'I’m convinced this is real': Editors insist Germanwings cellphone video exists

French and German journalists who say they have seen a cellphone video depicting Germanwings Flight 9525's final moments are "convinced" and "confident" it is real. However, officials in charge of the investigation continue to raise doubts of its authenticity.

"I’m convinced this is real," Régis Le Sommier, deputy editor of Paris Match, told Today's Savannah Guthrie

"We've checked and investigated and are pretty positive about our source, which is close to the investigation team, so there is no doubt that what we saw are the final seconds of what happened."

"We are very confident about this," added Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief at the German daily Bild, to CNN's Erin Burnett Read more...

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These Parisian Apartments Have Views So Stunning, You'll Want To Move ASAP

Paris may not be the most economically friendly place to live abroad, but there's zero harm in dreaming.

The city is a charming collection of secret gardens and hidden alleys, leading to some of the most petite-yet-functional living spaces we've ever seen.

And many apartments offer glittering views of the beauty known as the Eiffel Tower... right through their windows. In a recent photo series, photographer Jasper White captured the various ways Parisians view the tower from their abodes. Windows, doors and wall crannies frame the city's crowning symbol, allowing it to "play a role alongside the objects within the room," White explains.

How very romantique. We're thinking about moving in (or at least booking an Airbnb). And for those who enjoy a touch of France while staying stateside, there's always a 16-inch Eiffel Tower lamp for your bedside table. C'est la vie

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H/T Laughing Squid

Boehner in Israel: Despite political discord, ‘bonds between our two nations are strong’

House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), in Israel visiting newly reelected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, said that despite "political disagreements from time to time, the bonds between our two nations are strong."Read full article >>

Meet The Smartest Emoji In The Chat Room

The hotly contested digital sticker space has a new face in it today: Sm@rt Stickrs is a startup that’s aiming to elbow its way into your messaging affections with a new type of emoji that gets smarter the more you use it. Read More

You'll need a mirror for Google's new search site

Tired of the boring, old, usual way you search for things on Google? Try Google's perspective-changing new site, com.google.

Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like: A version of Google where everything is mirrored

See also: 10 crafty April Fools' pranks to play on your kids

Besides being a great way to reflect on things — pun courtesy of Google, see tweet below — it's also a pretty clever use of Google's .google top level domain, launched in November 2014

We're always looking ahead, but sometimes it's important to reflect. Change your perspective: http://t.co/oTkpNeurqj pic.twitter.com/4RDyBgjSES

— Google (@google) April 1, 2015 Read more...

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Total Lunar Eclipse On Saturday Will Last For Just 5 Minutes

Keep your eyes on the skies on Saturday morning for what promises to be a spectacular -- if brief -- total eclipse of the moon.

The totality will last for less than 5 minutes, making it the shortest lunar eclipse of the century, according to NASA. During some lunar eclipses, totality can last for more than an hour.

Lunar eclipses occur when the moon enters Earth's shadow. In this case, the moon is entering the very edge of that shadow instead of running right through the heart of it, which is why the eclipse will be so fleeting.

NASA has prepared a map showing where the eclipse will be visible. In the United States, the total eclipse will be observable from the West Coast to the U3 line (which runs roughly along the Mississippi River), while a partial lunar eclipse will be visible east of that line, with sunrise cutting the event short:



More diagrams of the eclipse are available on the Sky & Telescope website.

The eclipse will begin at 3:16 a.m. PT when the shadow of the earth begins to cover the moon. Totality will begin at 4:58 a.m. PT, with the greatest eclipse at 5 a.m. and totality ending at 5:03 a.m. The remaining partial eclipse will last until 6:45 a.m. PT, according to NASA.

Because the moon can look red during an eclipse, the event is sometimes called a "blood moon."

This eclipse is the third in a tetrad, or a period of four eclipses, which began on April 15, 2014. The next and final lunar eclipse in the cycle will be on Sept. 28.

A map of that event is visible here.

For those unable to see the eclipse, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will provide a livestream.

In addition, NASA astronomer Mitzi Adams will answer questions on Twitter (@NASA_Marshall) from 6 a.m. ET until the end of the eclipse.

Fact Checker: Jim Webb’s inaccurate comparison of chief executive salaries in U.S., Germany and Japan

“When I graduated from the Naval Academy corporate CEOs [chief executive officers] made 20 times what the average worker made. Today it is more than 300 times. This isn’t the result of globalization. The average Japanese CEO makes 10 times the salary of the average worker. The average German CEO makes 11 times.”Read full article >>