Vienna  - The decline in prices of crude oil during the worldwide recession will have consequences for the medium- and long- term for the international oil industry, said the current President of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Sunday.

Speaking at the start of the 152nd conference of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna, Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos warned that the organization already had to to stop long-term investment due to low oil prices.

Botelho, who is Angola's oil minister, also spoke of job losses worldwide in the industry.

Vienna - Austrian Airlines made a net loss of 429.5 million euros (549 million dollars) in 2008, the company reported Friday.

A statement by the board attributed the loss to "cripplingly high fuel prices" and a "rapidly falling demand for flights due to the economic slump."

Adjustments of 334.4 million euros related to its fleet of aircraft also played a role, the statement added.

The airline is set to be bought by its German rival Lufthansa, subject to approval by the EU Commission in Brussels.

Vienna  - Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl was mainly driven by an abnormal yearning to exert power over his victims, who are likely to suffer the consequences of their ordeal all their life, psychiatric and psychological experts say.

The case of Fritzl, 73, who imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth for 24 years and fathered her seven children, was unique in criminal history, the Austrian forensic psychiatrist Gerhard Haller said.

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.

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