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The tragic crash of Airbus A320 in mountainous terrain in southeastern France cost the lives of 150 people including 16 students and two infants.
Swedish football team Dalkurd FF from Borlaenge, in central Sweden, was booked to fly home to Sweden on the budget carrier after a trip to Catalonia.
However, their lucky stars made them change their traveling arrangements.

Turkish lender Kuveyt Türk said on March 22 it would launch Germany?s first full-fledged Islamic bank in July, a first step intended at offering sharia-compliant retail banking services across the continent.

Bulgaria has sold a EUR 3.1 B triple-tranche bond comprising of seven-, 12- and 20-year maturities on foreign markets, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.

The volume is the biggest amount of debt issued by a country in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA) through a single syndicate of banks, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

Only two of the ten scheduled flights between Bulgaria's Sofia Airport and Munich and Frankfurt will be conducted on Friday as the pilots of German airline Lufthansa continue their strike.

Short and medium haul flights to Europe, including all flights between Sofia and the two German airports, were cancelled on Wednesday, when the strike began.

BELGRADE - Svetislav Pesic, More Than A Coach, a documentary feature film about one of Europe's most successful basketball coaches, will have its world premiere on March 29 at the Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival.

The most notable players, coaches and global sports leaders who have worked with Pesic reveal what makes him the winner.

The low-cost Hungarian airline Wizz Air will start flying to five new destinations from Bulgaria's Sofia Airport.

From the middle of September Wizz Air will start operating flights from Sofia to Bari, Cologne, Geneva, Munich and Naples, daily Dnevnik reports.

The flights to Bari and Cologne will start on September 14 and will be operated twice weekly on Mondays and Fridays.

Pilots for German airline Lufthansa announced they would extend until March 20 a strike that has already hit tens of thousands of passengers and seen hundreds of flights cancelled in a dispute over a retirement scheme.
      

German airline Lufthansa cancelled around 750 short- and medium-haul flights Wednesday, hitting tens of thousands of passengers, as pilots staged fresh strike action in a bitter dispute over early retirement.
      

All ten Lufthansa-operated flights between Sofia and Munich and Frankfurt are cancelled on Wednesday due to the announced 12-hour strike of the airline's pilots.

The German airline cancelled on Wednesday 750 out of its 1400 scheduled domestic and European, which is expected to affect 80 000 passengers, the Business Insider reports.

German architect Frei Otto was named as winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize on March 10, a day after his death at the age of 89, organizers of architecture's top honor said.
      
Otto, renowned for designs which incorporated lightweight tent-like structures, had been informed he had won the accolade shortly before his death, a statement said.