A 70-year-old babysitter has been found guilty of manslaughter in Germany for the killing of a seven-year-old boy she was looking after.

Four people are presumed dead in south-west Germany after rainstorms triggered flooding that left one small town littered with debris and rubble.

Three people are thought to have died after floods struck south-west Germany.

German and French anti-nuclear demonstrators slowed a trainload of radioactive waste on its way from a French reprocessing plant to a disputed dump in northern Germany, chaining themselves to the track on both sides of the border.