FRANCE: French Experts Examine Reunion Wing Part

Experts in France are due to begin examining part of a wing that washed up on the island of Reunion to see if it came from Flight MH370.

The fragment, known as a flaperon, is from a Boeing 777, the same make as the missing Malaysian airliner.

France has invited Malaysian and Australian aviation experts to Toulouse to help with the investigation.

Australia's Deputy PM Warren Truss said the teams may be able to say this week if it came from the plane.

For reasons that remain unclear the Malaysia Airlines plane, with 239 people on board, veered off course on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014.

It is believed to have crashed into the sea, though no confirmed trace has ever been found despite a massive search operation.