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The Federal Aviation Office (LBA) said that parent company Lufthansa had given it "no information about the medical background" of Lubitz, who prosecutors allege deliberately crashed the plane, killing all 150 people on board.

"The autopilot was reprogrammed several times to increase the speed during the descent," a BEA spokeswoman said.

Police and military surrounded the buildings and were trying to secure the area in eastern Kenya, police officer Musa Yego said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is exploring all possible avenues to ensure the safe return of the Sri Lankans, the statement said.

Firefighters said power cables had started a fire beneath the pavement in Holborn and they could not put it out until the current was switched off.

A 27-year-old Bangladeshi blogger was on Monday hacked to death by three machete-wielding suspected Islamists, a month after a prominent American writer was killed in a similar manner.

Mikhail Kornienko and Scott Kelly are to spend 342 days aboard the orbiting laboratory, about twice as long as a standard mission on the station.

Pakistan, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan were also joining the operation, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.

Air pollution is linked to a higher risk of stroke, particularly in developing countries, finds a new study, while another study links pollution to anxiety.

After thanking American troops and diplomats, Ghani pledged that "we are not going to be a burden."

Asked if that meant North Korea, which quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1993, had the capability to fire a nuclear missile now, he replied: "Any time, any time, yes."

On Wednesday as gunmen mowed down foreign tourists, "there were no police around parliament and the museum," deputy speaker Abdelfattah Mourou said.

"The Viral Fever (TVF) and AIB have become the first independent creator groups in India to have mass followings of over one million subscribers on their Youtube channels," the Google service said.

A 33-year-old woman in the US faces up to 25 years in prison for pleading guilty to pushing an Indian man to death in front of a subway train in 2012.

Ukraine's government has forecast the economy to remain mired in a deep recession this year, contracting by 5.5 per cent.

Germany's ambassador to India has rebuked a German professor for what he said was the rejection of an internship application from a male Indian student on grounds of India's "rape problem".