Eight aerodromes have been shortlisted as a potential base for the UK's first spaceplane flights, which ministers want to establish by 2018.
Speaking after the Domino's test flight, the transport minister, Simon Bridges, said: "Our enabling laws and regulation means we have the ideal environment".
Malaysia is "unable to verify the cause of this tragedy, but we must and we will find out precisely what happened to this flight," said Prime Minister Najib Razak.
A Malaysian recovery team on the French island of Reunion has collected an aircraft window and other plane parts but could not immediately confirm whether they belonged to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said Thursday.
"Initial reports suggest that the debris is very likely to be from a Boeing 777, but we need to verify whether it is from Flight MH370," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told reporters Thursday.
Less than 24 hours after completing their long flights home, Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, laid out new travel plans suggesting that both believe that some form of agreement -- perhaps only partial, officials said, and possibly excluding the deal-breaking issue of Jerusalem -- may yet be possible in the weeks and months ahead.
After Mr Mara's flight, New Zealand's foreign minister suggested that "there is a lot to play out yet".
Wreckage spotted by Brazilian military planes in the Atlantic Ocean is that of missing Air France Flight 447, the Brazilian minister of defense said Tuesday afternoon at a news conference.
A single plane will collect illegal immigrants from Spain, Italy and France today and return them to Romania in Europe's first pooled deportation flight, the Spanish interior minister, José Antonio Alonso, said.
Malaysia will not give up on the search for missing flight MH370, its prime minister said as he visited the search hub in Perth.
