Doctors say five people who collapsed after they were given drug-tainted drinks at a Vienna bar are no longer in life-threatening condition.

Police in Vienna say they have arrested a man suspected of poisoning five people by serving them tainted drinks at a bar.

The gods were OK. The giants looked neat and the evil dwarf was scary.

Oil prices rose above $50 a barrel Wednesday on hopes of a nearing end to the global economic slump but concerns that a swine flu outbreak could further depress demand tempered market optimism.

Fears that the spread of swine flu could further undermine demand for crude by cutting air travel pushed prices down near $49 a barrel Tuesday.

The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.’s top anti-torture envoy said Friday.

Oil prices rose but stayed well below $50 a barrel Thursday as rising U.S. crude inventories and a stark demand forecast by the IMF doused investor optimism for a near-term recovery from the global recession.

Worries that a slew of U.S. corporate earnings reports could dent investor optimism about a recovery in the global economy pushed benchmark oil prices below $48 a barrel Monday.

An Austrian writer has gone on trial for allegedly defending and promoting aspects of the Nazi era and publicly denying the Holocaust.

An Austrian newspaper quotes the U.N.’s top torture investigator as saying President Barack Obama’s decision not to prosecute CIA operatives who used questionable interrogation practices violates international law.