The centre-right party headed by foreign minister Sebastian Kurz has won Austria's national election, putting the 31-year old on track to become Europe's youngest leader, the country's interior ministry said.

The party of Austria's 31-year old foreign minister came first in a national election Sunday, putting him on course to become Europe's youngest head of government, forecasts suggested.

A person who was wounded in last week's terrorist attacks in Norway has died, raising the death toll from the massacre to 77.

China's leading newspaper, the State-run People's Daily, has claimed that efforts were made to cover up an accident at a tin mine in the south of the country which officially left more than 70 miners dead.