A new study has revealed that a drug the fights bone loss in women may also have side benefits for fighting breast cancers that are sensitive to estrogen, reducing the chance that the cancer will either spread or return to the body once it is gone. Furthermore, researchers said that the effects stayed around for years after the treatment of the drug, called Zometa, ends.

Researchers at the Medical University of Graz in Austria recently exposed that sunbaths add to the levels of the male sex hormone in men's blood. Apart from oily fish and meat, Vitamin D is also obtained by exposing body to sunlight. As the doses of vitamin D are increased, level of testosterone raises subsequently, the researchers concluded.

Mexican cement company, CEMEX SAB, is pondering over taking legal action against Austria's Strabag SE’s decision of retreating from the Share Purchase Agreement signed between the two companies on June 30, 2008.

Under the agreement, Strabag had to buy CEMEX Austria and CEMEX Hungary from CEMEX SAB for about Euro 310 million.

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.

Vienna  - Troubled relationships, bleak cityscapes, emotional voids: These are some of the topics for which Austrian filmmakers won acclaim and prizes in past years.

Vienna - The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell by 0.52 dollars Wednesday, ending a rally in which the cartel's basket price had gained nearly 13 dollars since December 24.

Moscow/Kiev - Russia has halted all supplies of gas to Western European customers in an escalation of the energy dispute between Moscow and Ukraine, a spokesman for Ukrainian gas monopoly Naftogaz said on Thursday morning.

Innsbruck, Austria - Austrian Wolfgang Loitzl underlined his strong form by dominating qualification Saturday for Sunday's third jump in the Four Hills ski-jumping tournament.

Vienna - The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rose back above the 35-dollar-mark Wednesday, the cartel announced Friday.

One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude stood at 35.58 dollars at mid-week, 0.63 dollars higher than on the previous day.

Vienna - The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) hit its lowest point for four years, the organization's secretariat in Vienna reported Wednesday.

One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude oil stood at 34.49 dollars on Tuesday, down from 36.92 dollars at the start of the week, the cartel said.