MALAYSIA:Malaysian authorities now admit they may have picked up radar signals from disappeared Malaysian Air flight 370 nearly 100 miles west of the jetliner’s planned flight path—explaining the decision to vastly expand the search area on Monday—and CIA director John Brennan says he is not ruling out terrorism behind the plane’s disappearance, “not at all.”

Everyone knows the Saudis have money, but when the Pentagon notified Congress last month that the desert kingdom planned to spend more than a billion dollars to buy anti-tank missiles, military analysts were puzzled. The proposed deal would put more than 15,000Raytheon anti-tank missiles in Saudi Arabia to defend the desert kingdom against a nonexistent threat. 

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas charged a Saudi princess Wednesday with one count of human trafficking for allegedly holding a domestic worker against her will and forcing her to work at an Irvine, Calif., condominium. If convicted, 42-year-old Meshael Alayban faces up to 12 years in prison.

Police arrested Alayban after a Kenyan woman flagged down a bus Tuesday and told a passenger she thought she was a human trafficking victim. The passenger contacted police, who searched the condo where Alayban and her family were staying.

The seamstress who survived for 17 days buried inside the Bangladesh garment factory collapse told the BBC: “Even in my wildest dreams I did not imagine I would come out alive.”

The surprise candidacy of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Iran’s June 14 presidential race is giving the ruling mullahs a headache.

Saudi Arabian officials have sentenced two men to flogging and prison for helping a women convert to Christianity and escape the country.

The uproar started last summer when a video clip surfaced showing a young woman in a hijab relating to an Arabic Christian TV host how she converted to Christianity after Jesus came to her in a dream. She is the first Saudi Arabian woman to publicly convert to Christianity.