A former driving instructor dubbed the “Black Widow” of the French Alps denied drugging her husband and then burning him to death in his car.

French police were questioning a 48-year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two young children.

A British father is being questioned in France on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children, local police said.

The British Foreign Office is “urgently” investigating reports that a British man has been arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children in France.

Two skiers were killed in an avalanche and a hiker fell off a cliff to his death in separate incidents in the French Alps today, rescuers said.

A French guide and two Swiss clients were found dead today after being buried in an avalanche near the Megeve ski station in France, police said.

Two people were killed and three others were injured today during an avalanche in the French Alps, mountain police said.