Activists dressed in black veils pushed prams and held pictures of some of the children killed by Israel during its war against Hamas.

The captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned as cruel and disrespectful.

Thieves in France used a stolen bank card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros (£414,000). But they vanished before cashing in – and now they are among the country’s most famous ...