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Top Stories: Malaysia Jet Remains Missing; Turkey's Leaders Split On Twitter Ban

By Mark Memmott

Published March 21, 2014 at 6:04 AM PDT

Good morning.

Our early headlines:

-- Nothing So Far In Search For Debris From Malaysian Jet

-- Split Decisions: Ukraine Signs Up With EU, Russia Wraps Up Crimea

-- Taliban Militants Attack Kabul Hotel, Killing 9

-- Book News: Khushwant Singh, Who Wrote Of India's Bloody Partition, Dies

Also making headlines:

-- "Turkey's President Criticizes Twitter Ban" Backed By Prime Minister. ( The Wall Street Journal)

-- "Mt. Gox Says It Has Found 200,000 Bitcoins Worth About $114 Million." ( The New York Times)

-- "Thailand In Limbo After Election Annulled." ( Reuters)

-- "Day Of Upsets" In Men's Basketball Championship. ( Morning Edition)

Mark Memmott

Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.

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