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Vienna – Vienna prosecutors said Monday that they had started criminal proceedings against cyclists Bernhard Kohl from Austria and Denmark’s Michael Rasmussen, as well as Austrian Nordic skier Christian Hoffmann, for allegedly running a blood doping operation.

Vienna – While the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) said Wednesday that global production levels had increased in April, it further lowered its demand projections for the year, owing to the ongoing economic downturn.

Vienna – The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reached a high for 2009 of 56.76 dollars on Tuesday, the cartel announced Wednesday.

Vienna – An Austrian food maker lost a court battle over his right to produce blue sugar-coated pumpkin seeds, after US pharmaceutical group Pfizer Inc. said they were too similar to its impotence pill Viagra, Austrian media reported Tuesday.

Vienna – A fifth teenage suspect has been nabbed for having attacked and hurt participants at a memorial event of a former concentration camp in Austria, an Interior Ministry official confirmed Tuesday.

Vienna  – Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said Tuesday in Vienna that US President Barack Obama would face a serious crisis in the Middle East if within a year he did not fix the mistakes made by his predecessor George W Bush.

Vienna – An Austrian hospital put a woman in quarantine Tuesday on suspicion that she was the country’s first patient with swine flu, a spokeswoman of the hospital in Steyr said. A laboratory in Vienna was running additional tests after initial results showed no infection with the virus.

Vienna – A Vienna court on Wednesday jailed a former official convicted of illicitly granting over 900 visas in Belgrade, the latest in a series of scandals embroiling the Foreign Ministry.

Vienna  – Schurli, the giant tortoise, is the oldest inhabitant of the Vienna zoo. But despite his age of more than 100 years, the animal has started a fitness training programme.

St Poelten, Austria  – The jury in the case of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man accused of imprisoning and raping his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years, and the murder through neglect of their baby boy, retired to consider its verdict on Thursday morning.