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.
The 28-year-old woman recently returned from Mexico, the centre of the outbreak.
When she was admitted to the hospital in the town of Steyr with flu-like symptoms on Tuesday, she set into motion an emergency plan, spokeswoman Christine Doerfel said.
New Delhi - Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone suspect captured during the November terrorist attacks on Mumbai, is more than 20 years of age, according to a medical report submitted Tuesday at a court hearing, news reports said. Special Judge ML Tahilyani on Friday ordered a medical test to determine Kasab's age after the accused claimed he was under 18 and should be tried in a court meant for juveniles.
Stockholm - The SAS Group, operator of the joint carrier Scandinavian Airlines, on Tuesday reported a higher pre-tax loss and lower turnover for first-quarter 2009. The pre-tax loss was 1.02 billion kronor (125 million dollars), compared to a year-on-year pre-tax loss of 
London - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has sent her first royal thank-you by e-mail to 23 young people around the world to mark the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth. The recipients all responded to a Buckingham Palace invitation to write an internet blog on the royal website about their typical day and their thoughts on the contemporary meaning of the Commonwealth, the alliance of 53 nations founded in 1949.
New Delhi, Apr 28: Vice President M. Hamid Ansari on Tuesday acknowledged an immediate need to undertake the challenge of providing gainful employment to millions of youth, who are in need of it.
New Delhi - India's opposition parties on Tuesday strongly criticized the government's decision to strike off Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, allegedly involved in the Bofors guns payoff case, from a list of wanted persons. Quattrocchi is the lone surviving suspect in the arms scandal case from the mid-1980s when the Rajiv Gandhi government finalised a 1.3-billion-dollar deal with Sweden's AB Bofors company to supply the Indian army with 400 Howitzer Field 155 MM guns.
