A violent storm has left some 200,000 households without power across France, including 30,000 in the Paris region, the national electricity provider said.

IT WON’T be long now before Munich’s wintery smells start taking to the nostrils.

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer has been banned from filming an advert in her native Germany over fears she could damage a national landmark.

Parts of southern Germany and eastern Austria have been blanketed with up to 15cm of snow for the second weekend in a row.