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Austrian iPhone 3G carrier One has announced their plans for the iPhone 3G. They will be charging €149 for the 8GB and €229 for the 16GB, and from what I can tell from the Google translation, they will be offering one data plan for the iPhone called the iPhone Pack that will cost €14 for 100 SMS and 3GB data, and will require a 24-month contract. The translation was pretty sketchy though, s

The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has elected a new interimistic governor who will participate in the meetings of the European Central Bank (ECB) from September 1. The 64 years old Professor Ewald Nowotny will follow the present governor Klaus Liebscher - one of the hawks in the ECB's governing council - who is going to retire by August 31. Nowotny, a declared social democrat, can look back

Sexy Soccer 2008 is girls matches played in Vienna, Austria, during EURO2008. Here we have the show between topless Austrian and German girls. Part 1 - the Austrian girls. Their bodies won with 10:5. Click for full size… “Beautiful game” takes on new meaning :-) Coming next - Part 2 [...]

Artist - Austrian Death MachineAlbum - Total BrutalYear - 2008Genre - Metal / Hardcore / ThrashWeb - - San Marcos, California, USATracklist:1. Hello California2. Get to the Choppa3. Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers4. All of the Songs Sound the Same5. I am a Cybernetic Organism, Living Tissue Over (Metal) Endoskeleton6. Come With Me if You Want to Live7. What it’s like to be a Singer at Band Practice8.

As a precursor to Monday's Euro 2008 games in Austria, Austria and Germany fielded 2 womens soccer teams on Sunday. But at the end of the game, they had to forego the traditional shirt swap. The reason? Both teams were clad only in thongs.Organized by an online chat room, the two teams took the field with a mostly male audience, and plenty of media who were all too happy to take a break from cover

Ivica Vastic should be one of the happiest men on the planet today. He may still be, but just not quite as happy as he could be.Vastic plays for Austria's national soccer team competing in the Euro 2008 Championships. Austria is not a huge soccer power, they're ranked 92nd in the world, but they are co-hosts for the tournament with Switzerland. This is the first time the country has played in the

Whether you are cool and watch soccer or you are a stupid American who does not, this should be news you can appreciate. Ivica Vastic of Austria just earned a lifetime supply of beer courtesy of the Austrian government for scoring the tieing goal today in the match against Poland. Austria keeps it real, knowing its [...]

Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player, dies at 39 Horst Skoff, a former Austrian tennis player who won four ATP Tour titles, died during a business trip to Germany. He was 39. Austria’s tennis federation said Skoff died Saturday of a heart attack. Skoff’s friend, Arno Puckhofer, said federal police had ordered an autopsy to verify the cause of death. Puckhofer told Austrian news agency APA tha

Sparkle for everyday. This contemporary-styled watch has the look of fine jewelry with the shine of Austrian crystals. Round crystals on the case and princess cut square crystals on the bracelet complete this fashionable look. Easy time telling with mother of pearl dial and hand-applied Arabic numerals at 12 and 6.

A child crying next to a decapitated doll. A man with pipes protruding from his face. That’s just a sampling of intriguing images on view in the Austrian capital that all share the same label: bad painting that makes good art. Curators of a new exhibit at Vienna’s Museum of Modern Art say the phenomenon began [...]

New details have emerged on Josef Fritzl, the father who held his daughter as a sex-slave in the family basement for 24 yrs, on his past life as a WWII survivor, sex predator, and now magnet for love letters in prison.

Mauer Hospital, where 19-yr-old Kristen is undergoing treatmentNew details have emerged about the father who kept his daughter locked away in a cellar-dungeon for 24 years. Details which reveal a man whose early life was dominated by the ravages of World War II and a propensity for sex crimes and who has now attracted the attention of "lovestruck" female fans.The story of 73-yr-old Austrian Josef

STEGERSBACH, Austria, - An unlucky Austria goalkeeper who finds out on Wednesday he has not made the number one spot for Euro 2008 should learn from Germany's Oliver Kahn, Austria coach Josef Hickersberger said on Tuesday.Hickersberger will tell either Alexander Manninger or Juergen Macho they are his first choice 'keeper after delaying what he called his 'gut decision' until three days before the

1/2 c. butter, softened1/2 c. sugar1 tsp. vanilla1 egg, separated1 1/4 c. sifted all purpose flour2/3 c. chopped almondsRaspberry jam Beat butter, sugar, vanilla and egg yolk in medium sized bowl until fluffy. Stir in flour; gather dough into a ball; chill several hours. Roll level teaspoon of dough into balls. Dip into slightly beaten egg white; roll in almonds. Place on ungreased cookie shee

Josef Fritzl, Man who kept daughter sex-slave captive 24 yearsNew details have emerged in the story of the Austrian man who held his daughter captive as a sex-slave for 24 years in the family's secret cellar-prison. Police now say there are more hidden unsealed rooms yet to be investigated in Josef Fritzl's cellar-prison of horror.According to the Daily Mail, the cops have completed an investigati

The Austrian Rugby team has responded to their 48-0 thrashing by Lithuania on Saturday by staging a mass striptease in the capital, Vilnius, on Saturday night.The team was captured on camera during the public strip and the video has ended up on social community website Virb. The video shows a group of about 20 men singing and stripping off their kit on a Vilnius street while people in a bar clap a

Денеска нашата менаџерка Латифа Шиковска имше средба со заменик конзулатот Сабине Кернталер во Аустриската амбасда во Скопје. Имавме многу пријателски разговор со Г-ѓа Кернталер во кое покажуваше голем интерес за пр

All DBKP stories and videos about the singularly bizarre case of Joseph Fritzl, the Austrian father who held his daughter captive in a basement dungeon--built with the help of a government grant--for 24 years. Kept as a sex slave and raped by her father, Elizabeth Fritzl fathered seven children by him.UPDATED: May 7, 2008DBKP Joseph Fritzl stories:* Real Life X-file: Man Locked Daughter Away for 24 Years as a Sex Slave* Austrian Father Who Locked Sex Slave Daughter in Basement for 24 Years: New Details Emerge* Father Who Locked His Daughter in Basement 24 Years: TV, Note Play Part in Escape* Father who Held Daughter Captive 24 Years: Prior Sex Assault Alleged* Father Who Held Sex Slave Daughter in Basement 24 Yrs: Govt Grant Used for Dungeon* Austrian Father Threatened Basement Captive Sex

All DBKP stories and videos about the singularly bizarre case of Joseph Fritzl, the Austrian father who held his daughter captive in a basement dungeon–built with the help of a government grant–for 24 years. Kept as a sex slave and raped by her father, Elizabeth Fritzl fathered seven children by him. UPDATED: May 7, 2008 DBKP Joseph [...]

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If we had no idea who these two were then we might think to ourselves, look at this lovely couple celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2006, perhaps someone’s parents or grandparents, they seem so happy. We wouldn’t know that the man in the photo was a bonafide monster. Even Monsters Have Feelings More photos and details have [...]

New details have emerged in the story of the Austrian man, Josef Fritzl, who held his own daughter as a sex-slave captive for 24 years: how another man may have been involved plus recollections of Fritzl as a sadistic bastard to his wife of 51 years, Rosemarie; of his treatment of Elisabeth as a small [...]

The wife of an Austrian man accused of holding their daughter captive for 24 years fought to keep the troubled family together but never knew their child was in a soundproofed cellar beneath the apartment, the wife's sister said. Josef Fritzl's sister-in-law provided intimate details of the oppression inside the Fritzl home, describing him as a "tyrant."Christine R. painted the most complete pictu

More details have emerged in the horrific story of the Austrian man who kept his daughter locked up as a sex-slave for 24 yrs, how she unwittingly helped her father to build the prison of horror that her father sentenced her to. It’s also been revealed that some of the children she bore her father [...]

I was shocked to hear about this abuse story. Austrian devil Josef Fritzl had abused his daughter Elisabeth since the age of 11, and locked her up when she was 18 in a windowless cellar for 24 years. Elisabeth was forced to bear seven of her father's children. Six children survived and only three of them were taken upstairs and adopted by Josef Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie.

Entrance to Mathausen Concentration Camp, Linz, Austria New details have emerged in the case of the Austrian father, Josef Fritzl, who kept his own daughter captive in a makeshift basement prison for 24 years and fathered seven of her children. Fritzl’s threat to turn his basement prison into a “gas chamber” has some attempting to connect [...]

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who admitted to have kept the proper son in captivity during 24 years, would have worked in the construction of a hydroelectric in Brazil in the decade of 60, according to a news article of the Austrian periodical Kurier. In accordance with the periodical, the information was gotten with a former-colleague of Fritzl. according to news article, the technician in electronics worked, up to 1967, for the Voest Alpine, a company specialized in the construction of plant hydroelectrics in the world all with headquarters in the Austrian city of Linz. Today, the department of the Voest that took care of of the hydraulical equipment construction, the VA Tech Hydro, belongs to one another company, of Andritz name. The ne

Government Grant Paid for Secret Dungeon New details have emerged in the case of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian father who held his daughter captive as a sex-slave for 24 years in a secret basement prison and fathered all seven of her children. How Fritzl was able to get a government grant for thousands of pounds to [...]

An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a "monster", confessed on Monday to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, prosecutors said.Josef Fritzl, 73, "has admitted building the dungeon and to holding his daughter and three children there," prosecution spokesman Gerhard Sedlacek said.Fritzl also admitted incest "but insisted there was no force involved," said Sedlacek. One of the children died at an early age.Fritzl was scheduled to be brought before an investigating magistrate on Monday evening and face several more days of questioning over the case which has shocked Austria.Fourteen police meanwhile scoured the three cramped underground rooms in the family house in Amstetten, eastern Austria, where Elisabeth Fritzl and her children were held

More details have emerged in the story coming out of Amstettin, Austria, of the father who now admits he locked his daughter in the dungeon like basement of his home for 24 years and that he committed “incest” with her. The Sins of The Father Josef Fritzl Josef Fritzl admits he not only locked his 19-year-old daughter Elisabeth [...]

A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said.   Police said Josef Fritzl also confessed to burning the body of a baby that died after birth at the house in Amstetten, in the province of Lower Austria.  Authorities are caring for the [...]

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The identified Austrian as Josef F., of 73 years, was imprisoned in this sunday under suspicion to have hidden its son in a bilge per 24 years and to have had up to seven children with it, according to information of the policy. The existence of the woman, identified for the police as Elisabeth F. was discovered later that one of its children was seriously sick and had that to be taken to a hospital, last week. The information are of that the son of Elisabeth would have led also obtains a letter of the mother, what would have taken the policy to initiate searches, in the house of the suspicious one, where it was found in Saturday. Elisabeth F. was had as disappeared since 1984. At the time was arrived to raise it the h

Austrian director Johann Kresnik’s production of Verdi’s Masked Ball is set to open in an east Germany opera house located in Erfurt. Kresnik claims his show, the stage set with the “ruins of the World Trade Center” to be a populist critique of “modern American society”, aimed at showing the “disparities between the rich and the [...]

I just wrote an article for the Middle East Times regarding Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) new strategy. For an extensive coverage of AQIM, please visit The Croissant (available to subscribers only). To read the full article, please click here . Here is an excerpt: Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb - or AQIM - kidnapped two Austrian citizens in Tunisia on Feb. 22. The hostages are reportedly being held in northern Mali and Austrian authorities, with the help of Libya, are trying hard to obtain...(read more)

Reuters -- An al Qaeda affiliate holding two captured Austrians has extended by one week, to midnight on Sunday, its deadline for Austria to meet its demands, according to an Internet posting monitored on Monday.Austria had said on Sunday the deadline had been extended for an unspecified time.The U.S.-based terrorism monitoring service SITE Institute said Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb posted the note to Jihadist forums.In a SITE translation, the group said the extension was "the final opportunity from the Mujahideen to absolve their responsibility before the families of the two hostages and the Austrian people, and to allow adequate time for the state of Austria to respond to the legitimate demands."

The SITE Intelligence Group has released an announcement from Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, in which it stipulates demands for the release of two Austrian tourists taken hostage this week. The demands provide three days for the Tunisian and Algerian governments to release prisoners. The message includes 6 images showing one of the hostages and a woman to his side with an obscured face and headscarf, who is likely the other hostage (see two such images below, courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group)....(read more)

Two Austrian tourists abducted in Tunisia and believed to be held by al Qaeda's north Africa wing have been moved by the kidnappers to Mali, an Algerian newspaper said on its Web site.Ennahar quoted sources as saying the couple had been taken across the Sahara desert by an armed group from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and reached the Sahel region after a four day journey through the area between Algeria and Libya."Ennahar obtained information that the group has already returned to its bases in the Sahel on the territory of the republic of Mali," said the site.Analysts said the fact the kidnappers had announced the abduction suggested they were ready to negotiate and pointed out that the group had seized hostages to raise money in the past.Update: Al-Qaeda posts photo of Austrian hostage

The image shows a Schengen border post between Austria and Germany. If this is how you think it is between Austria and Slovakia think again.Slovakia became part of the Schengen zone on 21.12.2007. This means no border controls at borders that Slovakia shares with Austria, the Czech Republic and Hungary. However Austrian police are finding ways to undermine this new freedom. About two weeks ago I hired a car in Bratislava and drove to Vienna for the afternoon. It is only about one hour's drive. On returning, we were waved down right at the former border between Austria and Slovakia by Austrian police who then tried to extort 150 euros out of me. I will explain.They had set up a speed camera right AT the border. Within 100 m of the border the speed limit reduces from 70 kph to 50 kph. Rememb

Pre-School test for you:In the picture below, in which direction is the bus travelling?To the left or to the right?Can't decide?Again, look closely at the picture! you still don't know? Preschool childeren were asked the same question about this picture. 90% answered as follows: "The bus travels toward the left."When asked: "Why do you think that the bus is travelling toward the left?" they answered:"Because you can't see the door that lets you get onto the bus!"Have a nice day! :) 

"Austrian Cartoon Award" es un certamen de humor dedicado al mundo del fútbol, los participantes pueden presentarse a concurso con caricaturas o mediante viñetas de humor gráfico... ya están inscritas más de 500 obras procedentes de muchos lugares del planeta y aún hay hasta el 28 de Febrero para participar. La primera ronda se supera mediante votación popular y finaliza el 31 de marzo.Al final me he decantado por esta caricatura de Messi... desde aqui animo a todos a participar o en su defecto, a los fanáticos de este deporte, a pasarse y votar pues muchas están realmente bien...Gracias a Kap por el aporte.

The officers and soldiers of the barracks in Gratkorn, Austria, were shocked when it appeared that their colleague Gregor had changed into Jasmin during his holiday. The 46 year old captain complained about stress and took a three month holiday. He returned to the Army ‘reborn’, because during his absence he underwent a sex change operation. Jasmin doesn’t have to fear about losing her job. The Army has decided to respect the captain’s sex change. “We will not challenge this very personal decision”, an Army spokesperson declared. Though it will be hard for her colleagues to adapt to this extraordinary situation. “We must wait and see if any problems may arise”, said one of the soldiers in the barracks, “He left the building a man and

Talking about Austria, what’s coming to your mind? Red Bull? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Ever heard of “Linzer Torte”? It doesn’t give you wings, neither can it protect you from crazy machines from the future, but boy - it tastes great in winter!

Chairman and Chief Executive of Austrian Oil and Gas Group (OMV AG) Wolfgang Ruttenstrofer said talks are underway on a project on transfer of liquid gas from Iran to Austria.Monday issue of Austrian daily Uberstreichen Nachrichten quoted Ruttenstrofer as saying that Iranian gas fields are the biggest in the world and his company will undertake a part of a exploration project on which it is highly skilled.Asked on the US pressures in that connection, Ruttenstrofer said his company has thus far observed current regulations.A Dlrs 30 billion contract was signed between OMV AG and National Iranian Oil Company for transfer of liquid gas from Iran to Austria. Via: Islamic Republic News Agency

Chairman and Chief Executive of Austrian Oil and Gas Group (OMV AG) Wolfgang Ruttenstrofer said talks are underway on a project on transfer of liquid gas from Iran to Austria.Monday issue of Austrian daily Uberstreichen Nachrichten quoted Ruttenstrofer as saying that Iranian gas fields are the biggest in the world and his company will undertake a part of a exploration project on which it is highly skilled.Asked on the US pressures in that connection, Ruttenstrofer said his company has thus far observed current regulations.A Dlrs 30 billion contract was signed between OMV AG and National Iranian Oil Company for transfer of liquid gas from Iran to Austria. Via: Islamic Republic News Agency

ALMIGHTY DOLLAR35th International Annual Conference Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS)http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/aaas/Velden am WörtherseeOctober 24 - 26, 2008The dollar, Washington Irving wrote in 1837 at the height of a financial panic, is daily becoming more and more an object of worship. This saying is a useful reminder that the national monetary icon has never been simply an economic issue; it has also always been a cultural issue.We therefore invite proposals for papers that consider peoples engagements with the Almighty Dollar, from the most ordinary, mundane daily practices to the most extra-ordinary, life-changing ones. Since such engagements can be found in literature, the arts, film, and popular culture, the possibility of topics is wide open, so long as they connect to the meanings of and the increasingly thin line between the dollar and the people who make, use, and consume it.We look forward, then, to proposals from a wide variety of disciplines incl

Austrian Airlines guarda con interesse sempre più forte all’Est Europa inaugurando nuove rotte di rotte in codeshare. Il vettore ha chiuso un accordo con AirUnion per 17 nuovi collegamenti verso l’area, tra cui Mosca-Vladivostok, Mosca-Tashkent (Uzbekistan) e Mosca-Dushambe (Tajikistan). Austrian ha inoltre accelerato i servizi online per i clienti: “Le destinazioni che possono sfruttare e-ticketing sono oggi il 71% del totale; stiamo ampliando inoltre il web check-in a tutte le nostre mete”. Austrian  migliora anche il servizio a bordo in business class: “Dal prossimo settembre riallestiremo 4 A320 equipaggiando la business con nuove poltrone sleeper” spiega Cinzia Fabbris, direttore Italia del vettore. I 4 aeromobili serviranno alcune tratte per il Medio Oriente.

In a recent study, dogs were able to distinguish between different pictures on a computer screen. Four dogs strutted their stuff recently by using touch-screen computers to classify color photographs for a study of animal cognition. […] In order to test whether dogs can visually categorize pictures, and transfer their knowledge to new situations, four dogs were shown landscape and dog photographs, and expected to make a selection on a computer touch-screen. In the training phase the dogs were shown a landscape photo and dog photo simultaneously on a computer screen. When they nose-selected the dog, they received a treat. To test whether the canines could transfer the learned info to a new situation, the researchers flashed onto the screens a different set of dog-landscape photographs. Sure enough, the four-legged subjects chose the dog photographs. […] The results indicate, according to the authors, the dogs were able to form a concept of a “dog.” Whether the

(ANSA) - ROMA, 13 NOV - Il caro-greggio e il continuo aumento del costo del kerosene, che ha raggiunto nuovi livelli record, spinge al rialzo il prezzo dei biglietti di Austrian Airlines. La compagnia ha annunciato che dal 19 novembre prossimo ci sara’ un incremento di 10 euro del supplemento carburante per i voli a lungo raggio, che passa dagli attuali 67 euro a 77 euro per tratta. Rimarra’ invariato, invece, il supplemento carburante di 14 euro per i voli a corto e medio raggio. L’aumento, spiega una nota di Austrian Airlines verra’ applicato sulle rotte dove il consumo di carburante e’ maggiore a causa delle lunghe distanze percorse. Un Boeing 767 sulla rotta Vienna-New York-Vienna, ad esempio, consuma circa 90 tonnellate di kerosene.

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La compagnia aerea giapponese Ana sta estendendo gli accordi di code-share con Lufthansa ed Austrian Airlines, in modo da includere dieci nuove destinazioni in Germania e nove internazionali dall’hub di Francoforte. L’operazione è in tre fasi, la terza delle quali al via il 28 ottobre, quando saranno inserite Copenhagen, Helsinki, Lione, Nizza, Oslo e Stoccolma. Fonte: Guida Viaggi

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A causa del continuo aumento dei prezzi del greggio e del costo del kerosene che ha raggiunto nuovi livelli record, il Gruppo Austrian Airlines annuncia un incremento di 2 euro del supplemento carburante per i voli a corto e medio raggio, che passa dagli attuali 12 a 14 per tratta. Per i voli a lungo raggio l’aumento sarà di euro 5, portando il supplemento dagli attuali 62 a 67. L’aumento sarà applicato su tutti i biglietti acquistati ed emessi a partire dal 1 ottobre 2007. Fonte: Guida Viaggi

Three alleged al-Qaida sympathizers arrested in connection with an online video threat against Austria and Germany may have had links to the Army of Islam, a shadowy group that kidnapped a BBC journalist earlier this year, said SITE Intelligence Group. More...

For decades, the Austrian town of Güssing was a forgotten outpost not far from the rusting barbed-wire border of the Iron Curtain. Now it's at the edge of a greener frontier: alternative energy. Güssing is the first community in the European Union to cut carbon emissions by more than 90 percent, helping it attract a steady stream of scientists, politicians and eco-tourists. "This was a dead-end town and now we're the center of attention," said Maria Hofer, a lifelong resident, as she bought organic vegetables at a farmer's market. "It seems like every week we read about new jobs from renewable energy." Güssing's transformation started 15 years ago when, struggling to pay its electricity bill, the town ordered that all public buildings would stop using fossil fuels. Since then, Güssing has fostered a whole renewable energy industry, with 50 companies creating more than 1,000 jobs and producing heat, power and fuels from the sun, sawdust, corn and cooking oil. Signs reading "

On August 9, 2007 the Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo will be awarded a gold medal of honour federal land Salzburg, the capital of which is a major music festival. Tenor will award almost exactly 32 years after his Salzburg debut on August 11, 1975, reported France Presse. Domingo, unlike younger stars, loyal to the Salzburg [...]

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At least three Austrian companies are studying the possibility of becoming involved in the „green energy” business in Indonesia to help boost the development of biodiesel. „Energea, BioDiesel International and the Christof Group are discussing the biodiesel business with a number of leading Indonesian agribusiness companies,” Austrian Commercial Counselor Raymund Gradt was quoted as saying by Tuesday’s English daily The Jakarta Post. „The three Austrian companies could provide the technology to build biodiesel refineries jointly with local firms,” he said. He declined, however, to name their Indonesian counterparts as the two sides had been in discussions for more than a year, but had yet to reach any deals.The three Austrian companies are leading technology solution providers for biodiesel production and currently produce a total of 440,000 tons of biodiesel per annum, more than half of their country’s annual demand of around 700,000-800,000 tons. They are on a

POERTSCHACH, Austria — Luis Horna of Peru upset third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 on Tuesday in the second round of the Hypo Group International.   The No. 7-ranked Ljubicic produced 10 aces and missed the only break point in the first set, but lost the tiebreaker 7-5 to Horna, who is ranked 82nd. Horna lost only two points in his service in the second set, using an early break to seal the victory. Fourth-seeded Lleyton Hewitt defeated more…

An Austrian MP on Wednesday supported gas deal between Iran and his country's National Oil and Gas Company (OMV). Kurt Eder, who is head of economic commission of Austrian parliament, also told IRNA in an exclusive interview that the Europe economy requires gas to provide its energy. "I assume the mutual agreement completely correct, and support signing the gas deal," he said. Pointing to the

VIENNA, Austria: Cuba on Wednesday protested the decision by an Austrian bank recently bought by a U.S. consortium to stop serving Cuban customers. "For us, this action is unacceptable," Norma Goicochea Estenoz, Cuba's ambassador to Austria, told reporters at the Cuban Embassy. BAWAG P.S.K., linked to the collapsed U.S. commodities broker Refco, was bought in December by a consortium headed by New York-based private equity company Cerberus Capital Management. Since U.S. law prohibits not only American businesses but also their subsidiaries abroad from conducting any commerce with Cuban nationals, the bank said earlier this month it had terminated its relationship with its Cuban customers. The consortium won a bid to buy BAWAG in mid-December. EU regulators cleared the sale at the end of February and the takeover is expected to be completed next month. Goicochea Estenoz, speaking in Spanish through a translator, said the embassy had been in touch with several Austrian ministries an

Once in a while I feature a non-Thai model if she happens to appear in one of the Thai publications. Usually the non-Thai models have had too much over exposure already so I often pass them over. But if I really like one I'll post her. This time its Cindy Kurleto who appeared in FHM magazine Thai edition. She is a mix of Austrian and Filipino

Everyone who cares about horses knows about the Lipizzaner of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria. I, in fact, made a blog post here about them not long ago. But not very many people outside of Austria, including here in Canada, are familiar with a breed of horses even more indigenously Austrian than the Lipizzaner. I did [...]

Vienna, April 6 (DPA) A small flock of hens owned by a chicken breeder in Tyrol, western Austria, offer a time-saving alternative to dying your Easter eggs, Austrian media reported Friday. Karin Sprenger’s clucks, cross-breeds between the South American Araucana chicken and local domestic hens - lay green eggs, the report said. The chicken farm owns only 10 of the Easter egg producing hens, originally acquired from a local animal fair. Shape and taste of the eggs were similar to normal eggs, Sprenger said. The only downside was that the chickens lay eggs only every other day, so the supply of the light green eggs is limited. The chicken themselves are more mundanely coloured - black, grey or brown. The colour of an egg is determined in the last five centimetres of the hen’s fallopian tubes, where the lime glands are situated. The South American Araucana hen normally lays blue eggs.

An Austrian freelance journalist missing for six days while climbing Mount Sibayak was found alive in Sibolangit district in North Sumatra on Wednesday.Karo Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ricky F. Wakanno said that Franz Resch was found at 2:30 p.m. by residents who then reported it to the search team.He said that Resch told the police he got lost on the mountain and could not find the way back to his hotel in Brastagi.

Indonesian searchers Sunday combed a volcano on the island of Sumatra for an Austrian tourist reported missing after he set off to scale the mountain, police said.Police said Franz Resch, had set off to climb the jungle-clad 2,174-meter (7,260-foot) Mount Sibayak from the hill resort town of Brastagi last Tuesday and was reported missing Friday by staff at the hotel where he was staying. "We still have no report of the teams finding any trace of the tourist," said Second Inspector Harahap, on duty at the Tanah Karo district police in Kabanjahe, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of North Sumatra's capital Medan.

 Updated April 18, 2008    Estonian Estonian Pulp and Austrian Andritz have started to construct a plant for production of Chemi-Thermomechanical Pulp (CTP) and cardboard in Dedovich region of Pskov area. The aggregate amount of invested funds in a project totals more than € 1 billion.    The construction consists of ...