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.
Vienna - Germany openly criticized Thursday a new United Nations plan on fighting the global drug problem, saying the document did not specifically mention harm reduction measures for addicts.
"To be frank, the draft political declaration does not fully satisfy us," German Ambassador Ruediger Luedeking told UN member countries at a conference of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna.
Vienna - The Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko has been designated as the next international high representative for Bosnia, Austria's Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday.
Succeeding Miroslav Lajcak, who is also Slovakia's foreign minister, Inzko will have the job of overseeing the 1995 Dayton peace agreement, while also mediating between the Croatian, Muslim and Serb ethnic groups.
Vienna - Austrian Airlines made a net loss of 429.5 million euros (549 million dollars) in 2008, the company reported Friday.
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.
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.
Vienna - Germany openly criticized Thursday a new United Nations plan on fighting the global drug problem, saying the document did not specifically mention harm reduction measures for addicts.
Vienna - Half a week before the Orga
Vienna - The Austrian diplomat Valentin Inzko has been designated as the next international high representative for Bosnia, Austria's Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday.
