Gentiana

• Five people die in a helicopter crash in a São Paulo residential area, including the son of Governor Geraldo Alckmin. (Xinhua)
• Germanwings Flight 9525:
  • Data from the flight data recorder reveals that the plane was deliberately accelerated before crashing into the French Alps. (Reuters) (BBC) (Guardian)

• Sinai insurgency
  • About 15 Egyptian soldiers and 2 civilians are killed by a combination of guns and car bombs. (BBC) (The New York Times)
• Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
  • Saudi Arabia donates a plethora of weapons and medical supplies to the conflict by dropping them over Tawahi. (Reuters) (The Globe and Mail)

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disagrees with the Iranian nuclear program agreement that the P5+1 Nations offered to Iran, saying it threatens Israel. (Reuters) (YNet news) (Fox)

• Plaintiffs withdraw a lawsuit against Google that had asserted that it was illegally tying its licensing of the Android operating system to the favorable treatment of Google apps. (Reuters)

• An American sailor who was lost for 66 days in the Atlantic Ocean is found by a German tanker. He survived on a diet of solely raw fish and rainwater. (BBC) (CTV news) (Yahoo! news)

• Burkina Faso culls 115,000 chickens over a bird flu scare. (Reuters) (Xinhua)

• Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Piet de Jong celebrates his 100th birthday. (NOS)
• Former Vice President of Zimbabwe Joice Mujuru is expelled from the ruling party for allegedly planning a coup against President Robert Mugabe. (BBC) (Herald)(NewZimbabwe)