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Germanwings crash: Seyne les Alpes residents offer to host victims' relatives

Residents of Seyne les Alpes are showing their solidarity with relatives of those killed in the Germanwings crash by offering free accommodation

26/03/2015

France

Prosecutors believe co-pilot deliberately flew Germanwings jet into mountain

Marseille prosecutor says co-pilot of ill-fated Germanwings jet put A320 into descent with captain locked outside cockpit

26/03/2015

France

French prosecutor: Germanwings co-pilot appears to have crashed plane deliberately

Marseille prosecutor says co-pilot of ill-fated Germanwings jet put A320 into descent with captain locked outside cockpit

26/03/2015

France

Germanwings pilot 'locked out' of cockpit - crash investigators

The New York Times and AFP quote investigators into the Germanwings crash as saying that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not get back in before the flight went down.

26/03/2015

France

Families of the victims of Germanwings air disaster arrive at crash site

Air crash investigators and search teams have begun a third day scouring the wreckage of the Germanwings A320, which crashed with 150 people on board

26/03/2015

France

How pilot could have locked himself in cockpit of doomed jet

26/03/2015

France

New reports claim Airbus crash voice recorder reveals pilot 'was locked out of cockpit'

French emergency workers have removed the first bodies from the mountainside where a Germanwings Airbus crashed on Tuesday killing all 150 people on

26/03/2015

France

Germanwings crash: plane 'pulverised,' says journalist

A French journalist, who says he was the first reporter to arrive at the scene of the Germanwings air crash, has told euronews that it appears the

25/03/2015

France

Villages in the French Alps prepare to welcome families of air crash victims

Villages around the site of the Germanwings plane crash prepare to welcome the relatives of victims

25/03/2015

World

Germanwings crash: recovery mission 'difficult' amid bad weather

Euronews corrrespondent Laurence Alexandrowicz is in Seyne-les-Alpes, close to the scene of the Germanwings air crash. She described the importance

25/03/2015

France

Investigators examine audio from ill-fated Germanwings flight recorder

Audio from ill-fated Germanwings plane recovered from flight recorder

25/03/2015

France

[Live updates] Germanwings crash investigators still searching for second Black Box

The French government says one of the black boxes recovered from the site of the Germanwings Airbus crash in the Alps is the cockpit voice recorder and has been sent for analysis.

25/03/2015

France

Search resumes for clues as to why Germanwings plane crashed in French Alps

Investigators in France have resumed sifting through the wreckage for clues as to why a Germanwings airbus crashed into the French Alps killing all

25/03/2015

France

Disbelief as Airbus crashes near small French Alpine town

Residents in the small French town of Seyne Les Alpes are finding it difficult to come to terms with what has happened virtually on their doorstep

24/03/2015

France

Germanwings crash: Witnesses describe moment of impact

France is reeling following the first plane crash on its soil in 15 years. In the alpine town of Barcelonnette, near to the crash site, eyewitnesses

24/03/2015

France

Germanwings press conference mystery: what wasn't he supposed to say?

A Lufthansa spokeswoman has sparked a mystery around the crash of flight 4U9525. A journalist at a press conference asked “” Heike Birlenbach

24/03/2015

World

Germanwings crash: lack of radio contact 'may not be surprising'

The French authorities have confirmed that one of the black box flight recorders has been recovered from the site of Tuesday’s passenger plane crash

24/03/2015

France

France: Search teams arrive at Germanwings plane crash site

A plane carrying 150 people, including a group of schoolchildren, has crashed in the French Alps. Aerial footage shows the wreckage of the Airbus

24/03/2015

France

Spanish, French, German leaders extend condolences to air crash disaster families

On hearing the Germanwings disaster news, Spanish King Felipe VI aborted an official visit to France. Accompanied by Queen Letizia and flanked by

24/03/2015

France

France plane crash: what we know

An Airbus A320, operated by Lufthansa subsidiary Germanwings, crashed on Tuesday morning in a remote area of the French Alps. All 150 people on

24/03/2015

France

Germanwings crash: search suspended

Search called off overnight, 150 people presumed dead after Germanwings airliner crashes in French Alps Recovery teams have suspended the search for

24/03/2015

France

New anti-pollution traffic ban cuts congestion, says Paris mayor

The number of vehicles clogging up the roads in Paris was sharply reduced on Monday due to anti-pollution measures, according to the authorities. The

23/03/2015

France

Sarkozy's UMP party knocks National Front into second place in French local elections

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative UMP party and their allies have won the first round of French local elections, denying Marine Le

23/03/2015

France

French regional vote: Polls suggest Front National has mediocre first round

Initial exit polls suggest Le Pen's Front National has had a disappointing first round in the French elections, while Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP looks set to triumph.

22/03/2015

France

France regional elections: exit polls put Sarkozy's UMP in lead

Exit polls following the first round of regional elections in France suggest President Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP Party will come out in the lead. The

22/03/2015

Sport

World Cup skiing showdown sees Fenninger, Hirscher win big

In this edition of Gravity we go to the French ski resort of Méribel as the World Cup draws to a close. The Giant Slalom was run on the Roc de Fer

22/03/2015