AUSTRIAN police have arrested an elderly man who they suspect imprisoned, beat and sexually abused his two mentally disabled daughters over a 40-year period.

HEAVY snow and sub-zero temperatures swept across Europe, killing at least eight homeless people in Poland, closing major airports in Britain and Switzerland and causing hundreds of highway accidents.

Heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures have swept across Europe killing at least eight homeless people, closing major airports and causing hundreds of road accidents.

A mystery triggered this week by the bizarre discovery of the carcass of a shark in a freshwater river in northern Austria ended today when the man who put it there confessed it had been a joke.