A young American woman on a European trip was taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris.

Paris prosecutors are investigating the death of a newborn baby that was thrown out of a hotel window in the city.

A US teenager has been arrested in Paris after her newborn baby was allegedly thrown out of a hotel window and died, prosecutors and French media say. The young woman, who was not named, was taken to hospital to undergo an operation after giving birth and was subsequently placed under police custody,