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Vienna  - Journalists expecting a scandalous play about the incest case of Josef Fritzl were disappointed Monday when Vienna theatre artist Hubsi Kramar turned the tables and offered a scathing critique of the intense media coverage of the crime.

Addressing the large group of reporters in the audience, Kramar started off the premiere of his play Pension F by suggesting that all camera teams present should be locked into the theatre's cellar.

"And then we'll see how they are doing," Kramar said.

Vienna  - Austria overtook Germany as a beer-drinking nation in 2008 and is now second only to the Czech Republic, the Austrian brewery association revealed on Monday.

Austrians downed 8.6 million hectolitres of beer in 2008, or 109.3 litres per person. Germany fell behind as its consumption per head dropped slightly to 108 litres, while the Czechs are expected to have comfortably defended their top position.

Every Czech drank 159 litres of beer in 2007, according to the latest available figures.

While 2 per cent more of the beverage flowed from Austrian taps in 2008, volumes in traditional beer-drinking countries like Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands fell, the brewery association said.

Vienna - The man who shot dead a Chechen refugee in the Austrian capital is still on the run, the Vienna prosecution said Monday, a day after the arrest of a second suspect in Poland was announced.

Polish police arrested a 31-year-old Russian of Chechen origin near Warsaw on Thursday, on suspicion that he took part in the murder of Umar Israilov, 27, who had sought court action against Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

Vienna- The man who shot dead a Chechen refugee in the Austrian capital is still on the run, the Vienna prosecution said Monday, a day after the arrest of a second suspect in Poland was announced.

Polish police arrested a 31-year-old Russian of Chechen origin near Warsaw on Thursday, on suspicion that he took part in the murder of Umar Israilov, 27, who had sought court action against Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.