This is the most pleasant city in the world
VIENNA — Vienna has dislodged Melbourne for the first time at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index, strengthening the Austrian capital’s claim to being the world’s most...
View ArticlePutin dances with Austrian foreign minister at her wedding
Russian President Vladimir Putin was more “Glee” than KGB as he danced with Austria’s foreign minister at her wedding Saturday. Karin Kneissl was all smiles as she danced with the strongman in a...
View ArticleYou can buy artwork created by this painting panda
A zoo is luring visitors with this new attraction — a painting panda. Yang Yang has learned to use a brush to create her works of art in Austrian capital Vienna. And 100 of them are now being sold...
View ArticleSix hospitalized after leaving farewell note, setting fire to deportation cell
BERLIN — Austrian police say six men have been hospitalized with serious injuries after setting alight the mattresses and bedding of the deportation cell in which they were being held. Vienna police...
View ArticleThis could be the world’s largest Apple collection
VIENNA — An Austrian computer repairman has amassed what he believes could be the world’s biggest collection of old Apple computers, but it might all soon be destroyed unless someone can take it off...
View ArticleThis Krampus parade turns Christmas into a nightmare
Christmas isn’t always a joy-filled holiday. Some towns in the Austrian Alps incorporate Krampus into their parades and traditions. The half-goat, half-man creature is said to punish bad children on a...
View ArticleVienna’s male cheerleaders redefine masculinity
Armed with blue sweatbands, comically tight shorts and a soundtrack heavy on 80s kitsch, the all-male Fearleaders deliver performances that are camp, acrobatic and crowd-pleasingly funny during the...
View ArticleHigh avalanche risk in Alps amid heavy snow that left two dead
BERLIN — Authorities warned Sunday of a high risk of avalanches on the northern side of the Alps, after heavy snowfall in recent days created dangerous conditions across parts of southern Germany,...
View ArticleTrain workers rescue wild goat from snowdrift
BERLIN — Austrian train workers have shut down their track clearing operations to rescue a mountain goat after seeing it get buried in a deluge of snow they had been clearing from the rails. Austrian...
View ArticleThe terrifying moment skiers are swept away by avalanche
This is the moment a group of skiers was swallowed up by an avalanche in the Austrian Alps. Miraculously, no one was injured when the skiers were suddenly enveloped by the falling slab of snow,...
View ArticleAccused New Zealand mosque shooter had link to far-right movement in Austria
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday that there was a financial link between the man accused of slaughtering 50 people at two New Zealand mosques and a far-right group in Austria. Police...
View ArticleMcDonald’s in Austria to serve as mini-embassies for US tourists
As of Wednesday, May 15, staff in any McDonald's in Austria will be available to assist American tourists in making contact with the US Embassy for consular services, such as to report a lost or stolen...
View ArticleAustrians warned to stop kissing cows for bizarre online challenge
Kissing cows — “with or without tongues” — is all the rage in Austria, but it endangers the animals and those smooching them, warn officials. The disturbing trend has been promoted by Swiss app Castl,...
View Article3,000-year-old ‘Cheerios’ found buried at Bronze Age site
Archaeologists discovered the remains of these cereal shaped rings, which look a bit like Cheerios, at a burial site in Austria -- and it could provide insight into what people liked to eat 3,000 years...
View ArticleAustria passes smoking ban in bars and restaurants
“After many setbacks and 18 months of political ignorance it was finally possible to set a law in motion that will improve Austrians’ lives,” Social Democratic leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner said after the...
View ArticleKidnapped triathlete says she sweet-talked captor into letting her go
A champion Austrian triathlete says a van driver kidnapped her while on a bike ride — but that she managed to sweet-talk him into letting her go from his home where he held her captive. Nathalie Birli,...
View ArticleGerman tourist sued over review of hotel with ‘Nazi grandpa’ pic
The owners of a four-star hotel in Austria are suing a German visitor for defamation after he complained online about a photo of a “Nazi grandpa” in a swastika-adorned uniform hanging on the wall,...
View ArticleScientists race to study Austria’s rapidly melting glaciers
Glaciers in Austria, on the eastern edge of the Alps, are particularly sensitive to climate change and have been shrinking even more rapidly than most, making it all the more urgent to examine their...
View ArticleJilted man kills 5 people at ex’s home in Austrian ski town: cops
A 25-year-old man killed five people in an Austrian ski town when he opened fire at his ex-girlfriend’s home, according to reports. The suspect, who has not been named, admitted to officers that he...
View ArticleHarvard’s tortured logic and other commentary
Legal desk: Harvard’s Tortured Logic A federal court recently ruled that Harvard doesn’t discriminate against Asian-American applicants by favoring other minorities, buying the Ivy’s claim that “race,...
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