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  • 1 Dead in Austrian Pileup With up to 100 Vehicles
    A fire department official says up to 100 vehicles have collided on a snow-slicked stretch of an Austrian highway, leaving one person dead. Franz Resperger of the Lower Austrian fire department says the accident occurred late Tuesday about 60 kilometers (nearly 40 miles) west of Vienna. The string of damaged vehicles stretched more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles). State...
    March 27, 2013 0:19
  • Austria’s president says Nazi past can’t be forgotten
    ՛Austria cannot draw a line under its Nazi past despite the desire of many Austrians to so do, its president said on the 75th anniversary of the country’s annexation by Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler and his troops marched unopposed on March 12, 1938 into an Austria weakened by political and economic turmoil and were cheered by hundreds of thousands of people, many...
    March 12, 2013 21:58
  • What city has world’s best quality of life?
    Vienna, famous for its hundreds of museums, 2000 parks and of course its roasted coffee, is the best place on the planet to live, according to Mercer’s 2012 Quality of Living Index. This year’s latest accolade makes Vienna number one in the world for the fourth year in a row. The annual survey by the global human resources consulting firm points not just to...
    December 5, 2012 14:03