A 20-year-old Romanian survived a 90-minute flight from Vienna to London after stowing away in the undercarriage well of a jet, a Vienna airport spokesman said.
The man, who was not named, was found injured and suffering from hypothermia at London's Heathrow airport on Sunday. He had reportedly survived because the aircraft flew low to avoid bad weather.
Spokesman Peter Kleeman said the incident was being investigated. The plane, which was carrying no passengers, belongs to senior figure of the United Arab Emirates. It had arrived in Vienna last Thursday and had been parked at the airport, according to the Austrian daily Kurier.
Migrants seeking to reach Western countries regularly stow away in aircraft wheel-wells but few survive as they die from cold and lack of oxygen, falling to the ground as the undercarriage doors open before the plane lands.
The Producers actor dies
Greek actor Andreas Voutsinas from The Producers and drama coach to iconic Hollywood stars Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, died in Athens on Tuesday night, aged 77, a former colleague in Paris said.
The Khartoum-born Voutsinas learned his trade in New York, where he entered in 1957 the Actors' Studio, the drama organisation that specialised in method acting set up by On The Waterfront director Elia Kazan.
Over a career that combined cinema and theatre, Voutsinas starred in some 20 films, including The Producers and The Twelve Chairs directed by his friend Mel Brooks.
In his first play in the United States in 1960, Voutsinas directed a young Jane Fonda, and he went on to stage a host of classic and contemporary theatre works.
Drama coach to classic film stars, also including The Graduate seductress Anne Bancroft, Voutsinas moved to France in 1968 and two years later set up his own dramatic arts school.
Eight-limbed boy's successful surgery
An Indian boy with eight limbs whose veneration as a god propelled him in to the public spotlight has been operated on to give him the chance of a normal life, his father said yesterday.
Deepak Paswan, seven, was born in one of the least developed parts of India with a parasitic twin conjoined to his abdomen, which meant he had four legs and four arms but one head.
Hindu pilgrims from the area near his village in the northern state of Bihar used to visit the household to worship him as an incarnation of the god Vishnu, who is often depicted with more than four limbs.
His family, uncomfortable with the attention, appealed publicly for help in March to secure an operation to have the unwanted limbs removed.
21 die in bus crash
At least 21 members of a wedding party were killed yesterday when a bus in which they were travelling rammed into a tree in eastern India, reports said.
Eighteen people were declared dead at the scene and three other passengers died in a local hospital, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted police in Jharkhand state as saying.
The accident occurred when the bus driver lost control of his vehicle and veered off the road, state police officer Sanjay Ranjan told PTI.
About 20 people in the bus were also injured.
Religious icon stolen
A thief broke into the main Orthodox Church in Helsinki, the Uspenski Cathedral, in the early hours of yesterday and stole an icon considered one of its "spiritual treasures", the Orthodox Church said.
The thief entered the cathedral through a small window and also walked out with jewellery that church-goers had donated around the icon called "Kozeltshan's miracle-worker Mother of God", the Orthodox Church said in a statement.
The icon, which is around 20 by 30 centimetres in size, is believed to work miracles as many of the prayers made in front of it have been answered, the Orthodox Church said.
French Muslim 'polygamist' charged
A French Muslim butcher at the centre of a firestorm over polygamy was charged on Wednesday with welfare fraud and his four companions will also face charges, a prosecutor said.
Lies Hebbadj, who runs a halal butcher shop in the western city of Nantes, made headlines after his wife was fined for driving in her full-face veil in April.
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux had threatened to strip the Algerian-born man of his French passport after accusing him of polygamy, which is illegal in France.
Following a nearly two-month investigation, Mr Hebbadj has been charged with welfare fraud and violating labour laws.
The 35-year-old was placed under judicial control, forced to hand in his passport and pay a €10,000 bail before leaving the court house in a police van, hidden from journalists.
'Geezer bandit' strikes again
A notorious Californian bank robber nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" because of his elderly appearance has struck for a 10th time, authorities said.
Since August last year, the robber who appears to be in his 60s or 70s has raided a string of banks in the San Diego area. On one occasion he even appeared before a startled teller with tubes like those used to administer medicinal oxygen inserted in his nostrils.
In Monday's robbery in the San Diego County city of Poway, the suspect walked into a branch of US Bank, pulled out a revolver and handed a demand note before fleeing with an undisclosed sum of cash.