A 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS has gone on trial in Germany accused of murdering a Dutch resistance fighter in 1944.

A 41-year-old woman is being held by Dutch police on suspicion of killing three young children.

Snowstorms sweeping across Europe stranded hundreds of motorists in northern France and brought chaos to other countries today.

Art thieves broke escaped with a series of Dutch old masters after breaking into a museum in the northern Netherlands overnight.