Prospective travellers who opt to use Malaysia Airlines can now book flights and pay for them using Facebook Messenger, the company has announced.

As I write this, we are nearly one week into the Malaysian Airlines tragedy in which almost 300 lives were lost. The mainstream media coverage and commentary from Western political leaders of the downing of MH 17 over Ukraine is nothing short of appalling. In short, we are being subjected to an overt attempt to lie us into another war.

Online scam artists, purportedly from Australia, are exploiting goodwill of strangers in the wake of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 using stolen credit cards and setting up fake social media profiles.