An Austrian girl held captive for eight years after being kidnapped as a 10-year old has been found while her presumed abductor committed suicide, police believe, resolving one of the country’s longest-running mysteries. Austrian police said on Thursday that a young woman found wandering in a Vienna suburb the day before had been identified by her family as the kidnapped girl.
Viennese dog owners can now get a "driving licence for dogs" under a new initiative by city officials who thought man’s best-friend’s best friend could do with a bit of brushing up on canine conduct. Though voluntary, this new licence has both written and practical "driving" tests to assess the owner’s competence.
Europe’s weather crisis eased on Thursday as fires were put out in Portugal and flood waters receded in central Europe, but the death toll rose in Romania and Austria after heavy rains. Since June, the flooding in central and eastern Europe has caused 103 deaths, while fires in drought-stricken Portugal, Spain and France killed 37.