A german aircraft en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France. At least 37 people were killed and 70 injured in a multi-vehicle collision in Peru. A senior white house official said Washington is committed to a Palestinian state, saying Israel must end the 50-year occupation. Utah's governor signed a law making Utah the only U.S. State to allow firing squads for executions. Nato's new secretary general Iens Stoltenberg was in Ottawa to meet with canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper.