Conservative ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz is leading a snap election in Austria, called after his coalition with the far-right Freedom Party collapsed in May, according to exit polls.
About 20,000 people have rallied in Moscow to demand the release of people who were arrested during a wave of opposition demonstrations this summer.
Car lovers from around the world have splashed out more than £22 million at an auction for dozens of luxury motors seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea's president amid a money-laundering probe.
An albino hedgehog found in a back garden has been rescued and transported to a new home.
Thousands of mourners have paid tribute to Jacques Chirac after the former French president died at the age of 86.
Hundreds of people have lined up in front of the Invalides monument in Paris to pay public tribute to former French president Jacques Chirac, who died on Thursday at 86.
The US is not planning to blacklist Chinese companies from trading on US stock markets, according to a Department of the Treasury statement. Rumblings of a possible cut-off came on Friday and sent shivers through the markets. “The [US] administration is not contemplating blocking Chinese companies from listing shares on US stock exchanges at this...