A cockpit voice recorder badly damaged when a German jetliner smashed into an Alpine mountainside and a crucial two-minute span when the pilot lost contact are vital clues into what caused the plane to go down, killing all 150 people on board

Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashes in a remote area of the French Alps. All 148 passengers and crew members are feared dead.

A German biologist who offered €100,000 (£71,350; $106,300) to anyone who could prove that measles is a virus has been ordered by a court to pay up.

The television commercial titled "Beautiful Bangladesh - Land of Stories" has won diamond award under best film making category during one of the world's largest tourism fair styled ITB-Berlin 2015.

A group of foreign diplomats including US and EU ambassadors has emphasised on the de-escalation of political conflict for the sake of human rights and democracy in Bangladesh.

German parliament has voted to extend financial aid to Greece by another four months.