A new film based on the story of the Austrian kidnap victim, Natascha Kampusch, shows her being repeatedly raped by the captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.

A man suspected of taking part in the storming of a German poker tournament in which armed robbers made off with €240,000 in jackpot money has surrendered to authorities, police said today.

The mother of Formula One drivers Michael and Ralf Schumacher is in a coma in hospital after suffering a fall, according to reports in Germany.