Updated at 10:25 a.m. ET on June 17, 2019. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane. He was 27 years old. This was a training flight for him, the last one; he would soon be fully certified. His trainer was the pilot in command, a man named Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who at 53 was one of the most senior...…Updated at 10:25 a.m. ET on June 17, 2019. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane. He was 27 years old. This was a training flight for him, the last one; he would soon be fully certified. His trainer was the pilot in command, a man named Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who at 53 was one of the most senior...WW…

In a forsaken little town in the Ecuadorean Amazon, an overgrown oil camp called Lago Agrio, the giant Chevron Corporation has been maneuvered into a makeshift courtroom and is being sued to answer for conditions in 1,700 square miles of rain forest said by environmentalists to be one of the world's most contaminated industrial sites. The pollution consists of huge quantities of crude oil and associated wastes, mixed in with the toxic compounds used for drilling operations—a noxious soup that for decades was dumped into leaky pits, or directly into the Amazonian watershed. The company that...…In a forsaken little town in the Ecuadorean Amazon, an overgrown oil camp called Lago Agrio, the giant Chevron Corporation has been maneuvered into a makeshift courtroom and is being sued to answer for conditions in 1,700 square miles of rain forest said by environmentalists to be one of the world's most contaminated industrial sites. The pollution consists of huge quantities of crude oil and associated wastes, mixed in with the toxic compounds used for drilling operations—a noxious soup that for decades was dumped into leaky pits, or directly into the Amazonian watershed. The company that...WW…

On the morning of May 11, 2008, a U.S. Army private second class namedMatthew Warren Brown died of a single gunshot wound to the head whilemanning a watchtower at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. Brownwas 20 years old. He was a skinny, all-American kid, a bit aimless butaffable and unassuming. He was a good guy. You could see it in his face.At his funeral back home in Pennsylvania, some 200 people showed up.In the aftermath of Brown’s death, army investigators created filesabout the circumstances. The bullet that killed him was fired from hisown weapon, an M4 carbine. He was working...…On the morning of May 11, 2008, a U.S. Army private second class namedMatthew Warren Brown died of a single gunshot wound to the head whilemanning a watchtower at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. Brownwas 20 years old. He was a skinny, all-American kid, a bit aimless butaffable and unassuming. He was a good guy. You could see it in his face.At his funeral back home in Pennsylvania, some 200 people showed up.In the aftermath of Brown’s death, army investigators created filesabout the circumstances. The bullet that killed him was fired from hisown weapon, an M4 carbine. He was working...WW…