Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemns ‘act of terror’ in Aschaffenburg that killed two people including toddler

A 28-year-old Afghan man has been arrested after a knife attack in a park in the German city of Aschaffenburg that killed two people, including a toddler, in what the country’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, condemned as an “act of terror”.

With a month left in a campaign for snap elections dominated by debate on immigration and asylum policy, Scholz demanded authorities “explain immediately why the assailant was even still in Germany”.

Austria’s souvenir Mozartkugeln will no longer be made in composer’s home city after factory bankruptcy

Visitors to Salzburg can hardly escape merchandise linked to its favourite son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with T-shirts, golf balls and Playmobil figures in the composer’s image cluttering the gift stores and airport duty-free shops.

But the Austrian city has just lost its exclusive claim to the most beloved souvenir of all – bite-size foil-wrapped Mozart chocolates bearing the musical prodigy’s bewigged likeness.