Vienna - Austrian police have started to investigate whether the man who abducted and imprisoned Natascha Kampusch was linked to child pornographers, the Oesterreich newspaper reported Friday.

Vienna  - What should have been a cozy night-time conversation in a car in the Tyrolean mountains took a tragic turn, when a young German man and woman died from inhaling exhaust fumes in their snowed-in car, a police spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Investigators assume that the 21-year old woman and the 23-year- old man, both hotel employees in the Soelden ski area, had been sitting in the car for a chat on Wednesday night, turning on the motor and heater for warmth.

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Vienna - Temperatures may be falling and energy prices are still high, but an increasing number of Austrians living in low-energy houses have little to worry about this winter.

Vienna- A project to turn the original Salzburg home of the von Trapp family, featured in the film The Sound of Music, into a hotel was stopped Wednesday by local residents fearing for their peace and quiet.

The town's planning council on Wednesday did not approve the proposal for running a hotel and event location in the villa, after operators could not come to an agreement with locals, who claimed that the hotel would turn into a major tourist destination.

"Reason prevailed," said Manfred Schitter, the head of a local civic group in the quiet, affluent part of Salzburg where the von Trapp family once lived.