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The girl, who died has not been named, and was thought to be travelling with her parents, who have been taken to hospital following the ordeal in the English Channel

Renowned mountain guide David Vigouroux, 50, is among four people to have died during an avalanche in the Valley of Hell in central France at an altitude of 5,250ft

Both the man and the woman were declared dead at the scene by emergency services personnel outside the Palais de Justice in Montpellier, France

The boat's teen pilot is on trial over the December 2022 incident but a refugee charity has filed for complaints, including ‘involuntary manslaughter’, against British authorities

Animal protection group AEPA began investigating a 'house of horrors' back in December and after informing the police they found 117 dead cats stuffed into the 66-year-old's freezer

Police detained the attacker after the incident at around 8am local time in Gare de Lyon train station in Paris at they went on a stabbing frenzy, injuring three people

A group of 70 people had been trying to get into a small boat to launch from a beach in France, to cross the Channel, but it quickly ran into trouble at sea, leading to five people tragically dying

Prince Andrew continues to reel from the recent release of court papers that named him 67 times as they revealed the names of people associated with rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

The 63-year-old French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said she would act as a caretaker head of government until President Emmanuel Macron chose a successor

Police have launched a manslaughter hunt for two people who could be responsible for the deaths of a 54-year-old British woman and her 22-year-old son in a resort near Chamonix, France

French A-list supporters of Hollywood star Gerard Depardieu have come under fire for defending him after signing an open letter over claims of sexual assault on 14 women

It has emerged that suspect Noé Bafania, 33, launched a knife attack on his wife Beatrice, 35, four years ago - but he evaded charges due to his psychological state

The unnamed woman and four young children were found dead in Meaux, 25 miles north-east of Paris, on Christmas Day, with police launching a murder probe before the suspect was arrested

Joanna Parrish was just 20 when she was raped and killed in Moneteau, France in May 1990 by Michel Fourniret - known as the Ogre of the Ardennes - who confessed to her murder three years before his death in prison in 2021

Now 17 years old, Alex Batty has been missing for six years after his mother Melanie, 48, allegedly kidnapped him from the guardianship of his grandma, Susan Caruana, 68, from Oldham in Greater Manchester

The 17-year-old, who spent the last six years living on a commune with his mother, was discovered on a rural road in France this week but had reportedly attempted to enrol in a local school

Teenager Alex Batty from Oldham, Greater Manchester, had been walking for four days when he was found on a roadside in the south of France by a Samaritan lorry driver

Alex Batty - a British child who went missing for six years - confided in a French lorry driver who found him walking alone on an isolated road - telling him "my mother kidnapped me"

Alex Batty, who is from Oldham, Greater Manchester, went missing while travelling with family members in Marbella, Spain when he was just 11 and hadn't been seen since

A British person has been injured and another tourist killed in a hammer and knife attack in central Paris close to the Eiffel Tower before the assailant was arrested

Two Swedish football fans were shot dead and another person injured in Brussels, Belgium, last night ahead of a Euro 2024 qualifier with the gunman - named by Belgian media as Abdesalem L - also dead

All were said to be involved in the disaster last Saturday morning which saw a dinghy overturn in the sea, flinging some 60 people overboard, close to Sangatte, in northern France

Rather than providing them life-saving jackets, the people-smuggling gang loaded six Afghan into several inflatable dinghies and sent them across the Channel from northern France in the early hours of Saturday morning

All members of the British family who were involved in a serious car crash in France are now "out of danger", a local emergency services source said today

Three people – including a British woman aged 40 – are known to have died and several others critically injured in the crash on the A26 motorway in Northern France on Sunday