Volkswagen’s first-half earnings exceeded market expectations, sending its shares up the most in three months, as its namesake car brand showed signs of recovering from the emissions-cheating scandal and started to benefit from cost cuts.

The man suspected of murdering the heir to a Germany banking dynasty led a church youth group and headed a fan club of Frankfurt’s football team that the 11-year-old victim passionately supported, investigators said Wednesday.

The 11-year-old heir to one of Germany’s oldest banking fortunes who was kidnapped and found dead in a lake was probably strangled or drowned, prosecutors said today.

THE body of the kidnapped 11-year-old heir to a German banking fortune was found yesterday

The body of the kidnapped 11-year-old heir to a German banking fortune was found today by police combing woodlands near Frankfurt.