Families are due to gather in a village in the French Alps to mark the first anniversary of the Germanwings air disaster.

The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane which crashed in the French Alps in March may have practised a rapid descent on a previous flight, the German newspaper Bild has said.

A Germanwings flight bound for Italy from Germany is evacuated late on Sunday due to a bomb threat, the airline said.

Lufthansa said the Germanwings co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing his plane into the Alps had disclosed about his depression earlier

Five days after Germanwings flight 4U 9525 crashed in the French Alps killing all 150 on board, investigators say they have isolated 78 DNA strands.

The father of a British man,Paul Bramley, killed in the Alps air crash urges airlines to look after their pilots "properly".

The co-pilot suspected of crashing a German airliner into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others, knew the region from gliding holidays

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.