Almost 600 people were trapped in southern France Monday after flooding damaged the bridge on the only road to a holiday village, with a local mayor saying authorities were working to evacuate them.

Major floods that struck parts of France due to heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday began slowly easing on Saturday. In many areas, clean-up and repair work has commenced. Emergency services ...

Cars partially submerged in a commercial zone in Givors, south of Lyon in central-eastern France, following heavy rainfall in the area on Thursday. Credit...Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/Agence France ...

This is the astonishing moment a cow in southern France was swept away in a ferocious torrent of flood water after heavy rainfall forced school and road closures, with several areas placed on red ...

A car drives in a flooded street near a shopping mall in Givors, central France, after torrential rains and flooding submerged roads and railways. A man walks in a flooded street in Rive-de-Gier ...

France's prime minister said Friday that firefighters and other rescuers have been involved in about 2,300 operations, some of them lifesaving, in what appears to be the biggest flooding in 40 ...

In northern France, average winter rainfall is set to increase, as are precipitation extremes. We can expect more frequent and severe flooding, such as that which affected the Nord-Pas-de-Calais ...

PARIS (AP) — Torrential rains and flooding submerged roads and railways in central France on Thursday, disrupting transportation in the region. National railway operator SNCF halted regional ...