World News Update, what you need to know

Indonesia's transport minister says the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea "climbed at a speed which was beyond normal".

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SANAA - Shi'ite militiamen have seized the presidential palace in Yemen's capital in what a minister says is a bid to overthrow President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and his US-backed government.

KEROBOKAN, Bali - Indonesian lawyers for Australian man Myuran Sukumaran hope to file a judicial review of his case, potentially stalling his execution, by the end of this week.

JAKARTA - Police have nabbed their final suspect in the murder of Australian Robert Ellis, who was found dead in a Bali rice field last year.

JERUSALEM - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has vowed to stand firm after the Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese nationals, saying he would not freeze a multi-million dollar aid package.

MONTPELLIER, France - Five Russians from the Chechen region have been detained in southern France on suspicion of preparing an attack, local prosecutors say.

KIEV - Ukraine has accused Russian forces of attacking its soldiers after crossing over into the ex-Soviet state's war-wrecked separatist east in violation of a September truce deal.

THE HAGUE - A Lord's Resistance Army leader who surrendered to US forces is on his way from the Central African Republic to the International Criminal Court.

LONDON - The Sun newspaper has done away with its page three, topless model feature, after owner Rupert Murdoch described the custom as "old fashioned".