Germany Plane Crash

Iran's supreme leader said Friday that demonstrations at home over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner were unrepresentative of the Iranian people and accused the country's enemies of exploiting the disaster for propaganda purposes.

A plane crashed in Germany on Sunday killing three people, police said, as one of Russia's richest women was identified by the company she co-owns as among the victims.

Several people died when a Cessna plane crashed into a crowd in the western German state of Hesse on Sunday, the police said.

Four people were killed on Tuesday when a small plane and a helicopter collided in southwestern Germany, police said.

A German court on Wednesday gave a woman a year's suspended jail sentence for posing as the cousin of a victim in last year's Germanwings plane crash and obtaining compensation offered by the airline.

Germany's Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged travellers to Egypt to avoid the Sinai Peninsula and, noting suspensions to some airlines' services to Sharm el-Sheikh, urged those affected to contact their tour operators or airlines.

The Lufthansa Group said on Thursday it would halt flights by its subsidiary Eurowings between Germany and Sharm el-Sheikh, citing "the current situation on the Sinai peninsula".

The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in the French Alps were being repatriated to Germany on Tuesday.

Britain, Germany and Turkey said Sunday they were temporarily grounding their Airbus A400M military transport planes after one crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain during a test flight.

Germany will hold a memorial service Friday to mourn the victims of the Germanwings crash, blamed on a depressed co-pilot believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a mountain.

The pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps had received a sick note from doctors showing he suffered a health condition that would have prevented him flying the day of the crash, which he apparently hid from his employer, German prosecutors said.

The friendly between Germany and Australia started on a sombre note with a minute's silence in tribute to the 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. Lukas Podolski netted in 81st minute to help world champions secure a 2-2 draw against Australia.

After an Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings airline crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board, the Dusseldorf Airport in Germany has seen long queues, with passengers lining up to rebook their flights.

Students and teachers at a small-town German high school broke down in tears once they realised that 16 classmates and two teachers were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane that crashed in France on Tuesday on a flight to Duesseldorf.

A plane operated by the budget carrier of Germany's Lufthansa crashed in a remote area of the French Alps today, killing all 150 on board in the worst plane disaster in mainland France for four decades.

Iran's supreme leader said Friday that demonstrations at home over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner were unrepresentative of the Iranian people and accused the country's enemies of exploiting the disaster for propaganda purposes.

A plane crashed in Germany on Sunday killing three people, police said, as one of Russia's richest women was identified by the company she co-owns as among the victims.

Several people died when a Cessna plane crashed into a crowd in the western German state of Hesse on Sunday, the police said.

Four people were killed on Tuesday when a small plane and a helicopter collided in southwestern Germany, police said.

A German court on Wednesday gave a woman a year's suspended jail sentence for posing as the cousin of a victim in last year's Germanwings plane crash and obtaining compensation offered by the airline.

Germany's Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged travellers to Egypt to avoid the Sinai Peninsula and, noting suspensions to some airlines' services to Sharm el-Sheikh, urged those affected to contact their tour operators or airlines.

The Lufthansa Group said on Thursday it would halt flights by its subsidiary Eurowings between Germany and Sharm el-Sheikh, citing "the current situation on the Sinai peninsula".

The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that was deliberately crashed in the French Alps were being repatriated to Germany on Tuesday.

Britain, Germany and Turkey said Sunday they were temporarily grounding their Airbus A400M military transport planes after one crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain during a test flight.

Germany will hold a memorial service Friday to mourn the victims of the Germanwings crash, blamed on a depressed co-pilot believed to have deliberately steered the plane into a mountain.

The pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps had received a sick note from doctors showing he suffered a health condition that would have prevented him flying the day of the crash, which he apparently hid from his employer, German prosecutors said.

The friendly between Germany and Australia started on a sombre note with a minute's silence in tribute to the 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps. Lukas Podolski netted in 81st minute to help world champions secure a 2-2 draw against Australia.

After an Airbus operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings airline crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board, the Dusseldorf Airport in Germany has seen long queues, with passengers lining up to rebook their flights.

Students and teachers at a small-town German high school broke down in tears once they realised that 16 classmates and two teachers were on board an ill-fated Germanwings airplane that crashed in France on Tuesday on a flight to Duesseldorf.

A plane operated by the budget carrier of Germany's Lufthansa crashed in a remote area of the French Alps today, killing all 150 on board in the worst plane disaster in mainland France for four decades.