UPDATES ON CHIBOK GIRLS: OBAMA DEPLOYS MORE TROOPS

The United States has deployed troops to join the search for the over 200  schoolgirls abducted by the extremist Boko Haram sect in Chibok, Borno State on April 15. President Barack Obama has notified the Congress of the deployment of 80 military personnel, who  will be based in Chad, Nigeria’s northern neighbour. Their mission is to help locate the kidnapped girls.

Obama has sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and to the Senate, notifying lawmakers about the steps underway to assist in the return of the abducted girls.

Aircraft Searching: Chinese Aircraft Spots 'Suspicious Objects' , French Images Show Possible Debris From Jetliner

French satellite images show "potential objects in the vicinity of the southern corridor," Malaysia's Ministry of Transport said. That is thought to be close to areas of the Indian Ocean where previous satellite images released by Australia and China showed objects that could be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet

The Chinese media say an aircraft searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane has spotted what it described as "suspicious objects" floating in the southern Indian Ocean. Official Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that two "relatively big" floating objects and several smaller white ones were scattered over several kilometers.

Authorities plan to search the area to see if the debris may have come from the missing Boeing 777, which disappeared more than two weeks ago.

BREAKING NEWS: Chinese satellite spots new debris in hunt for missing Malaysian plane MH370 in the sea

Hopes of finding missing plane as large object spotted in sea as the Chinese government discovered a new piece of debris in the sea, raising hopes of finding the missing Malaysian plane.

Acting Malaysian transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein was handed a hand-written note during a press conference saying that satellite images had found an object 22m long and 30m wide.

He told the assembled journalists that the debris had been seen in the southern corridor in the Indian ocean, but did not give more details about its location.