Germanwings plane crash: Recovery operation to resume

A search and recovery operation is due to resume in the southern French Alps after Tuesday's crash of a Germanwings plane with 150 people on board. Officials warn the operation could last for days in a remote mountain ravine between Digne and Barcelonnette. The leaders of Germany and France are expected to visit the crash site. The Airbus A320 - flight 4U 9525 - from Barcelona to Duesseldorf crashed after an eight-minute rapid descent, officials...

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Net neutrality legal challenge launched

Pro-net neutrality campaigners said they were fighting against priority internet access for those able to pay The industry body's president, Walter McCormick, said its members supported the enactment of "open internet" principles into law, but not using the new regulatory regime chosen by the FCC. "We do not believe the Federal Communications Commission's move to utility-style regulation... is legally sustainable," he said. USTelecom's case was...

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Bee behaviour mapped by tiny trackers

The tiny trackers measure have a range of up to 2.5m (8.2ft) A tiny new tracker designed to monitor bee behaviour is being tested by ecologists at Kew Gardens in London. It is made from off-the-shelf technology and is based on equipment used to track pallets in warehouses, said its creator Dr Mark O'Neill. Readers, used to pick up a signal from the kit, are connected to Raspberry Pi computers, which log the readings. The device has a reach of...

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Facebook data row reaches top Euro court

Max Schrems has long campaigned against Facebook's data practices The future of how Europeans' data is shared with US companies such as Facebook and Google is set to be considered by the EU's highest court. Lawyer and activist Max Schrems said revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden showed agreed privacy practices were being ignored by Facebook and others. He called for the current Safe Harbour deal, which allows the transfer of data to US...

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LHC restart: Short circuit slows preparations

Teams on the collider's big experiments like Atlas (pictured) are using the time to make extra tweaks The rebooted Large Hadron Collider is facing a delay of days or even weeks, after a short circuit was detected in one of its powerful electromagnets. Following a two-year break, the LHC is getting ready to smash protons together once again - at new, higher energies. Before the collisions begin, proton beams must travel safely around its 27km circumference...

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