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Spain braces for German Easter influx as flights boom

The Spanish island of Mallorca was on Tuesday bracing for an Easter influx of sun-starved German tourists, as demand for Mediterranean holidays soared despite virus curbs and warnings from Berlin against foreign travel.

EU sides with Americans in Europe in fight against US tax schemes

Brussels asks the US government to ease their complicated tax policies that are putting 300,000 US residents in Europe in a financial squeeze

Tennis

Rafa to the rescue? Nadal to face Germany's Zverev with Spain fate in his hands

World number one Rafael Nadal will have to defeat young German star Alexander Zverev on Sunday to keep Spain in the Davis Cup after Germany took a shock 2-1 lead after a marathon doubles triumph.

Alps plane crash

Lubitz sought 'deadly cocktail of drugs'

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who prosecutors allege deliberately crashed Germanwings flight 4U9525 in March, searched for a deadly cocktail of drugs on the internet, prosecutors in Düsseldorf confirmed on Friday.

Düsseldorf

Germany mourns victims of Alps plane crash

Hundreds of bereaved relatives and world leaders gathered in Cologne on Friday for a memorial service for the victims of last month's Germanwings crash.

Lufthansa

Pilots' doctors want stricter psych checks

German aviation industry doctors said Tuesday that pilots should undergo more extensive medical checks in the wake of the Germanwings crash in the French Alps that killed 150 people.