OTTO VON HABSBURG, the oldest son of Austria-Hungary’s last emperor and the longtime head of one of Europe’s most influential families, has died.

FILM-MAKER Leni Riefenstahl, reputed to be Adolf Hitler's lover and whose hypnotic depiction of the German dictator's Nuremberg rally, Triumph of the Will, was renowned and despised as the best propaganda film ever made, has died, aged 101.