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New UN, international efforts to engage Iran
International officials pursued a two-pronged effort Wednesday to engage Iran over concerns the country may have worked on nuclear weapons, with a U.N
Swiss opera diva Della Casa dies at 93
Famed for her beauty that matched her serene voice, Swiss-born diva Lisa Della Casa swept up crowds at opera houses of the past century with an ...
Man strips at Austrian art exhibition of nude men
An Austrian museum says a man took the concept of life imitating art to an extreme when he suddenly stripped at an exhibition of pictures and ...
Norway's men and women win World Cup relay events
Norway won both the men's and women's relay events Sunday at the second biathlon World Cup meet of the season. The Norwegian men used nearly flawless ...
Canada's Maltais wins women's WCup snowboard cross
Defending women's World Cup champion Dominique Maltais of Canada won the first snowboard cross of the season Saturday for her eighth career victory, ...
Fak, Solemdal win biathlon WCup pursuit events
Slovenian biathlete Jakov Fak won a men's World Cup 12.5-kilometer pursuit Saturday for his first career victory. Fak missed two targets before edging ...
Omar Visintin wins World Cup snowboard cross
Omar Visintin of Italy won the season-opening men's World Cup snowboard cross Friday for his first career victory. A former junior world champion, ...
Birnbacher, Domracheva win WCup biathlon sprints
German biathlete Andreas Birnbacher shot flawlessly Friday to win a men's World Cup 10-kilometer sprint for his fifth career victory.
World Cup leader Tina Maze wins super-combi event
Tina Maze of Slovenia won her third race of the season by finishing first in both runs of a World Cup super-combined event Friday to extend her lead ...
Austrian bus driver finds, turns in about $500,000
Vienna's transport authority says a city bus driver checking a bag left behind by a passenger had the surprise of his life — €390,000 (more than ...
Hungary foreign minister slams anti-Jewish remark
Hungary's foreign minister said Wednesday that calls by an extreme-right politician to register the country's Jews as potential security risks were ...
Officials: Serbia's NATO ambassador leaps to death
Serbia's ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a multistory parking garage at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to ...
Max Franz out for 3 weeks with head injuries
Austrian skier Max Franz says he will be out for up to three weeks because of head injuries he sustained in a crash at Saturday's World Cup super-G ...
Austria wins Nordic Combined team sprint race
Austria won the team sprint in the Nordic Combined on the back of strong jumps in the first phase of the World Cup event on Sunday. The Austrian team ...
Key players, positions on Palestinian statehood
The vote is largely symbolic, the outcome nearly assured: The Palestinians and Israelis are closely watching the evolving positions of a few key ...
AP Exclusive: Graph suggests Iran working on bomb
Iranian scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb ...
Saudi-backed religious center opens in Austria
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israel and Hamas to respect their cease-fire but said only mutual recognition of Israel's right to ...
Former Austrian minister on trial for corruption
A former Austrian interior minister and EU lawmaker accused of influence peddling pleaded innocent Monday, telling a court he suspected U.S.
Camera sold for $2.19 million in Austria
An Austrian photo gallery says a camera used by a photographer who documented the life of artist Pablo Picasso has sold for a world record price of €1
Communists take 2nd place in Austrian city of Graz
Communists have scored major election gains in Austria's second-largest city, almost doubling their share of the vote to take second place.
Austria's Schlierenzauer wins ski jump WCup event
Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer earned the 41st ski jump World Cup victory of his career by a tiny margin Sunday after putting down the longest leap ...