Search and recovery efforts on Wednesday 25 March in the French Alps, after a Germanwings plane crashed a day earlier with 150 people on board
Airbus 320 Flight 4U 9525 was travelling between Barcelona and Duesseldorf
The aircraft's black box voice recorder has been recovered and contains a 'usable audio file'
The casing of the second box - the flight data recorder - has been found, but not its contents
Memorial services being held as mourning for the victims begins
Among the dead are believed to be 72 German nationals and at least 51 Spaniards
Citizens of the UK, Australia, Japan, Israel, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Denmark, the Netherlands, the USA and Belgium were also on board
French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy have visited the crash site
The Israeli foreign ministry has confirmed that one of the victims of the crash was 39-year-old Israeli national Eyal Baum, Israel Radio reports.
Mr Baum, of Hod HaSharon, was living in Barcelona and was on the flight to Duesseldorf for work. The station says his family has been notified.
Staff from Germanwings and parent company Lufthansa are to hold a minute's silence at 10:53 (09:53 GMT) on Wednesday - the time contact with the plane was lost. Six Germanwings crew are among the dead.
Wednesday morning has been traumatic for students at the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium in Haltern am See, western Germany. Two teachers and 16 teenagers from the secondary school were killed.
Image source, AFPAn information panel at Barcelona airport shows Germanwings flight GWI 9441 to Duesseldorf due to depart on Wednesday morning, a day after the airline's flight 4U 9225 crashed.
Image source, EPAA team of 30 psychologists is preparing to welcome the families of victims in Seyne-les-Alpes on Wednesday, AFP reports. They will be based in a small sports hall in the village's youth club.
The black box of the crashed aircraft has arrived in Paris and will be looked at immediately, French transport minister Alain Vidalies announced on Europe 1 radio.
He said that although the box was in a damaged condition, "we believe we will still be able to check it… If there are voices, it will be extremely quick".
The minister continued: "Then, it's about analysing sounds, which could take several weeks, but that's the work that may give us an explanation."
This pupil at Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium told the BBC's Katya Adler she keeps thinking she will see her friends on Wednesday and that they will be able to tell her about their "adventures" in Spain.
"I cannot really think of them as dead people," she added.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said it is "sadly likely" that some British nationals had been on board the plane.
UK resident Marina Bandres Lopez-Belio, originally from Jaca in Spain, has been named as being one of the passengers by the mayor of her Spanish home town. She was in Spain to attend the funeral of a relative.
Carol Friday from Melbourne, Australia, has been named as another of the 150 victims of Tuesday's crash. She had worked in nursing and midwifery for more than 40 years and had just celebrated her 68th birthday, ABC in Australia reported, external. She was on holiday with her son Greig.
Image source, AFP/GettyLogistics will have to be put in place for those parents and relatives who may wish to travel to the crash site in the coming days, The BBC's Jenny Hill says.
A rescue helicopter from the French Gendarmerie flies over the snow covered French Alps during a search and rescue operation near the crash site, close to Seyne-les-Alpes, on Wednesday morning.
Image source, ReutersOne of the victims has been named as Oleg Bryjak, a baritone with Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The opera's artistic director Stephen Harrison described him as "an artist of many colours".
He said: "We're totally shocked and last night we had a big piano dress rehearsal of Verde's Aida, where I then told everybody that this had happened, and everyone was speechless.
"People were crying, it was terrible. We had to cancel the rehearsal, we couldn't go on."
One of the "most harrowing" details to emerge outside Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium is that some parents planning to travel to Dusseldorf to welcome their children home from their Spanish exchange only found out what had happened through media reports, says BBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill.
"Friends and parents desperately tried to contact those youngsters on their mobile phones and got no reply," she added.
Police, fire fighters and mountain rescue teams load items into a helicopter before heading to the crash site on Wednesday morning.
Image source, EPABurning candles and the pins of German airlines Condor, Germanwings and Lufthansa are placed by crew members outside the Germanwings headquarters at Cologne-Bonn Airport on Wednesday morning.
Image source, ReutersBBC Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill tweets, external: "Sad morning in Haltern. Candles and flowers outside the school. And a painted sign - 'why?'."
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said investigators are looking into all possible causes of Tuesday's crash, but have appeared to rule out the likelihood of a terrorist attack, AFP reports.
"The debris from the plane is spread over one-and-a-half hectares, which is a significant area because the shock was significant, but it shows that the plane did not appear to have exploded," it quoted Mr Cazeneuve as telling French radio station RTL. The theory of a terrorist attack is "not the theory we're focusing on," Mr Cazeneuve said.
Police in the Spanish region of Catalonia say they are in the process of taking DNA samples from relatives of passengers in the vicinity of Barcelona Airport. A Catalan newspaper reported that at least 32 people had given samples.
The mayor of Seyne-les-Alpes near the site of the crash says that bereaved families are expected to begin arriving in his town shortly, AP reports. Mayor Francis Hermitte said that residents are offering to host the families because of a shortage of rooms to rent.
More images from the Joseph-Koenig-Gymnasium high school in Haltern am See, Germany, as students comforted each other on Wednesday morning.
Image source, Reuters