MH370 crash: Search area shifts based on "new, credible lead"

PERTH (Australia):  The search for wreckage of Flight MH370 was shifted Friday to an area 1,100km (685 miles) northeast of where planes had been looking after "a new, credible lead", Australian authorities said. 

"The new information is based on continuing analysis of radar data between the South China Sea and the Straits of Malacca before radar contact was lost," the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (Amsa) said.