Vienna - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday welcomed the agreement between the United States and Russia to draw up a new deal on nuclear disarmament.

US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev pledged after a meeting in London on Wednesday to pursue additional reductions of their nuclear arsenals, by building on the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) arms limitation programme.

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Vienna  - Disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl on Tuesday publicly named his former manager Stefan Matschiner as his supplier of a wide range of doping substances, following Matschiner's arrest Monday night.

Kohl was stripped of his third place in the 2008 Tour de France for using the blood booster CERA, also known as third-generation EPO.

Since 2005, Matschiner had sold Kohl EPO, growth hormone, testosterone and insulin, as well as carrying out performance- enhancing blood transfusions, the athlete told reporters Tuesday evening.

Vienna  - Stefan Matschiner, the former manager of disgraced Austrian cyclist Bernhard Kohl, was arrested Monday night following allegations by Kohl and an Austrian triathlete that he had supplied substances for doping.

Matschiner's lawyer denied that his client had supplied blood boosters to the two athletes, although he admitted another form of doping.

Vienna - Austria on Tuesday began celebrations in memory of composer Joseph Haydn who died 200 years ago and is known as the "father" of the classical symphony.

In Eisenstadt near the Hungarian border, where Haydn served as a composer and musician for the Esterhazy noble family, Austrian President Heinz Fischer opened a large Haydn exhibition.

Fischer said Haydn was "no shooting star" and had slowly but surely built his career.

Born in 1732, Haydn was the son of a wheelwright. From an early age, he received his musical training as a choir singer.