Vienna  - The trial of Josef Fritzl starting Monday in the town of Sankt Poelten will see the Austrian who imprisoned and abused his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years facing the rest of his days behind bars.

Around one year after it became public that Fritzl had fathered seven of his daughter's children, the 73-year-old stands not only accused of enslavement, rape, imprisonment, coercion and incest, but also of murder.

Vienna  - Half a week before the Orga

Vienna - The price

Vienna - There was no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced in the past decade, despite increased efforts to help addicts and fight traffickers, according to a study by the European Commission released Tuesday in Vienna.

Although the report did not contain recommendations, it painted a bleak picture of global drug policy, saying it "had no more than a marginal positive influence."

Vienna  - It was case of litterally tracking down a suspect for Austrian police early Monday, when a suspected burglar left marks in the snow leading straight from a break-in in the Upper Austria province across the German border to his garage.

Local police said the 21-year-old suspect was found asleep in his bed in the German hamlet of Messnerschlag, along with cigarettes believed to have been stolen some six kilometres away at a petrol station in Kollerschlag, across the Austrian border.

Bangkok  - Susanne Neumayer-Haindinger, the daughter of famed Austrian singer Peter Alexander, died in an automobile accident over the weekend on Thailand's resort island of Samui, police confirmed Monday.

Neumayer-Haindinger, 51, died about 3 am Saturday (2000 GMT Friday), probably of a head injury sustained after her husband failed to navigate a curve, overturning their car into a ditch, Police Lieutenant Colonel Thanongsak Aksonsom said.

"We think she died of an injury sustained when her head hit the windshield," Thanongsak said in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "She wasn't wearing her seat belt."

Neumayer-Haindinger's husband, who was wearing his seat belt, wasn't injured in the accident.