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Horrified holidaymakers had to watch a man recieve CPR after he fell ill whilst on board a Ryanair flight from Spain back to Manchester Airport - the man sadly passed away

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

Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the reclusive 70-year-old vice-chair of the cosmetics titan L'Oreal, has become the first woman ever to amass a fortune of US$100b - but how much do we know about her?

A British mother and son have died in an avalanche while skiing in poor weather conditions in the French Alps and a British teenager has been seriously injured in a high-speed sledge crash in Austria

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

Susan Caruana, 68, says she'll never be able to forgive her daughter Melanie Batty, 43, after she took her grandson Alex Batty abroad and disappeared for six years with no updates

A family in Scotland are deeply concerned about cyclist Steven Harper after he went missing following a bout of sickness from eating fungi he had foraged

Alex Batty told his mother, Melanie, not to worry as he was capable of looking after himself, before he left the commune in the French Pyrenees with the hope to study at university

Joanna Parrish was raped and strangled by Michel Fourniret whose ex-wife has now been convicted of being complicit in the horrifying crime

Géro Vigney, the director of a college in France, said he tried to alert police that he had spoken to Alex Batty but they reportedly told him to come back later due to policing strikes

Melanie Batty, mother to Alex, wanted to see the Northern Lights in Finland, it was widely understood - but residents near Chalabre, Aude, have spoken out about her plans

Alex Batty, who was found walking through heavy rain on a French country road, had been missing for six years after travelling to Spain with his mother, Melanie Batty, and grandfather, David Batty

Alex Batty has spoken publicly for the first time since returning home to Oldham, Greater Manchester at the weekend. The 17-year-old had been missing for more than six years when he was found in France last week

Alex Batty spoke to his grandmother Susan Caruana for the first time in six years last night after he was found by a medical student wandering through the mountains in southern France

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

French actress Emmanuelle Debever played Louison in the 1982 film Danton alongside Hollywood's Gerard Depardieu, who she went on to accuse of sexually assaulting her

Samuel Paty showed his class cartoons of the prophet Mohammed during a debate on free expression in a class in France - but was later murdered outside the school

Police in France have arrested two men who allegedly preyed on vulnerable people amid the ongoing health panic, providing fake pest control service to get rid of bed bugs where it was not needed

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

Gregorian Bivolaru, 71, is charged with human trafficking, organised kidnapping, rape and organised abuse of weakness by members of a sect, according to French authorities.

Six teenagers in France are set to go on trial for their part in the death of teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by an extremist in 2020 for showing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad

The lorries were reported stolen near Reims, in the heart of France's Champagne wine region, on Saturday but officers were able to locate the vehicles as they had tracking devices

Scientists have previously suggested that certain colours might attract bed bugs more than others such as red being seen as highly attractive - here are the colours which they prefer less