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Harare  - The wife of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Susan, has died as a result of her injuries sustained in a car crash on Friday, party officials confirmed.

"Morgan is badly bruised and cut, but I'm afraid Susan has died," said Eddie Cross, a member of the MDC executive.

The accident occurred on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road about 100 km south of Harare. Accounts from different officials varied, but James Maridade, Tsvangirai's spokesman said his vehicle side-swiped an oncoming vehicle and rolled three times.

Vienna  - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Friday rejected calls to keep oil prices at present low levels, arguing this would lead to a supply crunch.

Maintaining the current price would help stimulate the economic recovery of oil-importing countries, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Nobuo Tanaka, was quoted as saying by the Financial Times on Thursday.

Venice, Italy  - The skeleton of woman who was probably believed to have been a vampire when she died in the Middle Ages has been uncovered in Venice, news agency reported Friday.

Archaeologists made the find on Lazzaretto Nuovo, one of the hundreds of islands that make up the lagoon city, the ANSA news agency reported.

A brick found lodged in the skeleton's mouth suggests the woman's body was "staked", University of Florence expert Matteo Borrini said.

Vienna  - Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl loved his imprisoned victims in his own way and cared for them, his lawyer Rudolf Mayer claimed Friday, while predicting that his client would spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Fritzl, 73, is set to stand trial from March 16 on charges of enslaving, raping and incarcerating his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children. He is also accused of having murdered one of them.