8:42 pm
Other US lawmakers have also joined in the criticism.
Republican Michael McCaul said the early days of the search were squandered looking in the wrong place.
He told Fox News Sunday: "I think the Malaysian government spent way too much time focusing on the northern routes and the Gulf of Thailand and Kazakhstan.
"It would have been picked up by radar and we knew that. And I know satellite imagery given to the Malaysians established that, but we wasted a week of precious time up in that region when all along it's been in southern Indian Ocean, I think is where the location is."
7:42 pm
The Malaysian government has now come under even more pressure over its role in the search for the missing flight.
Today, a number of US politicians heavily criticised Malaysian officials.
Rep. Patrick Meehan told CNN: "I think across the board people are looking for more in the way of openness from the Malaysian government in terms of sharing the information they have in a timely manner."
6:43 pm
One of the men leading the search today said they did not find “anything of interest”.
Flight lieutenant Russ Adams and his crew returned back to base following another day's exhaustive search.
As expected, he said the weather had worsened since yesterday.
Forecasters have warned of strong winds and rain this week.
5:43 pm
Four military and four civilian aircraft were involved in the search today.
They covered a total of 59,000 sq km (22, 780 sq miles) south-west of Perth, Australia.
The search will be bolstered tomorrow when Chinese military Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft and Japanese P-3C Orion aircraft join in, the BBC reported.
4:43 pm
French satellite images of debris are around 600km from those previously published by Australia, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The paper says Malaysia's civil aviation chief Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told reporters he did not yet know the size of the objects in the images handed over this morning.
The French Foreign Ministry said the objects were 1,430 miles from Perth, but did not say in which direction or when the images were taken.
4:00 pm
We're now well into day 16 of the search for MH370, with the search in the southern Indian Ocean set to intensify tomorrow.
Chinese military Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft and Japanese P-3C aircraft are set to join the hunt with Australian crews on Monday.
See how the search has developed over the last 16 days in our timeline here.
2:44 pm
A little bit more detail here about the debris spotted by France today.
The French Foreign Ministry said radar echoes from a satellite put the objects about 2,300 km (1,430 miles) from Perth, without giving a direction or a date.
The debris in the Australian image was about 2,500 km southwest of Perth and the Chinese sighting, captured two days later, was around 120 km (75 miles) "south by west" of that.
The French ministry said in a statement: "These elements have immediately been passed on to the Malaysian authorities.
"France had decided to mobilise complementary satellite means to continue the search in the identified zone."
2:15 pm
The last two weeks for Malaysia Airlines have been heartbreaking, as the company desperately searches for the jet liner that disappeared with 227 of its passengers, as well as 12 of its staff.
But the company had yet another scare today, after one of its Boeing 737 jets was hit by a flock of birds as it flew into Kathmandu airport in Nepal, shattering the plane's windshields.
180 passengers and crew members had a lucky escape after the damaged aircraft managed to land safely.
In a statement the airline said: "Upon landing, the aircraft was inspected by the engineer on duty. It was found that the aircraft's landing light lens cover was broken.
"The aircraft was grounded for the night and the broken lens was subsequently replaced."
1:30 pm
The Australian search operation in the southern Indian Ocean has concluded for a fourth day without any sightings of significance, its being reported this afternoon.
Meanwhile, Malaysian transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein has shared this tweet, showing blue ribbons that are being distributed in the country today in support of those on MH370 and their families.