The death toll in a powerful killer storm with hurricane-force winds in northern France tonight has risen to four tonight.

An explosion on the ground floor of the Indonesian embassy in Paris caused a number of injuries this morning, a French radio station reported.

Politicians and religious leaders in France expressed outrage following an anti-Semitic attack on a young mother in which a gang cut her hair and daubed swastikas on her belly.

An anti-Semitic attack on a young mother who was not Jewish has caused “dread” in France.

A gang of men cut off the hair of a young woman and drew swastikas on her stomach as she travelled on a train in Paris with her baby.