France’s top court has ruled that a law aimed at ending cockfighting is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by supporters of the tradition.

Rescue workers worked through the night to free bodies from the crumpled wreckage of a passenger train that collided head-on with a freight train near France’s north-eastern border with Luxembourg, killing at least five people.

Two trains collided today in north-eastern France close to the border with Luxembourg, killing at least four people, local officials and the French national rail operator said.