Austrian billionaire's corpse vanishes

The coffin holding the remains of billionaire industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick has been stolen in Austria.

The remains have gone missing from a cemetery in Velden, a town in the southern province of Carinthia, according to the Austria Press Agency.

Mr Flick owned Austria’s largest private forest holding and had served at the helm of a German industrial empire.

He died on October 5, 2006, at the age of 79. Earlier that year, Forbes magazine named him one of the 100 richest people in the world.