn’t find any bodies or [other] survivors,” said Nasr al-Qamoudi, a coastguard commander.

Hundreds of 'Boiled' Bats Fall from Sky in Australian Heat Wave

As temperatures rose to 111.5 degrees Fahrenheit (44.2 degrees Celsius) in Campbelltown in the Australian state of New South Wales, a colony of flying fox bats that lives near the town's train station felt the effects. Volunteers struggled to rescue the heat-stricken bats, according to the Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser, but at least 204 individual animals, mostly babies, died.

"They basically boil," Kate Ryan, the colony manager for the Campbelltown bats, told the newspaper. "It affects their brain — their brain just fries and they become incoherent." [Watch for Falling Iguanas! Bomb Cyclone Drops Frozen Lizards]