Air Crash: The cockpit voice recorder from a German airliner was found yesterday amid the shattered wreckage on a charred French mountainside. Recovery teams flown in by helicopter found no signs of life. There had been 150 people on board. …

Philippines: The government lowered its estimate of storm dead to about 2,500, down from an original figure of 10,000. About 660,000 people are homeless. Most reports are coming out of the city of Tacloban but there’s little information about conditions …