In the wake of a massacre of 147 students at Garissa University College in Kenya by Somali militants, Uganda police has reportedly received "credible" intelligence information that the Somali based Al-Shabaab militant group is planning imminent attacks on schools, colleges and universities on Jinja-Kampala highway, reports the New vision.

Readings from the second black box confirmed on Friday that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately caused the plane crash in the French Alps by accelerating the plane’s descent, reports agencies.

Investigators said Friday that the box revealed that Lubitz repeatedly accelerated the airliner to hasten its collision course with the mountain. This came a day after finding the mangled and blackened flight data recorder from the Alps crash site in southeastern France.

After spending 28 years on death row, a U.S man, Anthony Ray Hinton, was set free on Friday after new ballistics tests contradicted the only evidence – an analysis of crime-scene bullets – that connected Hinton to the slayings, reports the Guardian.

The U.S citizen, 58 years old, was sentenced to die for two 1985 murders that for decades he insisted he did not commit.