Malaysia's government on Sunday asked for help from nearly a dozen Asian countries that the missing jetliner may have flown over, saying that finding the plane would be very difficult without additional data on its final movements.

Meanwhile, police were examining a flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which went missing more than a week ago with 239 passengers aboard a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

The government said police searched the homes of both of the plane's pilots on Saturday, the first time they have done so since the plane went missing. Asked why it took them so long, police chief Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar said authorities "didn't see the necessity in the early stages."

The nomination of Jakarta Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo as a presidential candidate is expected to lure foreign investors, boosting the rupiah following sustained improvement in Indonesia’s macroeconomic data, analysts say.

The rupiah, which has appreciated by 6.7 percent year-to-date, has become the best performer among emerging markets, overturning a 26 percent loss last year.

The currency was traded at 11,421 per US dollar on Friday, according to the Jakarta Interbank Spot Dollar Rate’s (JISDOR) latest data.

A recent Bloomberg survey deemed the rupiah’s strengthening as excessive, predicting it would weaken to 12,200 per dollar by year’s end. However, some analysts believe Jokowi’s nomination might turn the tables.

Bali managed to earn foreign exchange of 7.42 million U.S. dollars from the export of small-scale household industries made ​​from bamboo for 10 months, the period of January to October 2013. Head of Public Relations of the Provincial Government of Bali I Ketut Teneng in Denpasar expressed in terms of volume shipments of valuable merchandise, it increased 30.24 percent from 4.74 million units in the period January-October 2012 to 6.17 million units in the same period in, 2013. The condition, he said, shows the results of various types of souvenirs touch of the hands of skilled craftsmen of Bali bamboo raw materials, the cheaper the per unit for units in an overseas market.

The two pairs of All England champions, Hendra Setiawan/Mohammad Ahsan and Tontowi Ahmad/Liliyana Natsir, arrived Tuesday at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang to a heroes welcome, having earned Indonesia two of five titles at the All England badminton championships, the world’s oldest badminton competition.

Joining the enthusiastic fans at the airport’s Terminal 2D were former champions Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto, together with Youth and Sports Minister Roy Suryo, Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI) deputy chairman Fuad Basya and PBSI secretary-general Anton Subowo.

Several fans were seen carrying posters of the champions.

“Hendra, Ahsan — Owi, Butet,” they screamed, calling out the champions’ names. Butet is Liliyana’s nickname, while Owi referred to Tontowi.

In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering. But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonizing it can be to try to find something lost in them.

It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Closer to the area between Malaysia and Vietnam where Saturday's flight vanished, it took a week for debris from an Indonesian jet to be spotted in 2007. Today, the mostly intact fuselage still sits on the bottom of the ocean.

"The world is a big place," said Michael Smart, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia. "If it happens to come down in the middle of the ocean and it's not near a shipping lane or something, who knows how long it could take them to find?"

I finally took the plunge this year and booked the trip that was eight years in planning. What should have been my original honeymoon became a vacation and the destination which was exotic just eight years ago is now done to death. And yet, there is an allure about Bali that still allows it to be categorised as exotic. Strewn with temples with exquisite artistry, vertigo inducing cliffs that drop right into the ocean, ethereal rice paddies dotting the central mountains, surfing beaches to the south and a volcano to the east – Bali has something for everyone. In petite Bali nothing is more than a couple of hours’ drive away. Bali’s image is definitely maligned today, since the heavy onslaught of tourism following the phenomenon called ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. There are plenty of Ketuts and Wayans lining the streets to help hapless single women snatch their own Felipe.

NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life.

The space agency set aside $15 million in its 2015 budget proposal to start planning some kind of mission to Europa. No details have been decided yet, but NASA chief financial officer Elizabeth Robinson said Tuesday that it would be launched in the mid-2020s.

Robinson said the high radiation environment around Jupiter and distance from Earth would be a challenge. When NASA sent Galileo to Jupiter in 1989, it took the spacecraft six years to get to the fifth planet from the sun.

It will probably never amount to more than a comfort prize, but this mushroom may be the closest thing nature has to the World Cup trophy.

The mushroom, which looks exactly like the coveted football prize, was found growing in a valley in Liguria, Italy.

The fungi, an inedible Strap Coral mushroom was found by Claudio Pia, as he was taking a stroll near his home.

It was not until the 47-year-old shopkeeper saw a picture of the FIFA trophy that he remembered his strange find and its uncanny resemblance to the prize.

Claudio, who will be supporting Italy in the tournament this summer, said: ‘I was wandering through the woodland looking for tiny mushrooms to take some macro shots when I came across it.

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron spoke by phone on Wednesday ( 03/05/2014 ), ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders. The meetings were held to discuss the crisis Ukraine, including Russia over the crisis intervention.

Obama called Cameron from Air Force One, en route to Connecticut. According to a statement from the White House, the two leaders agreed that Russia had violated the sovereignty of Ukraine.
 

Bill Gates managed to restore his title as the richest man in the world according to Forbes this year. Through the release delivered Monday, March 3, 2014, Forbes announced that the Microsoft founder net worth at U.S. $ 76 billion, up from last year, amounting to U.S. $ 67 billion. Bill Gates managed to overtake a wealth of Carlos Slim, a Mexican businessman, who in 2010 and 2013 the richest man in the world. This year, Slim is predicted to have a net worth of U.S. $ 72 billion, down from U.S. $ 73 billion.

When the project started in 2012, hotels and restaurants contributed 200 liters of used cooking oil per day.

“Now, we receive 500 liters of used cooking oil a day to be processed into biodiesel. The amount of used cooking oil contributed to the project is, however, still below our target of at least 1,000 liters per day,” said Endra Setyawan, a member of staff at Lengis Hijau Foundation, which runs the recycling project.

Jimbaran - Hotel Le Méridien Bali Jimbaran get conferment as one of the "Best Luxury Resorts and Hotels in the World" in 2014 by Five Star Alliance, the site specific reservations for luxury hotels. Hotel located in Jimbaran is awarded as the Best Honeymoon Resorts in the World. Title as the best honeymoon resort in the world makes Le Meridien Bali Jimbaran as the only hotel and resort in Indonesia are included in the predicate. Predicate issued Five Star Alliance is obtained from the assessment of a travel agency.

"We are very proud of the predicate that makes our resort as the Best Honeymoon Resorts in Indonesia, according to judgments of Five Star Alliance. Located in Jimbaran Beach, our resort offers a great base for honeymoon couples who want a romantic atmosphere, "said General Manager of Le Méridien Bali Jimbaran, Gregory Gubiani.

The provincial administration and the Grand Council of Customary Villages (MUDP) will hold a special ritual called Pemelehpeh Jagat at Pura Agung Kentel Gumi Temple in Tusan, Banjarangkan in Klungkung on Saturday to ask for forgiveness following a series of disasters that have struck Bali and other places in Indonesia.

Smaller rituals will also be held in nearly 1,400 desa pekraman (customary villages) across Bali and at the governor’s office in Renon, South Denpasar.

In Kentel Gumi, the ritual will start at around 2 p.m. and will be led by two prominent Hindu high priests: Ida Pedanda Gde Putra Tembau of Aan, Klungkung, and Ida Pedanda Gunung Sari of Ubud, Gianyar.

The Ngurah Rai International Airport Bali is dedicated for a World Peace Airport. The ceremony was marked by the inauguration of the inscription and the delivery of statue in the form of Sri Chinmoy ‘the Dreamer of World Peace’ in a new garden of the international arrival area, Thursday (Feb 13). This dedication marked the series of the 50th anniversary of the Angkasa Pura.

The dedication ceremony was attended by the leaders of Bali, the King of Bali from Klungkung, Blahbatuh, Karangasem, Jembrana and Pemecutan as well as Ida Pedanda Sebali Tianyar serving as the President of the World Hindu Parishad. Co-General Manager of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, I Gusti Ngurah Ardita, said the determination was an honor because the community of the Island of the Gods continued to be given an award by foreign leaders. “The Ngurah Rai Airport is re- established as the world peace airport. This conferment becomes a proud of its own,” he said.

Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin rejected Tuesday night a request from Schapelle Leigh Corby’s family to conduct an exclusive interview with Australia’s Channel 7 television station.

The rejection put an end to the planned interview for which, it was alleged, Corby would receive substantial financial compensation.

“They [Corby’s family] need to understand that she is still a convict that has been granted parole. She surely knows the conditions attached to that status, and I think she should avoid doing anything that may cause uneasiness or social jealousy,” he told journalists in Nusa Dua.

Amir confirmed that he had received a letter from Corby’s family, signed by her brother-in-law, Wayan Widyartha, and her sister, Mercedes Corby.

Facebook has bought a mobile messaging service, WhatsApp for U.S. $ 19 billion. Whatsapp Purchasing a new record in the history of the acquisition of information technology companies.

The largest social networking company acquisition with details to pay U.S. $ 12 billion in Facebook shares and U.S. $ 4 billion in cash. "It became the biggest deal, than ever made by Motorola Mobility Google and Microsoft with Skype, even Apple," said eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson, as reported by ABC News, Thursday, February 20, 2014.

Regardless of the eruption of the volcano, located on the border between Kediri, Blitar and Malang, there are a customary ritual is always done in the crater of Mount Kelud which float offerings.

The traditional ceremony which is held every month suro Sugihwaras usually held in the Village, District Ngancar, Kediri.
According to local stories, float an offering intended to reject the oath reinforcements Calf Goddess Kilisuci Suro who cheated. But for Hindus alone, this sacred ritual is held as a form of gratitude to Sang Hyang Widhi, and also the form of respect for the ruler Kelud.
 

The traditional ceremony attended by many people, especially the Hindus of Bali, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Semarang. Starting at 10:00 am and ends at 13.00, this is one of the cultural traditions that suck the attention of many people who live around Kediri Kediri and also outside.

Impact mount Kelud eruptions are up to the city of Surabaya, East Java. City of Heroes, dust from volcanic ashes were scattered everywhere. To minimize the effect to the dust and odor to the breath, and the Surabaya City Government Hospital for the Air Force-user to mask the street in front of Bungkul Park, Thursday morning ( 14/2 ).

From field observations, it appears Surabaya City Fire Dept., Candra Uratmangun also looked down to join the volunteers of the mask.

" Many had the mask. Surely we do not count, there are many boxes there , many are anyway, " Chandra said on the sidelines for - the mask.

The motorists, especially two-wheeler, seemed to stop and accept the mask giving the volunteers. The road users are receiving the mask was immediately pulled over and put on the mask .

Separately, in the red light Jalan Raya Darmo, exactly in front of the Masjid Alfalah or in front of the Surabaya Zoo, traffic police unit area major cities of Surabaya is also giving out masks.

One story was never revealed until now is how the Beatles changed in a matter of weeks is not reputed to be the most sensational music group in America. "The way the Beatles bullet from famous not able to conjure up 73 million viewers the Ed Sullivan Show is a combination of perseverance, luck, right time, and the spirit, " said Steve Greenberg, author of How the Beatles Went Viral in 1964.

Perhaps it is true, on the Sullivan show managed to create Beatlemania in America. But the Beatles had actually set foot on the continent before they guested on the program itu. Greenberg, Grammy-winning producer at the same time music historian, asserts kesohoran the Beatles in America in six weeks has been phenomenal. Moreover, when there was no MTV, the Internet, social media, and iTunes.