Ueberlingen, Germany - A lost musical work by composer Robert Schumann has been discovered in a public library in Germany, officials in Ueberlingen near the Swiss border said Thursday.

The single sheet contains a piano composition with the title Ahnung (intuition) which Schumann (1810-1856) probably wrote about 1838 and gave to a friend as a present. It had been known from a list kept by his wife, Clara, but was thought to be gone forever.

Berlin - German doctors have successfully removed an 18-kilogram cancerous tumour from a Saudi woman patient, leaving her weighing only 37 kilograms as she goes into rehabilitation.

Capital Health Hospital Group, a Berlin clinic operator, said Thursday it believed the chondrosarcoma, a tumour growing in the bone of the pelvis, was the biggest ever taken from a patient. It had amounted to almost one third of her body weight.

Rome/Berlin - Investigators in Italy and Germany were worried Thursday about the whereabouts of a German couple who had abandoned three children at a pizza restaurant in northern Italy.

Police continued their search for the 26-year-old mother and her 24-year-old male companion, who have not been seen since telling the children Sunday that they were going outside to smoke a cigarette.

Stuttgart - Doubt was raised about Mercedes' future in Formula One racing by a supervisory board member said ahead of Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix.

"Formula One is not accepted among the employees. One has to take notice of that," Helmut Lense, a works council chairman and board member of Mercedes' parent Daimler, told Thursday's edition of the Stuttgarter Zeitung daily.

Lense said that recent workforce meetings at Daimler plants revealed the negative attitude towards the expensive sport and added that Mercedes should pull out of F1.

Berlin - The two parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government have agreed to restrict benefits enjoyed by corporative executives which have been widely blamed for a "culture of greed" in high finance, party sources in Berlin said Thursday.

While there would be no cap on executive pay, which has been proposed in many nations, executives would in future be barred from cashing in their stock options during their period of employment.