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German police have seized possessions belonging to a co-pilot who apparently crashed his plane in the French Alps killing all 150 people on board, as they investigate his possible motives. They said they had found a significant clue, according to media reports. Data from the plane’s voice recorder suggest Mr Lubitz had deliberately started a descent while the pilot was ...

The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps, named as Andreas Lubitz, appeared to want to “destroy the plane”, officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the “black box” voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit. He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out. Mr Robin said there ...

Relatives and friends of the 150 passengers and crew on Germanwings Flight 4U 9525 are due to go to the crash site high in the French Alps. Lufthansa will operate two special flights – one from Barcelona and one from Duesseldorf – to Marseille, and both groups will travel on by road. Reports say one of the two pilots on ...

Ukraine’s president has accepted a resignation request by Ihor Kolomoisky – the powerful governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region. President Petro Poroshenko’s office said this happened when Mr Kolomoisky, one of the country’s richest men, met the president in the capital Kiev. This comes after armed men suspected of links to Mr Kolomoisky briefly occupied the offices of an oil ...

A search and recovery operation is resuming in the southern French Alps after Tuesday’s crash of a Germanwings plane with 150 people on board. Officials warn the operation could last for days in a remote mountain ravine between Digne and Barcelonnette. The leaders of Germany, France and Spain are due to visit the crash site. The Airbus A320 – flight ...

A Germanwings plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. The Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 – went down between Digne and Barcelonnette. None of the 144 passengers or six crew is expected to have survived. The plane crashed after an eight-minute descent, an official said. It is not clear ...

Tunisia’s Bardo Museum is due to reopen less than a week after gunmen killed at least 22 people, mostly European tourists, in the capital Tunis. A concert and a public rally are expected, with museum officials saying they want to show the world that the gunmen “haven’t achieved their goal”. There are fears the attack – claimed by Islamic State ...

Mr Lee set about creating a highly educated work force fluent in English, and reached out to foreign investors to turn Singapore into a manufacturing hub. He embarked on a programme of slum clearance, industrialisation and tackling corruption. He was a fierce advocate of a multi-racial Singapore. However, Mr Lee also introduced tight controls, and one of his legacies was ...

France’s centre-right UMP party and its allies have taken first place in the first round of local elections, partial results show. Projections suggest that the far-right National Front – despite strong gains – came second with about 25% of the vote, behind the conservatives on 31%. President Francois Hollande’s governing Socialists came third with 20%. Voters are electing representatives in ...

Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91. The city-state’s prime minister for 31 years, he was widely respected as the architect of Singapore’s prosperity. But he was criticised for his iron grip on power. Under him freedom of speech was tightly restricted ...