The mystery regarding what has happened to the Malaysian Airlines flight has deepened on Sunday as the search has continued for the aircraft. A military radar has indicated that the flight could have turned back to return to Kuala Lumpur prior to vanishing.

The flight carried 227 passengers along with 12 crewmembers. It suddenly disappeared in less than an hour after it took off for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur.

The plane’s disappearance has triggered a huge search and rescue operation throughout parts of the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, which has involved the military from China, Vietnam, Malaysia and the United States.

Officials from search and rescue in Vietnam said on Sunday that there was an investigation about a report on suspected debris seen floating near where the flight was thought to disappear.

The object was spotted by an aircraft from Singapore about 100 kilometers off the coast of Vietnam.

Three vessels from Vietnam were dispatched to that location and were due to arrive there sometime Sunday night. Two military airlifters and three vessels from the Singapore navy were sent to join the search.

The plane’s disappearance and the fate of its passengers and crew grew more complicated by revelations that two of the plane’s passengers appeared to have boarded with passports that were stolen. That prompted executives from the airline and officials from aviation to say foul play could not be ruled out.

The police chief in Malaysia said the investigators did not rule out the possibility of terrorism, but were not considering it the more likely cause of the plane’s disappearance.

Rescuers said the plane might have attempted a return to Kuala Lumpur, which might mean it could be in another location.

Military radar indicated that the plane might have reversed its course, said the chief of the air force General Rodzali Duad. The chief said military officials were continuing to study the data from the radar, adding that it was also corroborating using radar data from civilian authorities.

More than one dozen nations were represented by the passengers on the plane. Two people an Italian and an Austrian were not on the plane as their passports were the ones stolen in Thailand.

Prosecutors have said it was the dream theft of a live for the suspect, just snatch a Stradivarius violin worth millions of dollars from a musician who never suspected it.

Salah Salahadyn who is 41 had previously attempted and failed to steal artwork. The man who lives in Milwaukee pleaded guilty to attempting to resell a statue worth $25,000 to an owner of an art gallery from whom he had stolen it five years earlier.

The man’s girlfriend told officials that while he did not take part in stealing it, he in fact plotted the theft.

For the artwork theft, Salahadyn was given a five-year sentence. He now is facing as many as 15 years behind bars for the theft of the violin. He was charged along with another a suspect on Friday in connection with the heist in January of the Stradivarius which is worth $5 million and is 300 years old.

A source told law enforcement that Salahadyn spoke about stealing artwork, said the criminal complaint. The source said the man talked about his dream theft.

Universal Knowledge Allah, who is 36 and Salahadyn appeared on Friday in a courtroom in Milwaukee County and were charged with taking part in a robbery.

Allah was also charged with marijuana possession. The court commissioner put cash bail at $10,000, citing a lengthy criminal record for Salahadyn, which includes bail jumping. Allah was given $500 bail. His does not have a police record.

Paul Ksicinski the defense attorney for Allah said the complaint against his client said he was not at the robbery scene. However, the complaint does say that Allah purchased a stun gun that was used during the robbery.

Alejandro Lockwood, the public defender defending Salahadyn did not speak to reporters.

Experts said the violin degrades if not played, but will remain in top condition when regularly played. It is estimated that between 600 and 650 Stradivarius instruments remain, close to 50% of what were produced by the master and are worth millions.

It would not be difficult to locate one, as symphonies that have a Stradivarius will play up that fact in their ads, brochures and with local media.

An index that contains 55 different foods items fell from December’s 206.2 to 203.4 last month. The drop put world food prices at a 19-month low, as costs for all foodstuffs from grains to sugar dropped amidst large global supplies, said the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The FAO, based in Rome, released the information on Thursday online. The drop in the index was 4.5% from one year ago and is it’s lowest since June of 2012.

Corn was the S&P GSCI’s worst performer of the 24 commodities in 2013 dropping by 40% thanks to a record crop globally. Sugar fell by 16% in 2013 in New York and this year has extended that slid by another 1.6% as world supplies outpace the demand across the globe.

In another report, the FAO has said that production of world grain will be more than previously thought with a record 2.5 million metric tons.

Bumper crops during 2013 helped increase inventories, which along with large supplies for export, have forced down the prices internationally of cereals to far below the 2012 high levels, said the FAO.

Early 2014 prospects are also favorable for crops, forcing most cereals to fall even further over the last few weeks.

The grain index for FAO dropped from 191.5 to 188.4 in January, according to the latest report. The gauge for sugar prices by FAO dropped by 5.6%, while costs of vegetable oil fell by 3.8% and prices of meats dropped by over 0.9%. FAO announced that the only prices to rise were dairy costs which climbed by over 1.4%, said FAO.

The dairy cost increase was 29% higher than the same period one year ago. Widespread drought has reduced output in New Zealand, the largest diary exporter in the world.

The Department of Agriculture in the United States projects that the global inventories for dairy products from milk powder to cheese would fall in 2014 as the demand begins to outpace supply.

Imports into China of powdered whole milk, which often times is used in baby’s formula have spiked by 14-fold over the past 6 years, show new data from the USDA.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an ad campaign that is the largest effort yet by the government to curb the use of tobacco amongst teens that are at-risk.

The media campaign of $115 million was born from the new FDA authority to regulate tobacco, given through a law enacted in 2009.

The ads are aimed at the close to 10 million teens in the U.S. who are thinking about smoking or are experimenting with tobacco, said the FDA.

Many kids “at risk” look at smoking as a coping mechanism to give them help in dealing with problems caused by violence, poverty or turmoil in the family.

Although the first set of new ads will be directed at a broad group of teens, the next campaigns will target some specific groups like Native Americans and gay teens.

Ads will air on MTV, YouTube, in Teen Vogue and other forms of social media.

The ad campaign was based upon studies that have shown teens are often worried about how they appear instead of their risk over the long tern of developing cancer.

One ad depicts a female attempting to purchase cigarettes in a store. When the sales clerk say she does not have enough to pay for the cigarettes, the girl scrapes part of her cheek off that reveals wrinkles underneath and then hands over her youthful looking skin to the store clerk.

This campaign comes following a new report from the surgeon general released in January that calculated over 5.6 million children in the U.S. will die from illnesses related to tobacco, unless the U.S. takes action immediately to lower the overall smoking rates.

Nearly 3,200 teens experiment with their first cigarette every day and 700 then become smokers for their lifetime, says the FDA.

The effort to educated teens over the dangers of smoking comes from the expanded authority given the FDA to regulate tobacco that was given to the regulatory agency through the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Act in 2009.

The FDA used the law in 2009 when it created the cigarette pack graphic warnings, an appeals court however struck down the warning labels two years ago.

On Tuesday, the worst nightmare came true for many students in Alabama and Georgia, where a freak winter storm shuttered the bus service stranding the students at school for the night.

School staff and teachers gave students snacks to eat and games to play throughout the long night. One teacher said that younger students are routine-oriented and what happened is very out of the ordinary, which caused some students to be uncomfortable.

Some road conditions were so bad in some of the schools districts that not just buses were kept off road, but parents were told not to drive and pick up their children.

Robert Bentley the Governor of Alabama told news reporters late on Tuesday that officials from the state did not know the total number of students who had been stranded or the number of schools that still had children. However, Bentley promised no matter how many students there were, they would all be watched over and fed.

Close to 600 students were at schools in Birmingham early Wednesday, said that district’s Superintendent.

In the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia, over 850 students remained at schools after midnight, though the total number had started to decline. Over 200 students and between 15 and 20 staff had settled in for a long night at Marietta High, said on teacher.

One member of the Marietta school board said nearly every school in the district would have children overnight since buses could not travel and parents were stranded at home.

Initially, the Atlanta school system that has over 55,000 students attending public schools, said it had hoped they all would be home no later than 8 pm. However, by 8:30 pm Tuesday night buses were still having problems reaching schools.

Late on Tuesday night, the Atlanta school system said it issued an emergency declaration for the students and staff that remained at the schools. It said that food and security had been continued to be provided at each of its campuses.

One teacher said the students were not causing any problems, but it was the parents who had given them the headaches.

A mother in Germantown, Maryland along with another woman have been accused of killing two children and attempting to kill two others that they believed they were exorcising demonic spirits from that possessed the children, said police.

The children who died – Norell Harris a 1-year old boy and Zyana Harris a 2-year old girl – were found on Friday in their mother’s room on her bed. Both of the children had multiple stabs wounds.

Taniya Harris, 5 a sister and Martello Harris, 8 a brother, were injured but doctors expected both to survive. Police said that the women had thought they were exorcising the demons from the children although it appears no ritual was followed. A police spokesperson said the women thought something bad was happening to the children and they were trying to release it.

The women were identified by police as Zakieya Avery, the mother who is 28 and Monifa Sanford, 21. Sanford lived with Avery. Each of the women was charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of first-degree murder.

Detectives located two knives they believe were used in the gruesome attacks. One knife is similar in size to a paring knife, while the other was larger, said a police spokesperson.

Avery has received counseling for her mental health. She has moved on two occasions recently from Maryland to Ohio then to Germantown.

One of Avery’s relatives said the woman had separated from her spouse. Posts on Facebook on her personal page suggest she believes in God as well as fears Satan.

Avery’s step grandmother told reporters that Avery appeared to take care of her children and loved them. People who gathered outside the home said a person had to be very sick in order to kill someone they have brought into the world.

One neighbor said that on Thursday night he saw signs there might be trouble. He spotted a child by himself inside a car and promptly called 911.

Before officers arrived, two women exited Avery’s home and told the man to mind his own business. They took the child and went into the house.

When police arrived they knocked at Avery’s house, but no one answered. Nothing suspicious was heard or seen. The police called child welfare who said someone would visit on Friday and then the police left.

The following morning the same neighbor spotted other signs of possible trouble. Police entered the home after being called by the neighbor saying he had found a knife near a car door that was left open.

Pop singer Justin Bieber had his house raided on Tuesday as police were investigating a complaint of vandalism at his neighbor’s house in Calabasas, California.

Police found what they believed initially to be cocaine, but later believed was Xanax or Ecstasy. In the process, the police arrested Lil Za a singer friend of Bieber’s on drug possession.

The Sheriff’s Department of Los Angeles County said the drugs were Xavier Smith’s, aka Lil Za, who is 20. He was taken from Bieber’s house in handcuffs and charged with a felony.

While Smith was waiting to post $20,000 bail, police hit him with another felony vandalism charge as he damaged a phone while in lock-up, said a spokesperson for the sheriff’s department. After the incident, police raised the rapper’s bail to $75,000.

Bieber was one of 7 to 8 people in the house early Tuesday during the search related to egg throwing at a neighbor’s home.

Authorities said Bieber did not have any connection with the cocaine that was found by police, a sheriff’s department spokesperson confirmed.

Following law enforcement’s news conference regarding the search of Bieber’s home and subsequent arrest of Smith, officials said the drug was thought to be Ecstasy or Xanax and not cocaine.

Nevertheless, Smith could spend up to 3 years behind bars if he is tried and convicted of felony cocaine possession. However, possession of Ecstasy only carries a maximum sentence of less than one year.

Bieber, who is 19, is being investigated after his neighbor alleged someone from the Bieber house threw raw eggs at his home last Thursday.

A video of the incident that was leaked to the press seems to have a voice in the background similar to Bieber’s

Bieber was not questioned and did not give a statement about the alleged vandalism while his house was searched.

Jeffrey Schwartz his irate neighbor claims he witnessed Bieber from his balcony on the second floor. Schwartz called the police following the incident, said Bieber had thrown 20 eggs or more and caused over $20,000 in damages to his wood and plaster exterior.

This is not the first run-in Bieber has had with Schwartz. In another incident, Schwartz claims Bieber spit in his face.

On Monday, authorities in Florida said they had charged a retired police captain with fatally shooting a man following an argument over texting messages on a mobile phone inside a movie theater.

A spokesperson with the Pasco County Sheriff’s office said two couples were watching a movie on Monday in Wesley Chapel, Florida just to the north of Tampa, when gunshots rang out.

Curtis Reeves, who is 71, asked that Chad Oulson, 43, stop texting on his mobile telephone, and an argument ensued.

Oulson and Nichole, his wife, were rushed to a nearby hospital where the man died. Injuries his wife sustained were said to be non-life threatening.

The spokesperson from the sheriff’s department said a deputy who was off-duty detained Reeves while waiting for police to arrive. Police charged Reeves with murder in the second degree.

A spokesperson from the Tampa Police Department said that Reeves had been a captain at his time of retirement from that department back in 1993. Reeves has a son who is currently a police officer in Tampa, said police.

The shooting took place in Wesley Chapel’s Cobb Theatres. The two men argued, said witnesses when Oulson was texting while the previews were being shown prior to the movie, Lone Survivor being played.

Police could not believe that something so tragic would happen just because an individual was texting.

One witness, who was inside the theater, said the shooting victim told the shooter he was texting his daughter who was just 3-years old. The witness said popcorn was thrown and then the shot rang out.

The parent company of Cobb Theatres released a statement that said the company was saddened by the events and that their thoughts as well as prayers were with the two victims and their families.

The theater was closed following the shooting and investigators started their investigation. The theater said that it was a top priority to maintain the security, safety and comfort of moviegoers and the incident has caused them to be heartbroken.

Wesley Chapel is a town of 45,000 located north of Tampa.

In the U.S., the flu season has begun to get worse with the sickness now spreading into more than 35 states, up from the 25 the previous week, according to the Center for Disease Control that released a report on Friday.

Lyn Finelli an expert on flu with the CDC said in the weekly reports on flu that the season has yet to peak, but it is still too soon to determine if it will be worse than what is considered normal.

Thus far, the numbers are not as high as last year. The amount of people that have visited doctors for flu symptoms climbed to over 4% of all visits to the doctor last week, which was near double from just two week before.

North Carolina health officials reported on Thursday that the death toll due to seasonal flu had increased by 2 to 21. Of the deaths, 19 were young or middle-age adults, of which most had underlying medical conditions. Just two of the deaths reported were in people older than 65.

State officials in health said the flu activity was widespread in many states since the middle of December. The season usually does not peak until late January and into February.

Health officials in Washington said on Friday that the state had 11 deaths this season. King County had accounted for five deaths, which is expected since it is the population center for the state. Last season, there were 54 flu deaths officially reported for Washington.

Officials in Washington said the number of deaths was not unusual but that the department urged everyone older than 6 months to be vaccinated.

In Nevada, there have been five deaths in Washoe County, while two-middle aged people and one elderly person died in Clark County.

Officials said people could still have a flu vaccination. Even though the season peaks in January or February, officials warned that it continues many times into spring.

Besides getting a vaccine, it is recommended that people wash their hands frequently, cover their mouths and nose when sneezing and cough to stop as much as possible the spread of germs.

Sandra Bullock, Justin Timberlake and Ellen DeGeneres enjoyed multiple wins at the People’s Choice Awards, the first awards show for the year.

The people spoke and Bullock’s name is whom they chose. The actress, who has won an Academy Award, was the night’s biggest winner on Wednesday with four awards that included favorite movie actress as well as favorite movie duo with George Clooney in Gravity.

Bullock thanked co-stars, film crews and Louis her son for letting her have a night out. She said she won so many awards because all the people around her make her look and act better.

Over 700 million votes were cast to select the winners, with Beth Behrs and Kat Dennings the stars of Two Broke Girls hosting the awards show with OneRepublic, Brad Paisley and Sara Bareilles all performing.

Iron Man 3 won the awards for best action movie and favorite overall movie. The favorite television network comedy went to The Big Bang Theory, while Kaley Cuoco, its star won favorite comedy actress for television.

Timberlake took home three awards for favorite Album, R&B artist and male artist. DeGeneres, by winning the favorite TV host for daytime, became the all time winningest female on the awards show with her 14th award.

DeGeneres thanked the people for voting for her and said nothing givers her more pleasure than making people happy.

Queen Latifah won the award for best new host of a talk show and said the award means a great deal to her since it comes from the people.

Favorite comedy actor in a movie went to Adam Sandler, which was the fourth straight year he has won the award.

Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder, who heat up the television screen on Vampires Diaries and are an ex-couple in real life, won for favorite chemistry onscreen. However, they said it was not awkward for them when acting.

Britney Spears won her first award at the People’s Choice for most popular pop artist. She called the win awesome and thanked her sons, family and management team.

Jennifer Houston won the favorite humanitarian award on the show in recognition of the work she does for the Julian D. King Gift Foundation.