Austria's Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel (L) talks to President Heinz Fischer after being sworn in as Interior Minister in Vienna's imperial Hofburg palace January 2, 2007. Austrian Interior Minister Liese Prokop, a former Olympic pentathlon silver medallist, died on New Year's eve on her way to hospital after suffering a ruptured blood vessel, the ministry said on Monday. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer (AUSTRIA)