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International News… STONES POSTPONE TOUR The Rolling Stones on Tuesday postponed indefinitely their tour of Australia and New Zealand with frontman Mick Jagger plunged into grief over the apparent suicide of girlfriend L’Wren Scott. Jagger, who was reportedly heading back to New York, said he was «struggling to understand» Scott’s death as it emerged her fashion design business was grappling with multi-million-dollar debts. «The Rolling Stones are deeply sorry and disappointed to announce the postponement of the rest of their 14 ON FIRE tour of Australia and New Zealand,» they wrote on their website.
LAST WORDS FROM MISSING JET The last words from a Malaysian passenger jet missing for 10 days were apparently spoken by the co-pilot, the airline said Monday. Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq, his co-pilot, have become a primary focus of the investigation, with one of the key questions being who was in control of the aircraft when it veered off course about an hour into its flight to Beijing. The nonchalantsounding last message from the cockpit -- «All right, good night» -- came around the time that two of the plane’s crucial signalling systems were manually disabled.
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