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An Airbus A320 crashed at the Digne Region, south of France that is an hour north of Marseille.

In an official announcement, French President Francois Hollande said that no survivors are likely and that most passengers aboard the place were German.

Barcelona took a huge step towards a fifth La Liga title in seven years with a 2-1 win over Real Madrid thanks to Luis Suarez's stunning strike on March 23.
      
Here, AFP sports looks at five lessons to be learned heading into the final 10 games of the La Liga season.

BELGRADE - Red Star basketball team lost the EuroLeague Top 16 11th round match to FC Barcelona in Belgrade late on Thursday, 77-73 (15-15, 22-17, 11-18, 29-23).

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.

Manchester City face a huge challenge if they are to reach the last eight of the Champions League for the first time ever by overturning a 2-1 first leg deficit when they travel to an in-form Barcelona on March 18.
      

Three British teenagers suspected of trying to travel to Syria were released on bail late March 15 after being questioned for 24 hours on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism, police said.
      

ISTANBUL - Crvena Zvezda defeated Galatasaray 91-68 (21-16 31-19 15-16 24-17) in the 10th round of the top 16 stage of the basketball Euroleague in Istanbul on Thursday.

This was the third victory in Group E for the team coached by Dejan Radonjic, which means they still have a chance of getting through to the quarterfinals.

Fernando Alonso's mysterious crash has put McLaren on the back foot before the Formula One season has even started in what threatens to be another tough year for the team.
      
Speculation over the accident during testing is increasing rather than abating as Alonso prepares to sit out this week's season-opener in Australia on medical advice.
     

A number of 14 Romanian companies are currently showing solutions and products "made in Romania" at the world's largest mobile telephony and gadgets fair, Mobile World Congress (MWC), taking place in Barcelona over March 2-5, 2015.

Photo credit: (c) Gustau Nacarino / REUTERS

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was on hostile turf on March 2 as spoke to executives at the world?s biggest annual gathering of the mobile industry, renewing attempts to win their backing to help reach billions of users with no Internet access.