Friedrich Karl Flick's remains have gone missing from a cemetery in Velden, a town in the southern province of Carinthia.
The coffin was stowed under heavy slabs of granite and police concluded the thieves must have used professional equipment.
Flick, who owned Austria's largest private forest holding and had been at the helm of a German industrial empire, died in October 2006 at the age of 79.
Earlier that year, Forbes magazine put him among the 100 richest people in the world.
INDIAA Dutch couple on holiday in the eastern Indian state of Bihar paid 10,000 rupees (£135) for four samosas that usually don't cost more than a few rupees.
After the tourists had eaten the snacks, a stall owner at the Sonepur cattle fair last week named the price, telling them his "special" samosas cost more because they were made of herbs and had aphrodisiac qualities, the Hindustan Times said.
Following an argument, the couple paid the shopkeeper, but they later complained to a policeman. Police forced the shopkeeper to return the change: 9,990 rupees.
NEPALA young Nepalese climber is trying to persuade mountaineers to use a toilet made from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.
Hundreds of climbers flock to the world's tallest peak every year, with many simply squatting in the open or hunching down behind rocks, as the Everest base camp has no proper toilet facilities.
Dawa Steven Sherpa, who led an eco-Everest expedition in May to collect rubbish dumped by previous climbers, said his team used a plastic bucket as well as a gas-impervious bag designed to safely contain and neutralise human waste and keep in the odour.
"It is portable and very secure," Dawa Steven, 25, said.
During its month-long expedition, they brought down 65kg of human waste produced by its 18 members.
JAPANA senior Tokyo police official tasked with keeping the city's roads clear of drunk drivers has been arrested for driving under the influence.
The deputy inspector, on his way home from a camping site, was caught after bumping into another car and veering off the road, said a police official in Ibaraki.
"He smelled of alcohol and he couldn't walk straight," the official said.
Local media said the arrested official had been in charge of a campaign to stop drink-driving, handing out stickers to bars and restaurants around the city.
"It is inexcusable for a member of the police to have caused this case and we plan to deal with it strictly," Tsutomu Sato, the head of the National Public Safety Commission said.
LITHUANIAThe newly elected parliament of Lithuania has chosen as its speaker a TV talent show host once convicted of making a hoax bomb call as a prank.
The speaker is first in line to lead the ex-Soviet state, which joined the EU and Nato in 2004, if the president dies in office or is dismissed.
The 141-member parliament, the Seimas, elected Arunas Valinskas, 41, by a vote of 79 to 58 in a second ballot after he failed to get a majority in the first vote.
"Is anyone a saint here?" Valinskas asked when reminded that he was sentenced in 1999 for placing the hoax call. He said a bomb had been planted in a hotel where his friends' wedding was taking place.
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JOHN MALKOVICHThe American actor and director is so touched by the plight of migrant children who cross illegally into the United States that he plans to make a documentary about it.
Malkovich says the documentary, which will be entitled Triple Crossing, will seek to humanise the issue of illegal migration.
The film will be produced by Canana Films, a production company owned by Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.
DUCHESS OF YORKTurkey's social services have called for Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, left, to be prosecuted for secretly filming orphanages in the country.
They accuse her of going "against the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy," according to the state-run Anatolia news agency. The Duchess made an undercover trip to Turkey to examine orphanages for an ITV programme aired earlier this month.
Secretly filmed images showed children tied to their beds or left in cribs at an orphanage near the capital city of Ankara.
The government has accused the Duchess of smearing Turkey's image.
MARGUERITE BARANKITSEA woman who provided a safe haven for children in Burundi for the past 15 years is the winner of a $1m (£68,000) faith-based humanitarian award from the Opus Prize Foundation. The fifth-annual Opus Prize was announced at Seattle University.
This year's winner is Marguerite Barankitse, whose organisation set up 500 small houses for orphans of ethnic violence in Burundi. The programme is now being copied in Rwanda and the Congo.
PARIS HILTONThe socialite and her boyfriend of nine months, Benji Madden, have broken up. Hilton publicist Alanna McCarthy said that the two "remain very good friends".
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