11.   Blair and Ahern met for head-to-head talks in the Austrian capital ahead of the year-end summit of European Union leaders.

12.   Buzek said Poland hoped to boost trade between the two countries and wanted to encourage Austrian capital to participate in the privatization of Poland industries.

13.   Cathedral and church bells throughout the world chimed to mark the occasion, and a choir marked the event in the Austrian capital Vienna.

14.   Commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London, it was first performed in the Austrian capital, Vienna.

15.   Delegates of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries expressed diverging views about what to do when they officially meet Wednesday in the Austrian capital to reassess their current output.

16.   Details of how the euro-zone will be represented at the International Monetary Fund and other world bodies are also expected to be finalized in the Austrian capital.

17.   Earlier, Austrian radio cited him as saying that U.N. offices in the Austrian capital faced cost-cutting as part of a general overhaul of the United Nations.

18.   Europe needs a new, joint policy on refugees, interior and justice ministers from the European Union agreed Thursday at an informal meeting in the Austrian capital.

19.   EU finance ministers are expected to make those issues a central theme of their meeting Friday and Saturday in the Austrian capital of Vienna.

20.   It follows postponement of a British trade fair in the Austrian capital.