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Schwarzenegger lauds Austria's environment record
Arnold Schwarzenegger is praising Austria — and not because it's the country of his birth. Arriving in Vienna on Wednesday ahead of the launch of his ...
Austrian charity plans to move into Hitler's house
An Austrian charity that helps immigrants reportedly plans to set up an office in the house where Adolf Hitler was born. The villa in the Upper ...
Roma artist, writer on Nazi atrocities, dies at 79
Ceija Stojka survived three Nazi death camps and then found her life's work: Raising awareness of the Nazis' persecution of Roma — also known as ...
Italians seek return of Salieri's remains
Residents of a provincial city in northern Italy are seeking to reclaim the remains of its best-known son, composer Antonio Salieri. Salieri left his ...
New production of Rossini's Cinderella a delight
There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the ...
Austria's Hirscher win slalom before home fans
Marcel Hirscher won a World Cup slalom for the 10th time in his career Sunday, drawing roars from a home crowd that included Austria-born Arnold ...
Tina Maze wins slalom before home fans in Slovenia
Overall World Cup leader Tina Maze rebounded from a close loss with an emphatic slalom victory before her home fans Sunday. The Slovenian has now won ...
Hirscher earns 10th career World Cup slalom win
Marcel Hirscher of Austria earned his 10th career World Cup slalom victory Sunday, and Ivica Kostelic of Croatia took third to win the combined event, ...
Opera about Nazi atrocity shown in Austria
Thousands of children were murdered by the Nazis because they fell short of the Aryan ideal. On Friday, a hushed audience gathered in Austria's ...
Austria backs status quo conscript army
Austrians voted overwhelmingly Sunday to retain their conscript army, with preliminary results showing around 60 percent rejecting the proposed shift ...
US teen Shiffrin wins WCup slalom for 3rd victory
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin interrupted her homework for a couple of hours on Tuesday, giving her enough time to pick up another win in women's ...
Vonn skips Flachau slalom, citing lack of training
Lindsey Vonn is skipping a World Cup night slalom Tuesday because she has not been able to practice enough in the event. Vonn, the defending overall ...
Former Austrian minister convicted of corruption
A court has found a former Austrian interior minister and EU lawmaker guilty of corruption after he fell for a sting operation by two British ...
American Ligety posting best World Cup season
Ted Ligety is writing himself into World Cup skiing history in what is fast becoming his career-best season. Victory on Saturday at the Adelboden ...
McKennis of US wins downhill; Vonn 6th in Austria
Alice McKennis of the United States earned her first World Cup victory by winning a downhill Saturday, and Lindsey Vonn was sixth after returning from ...
McKennis of US takes downhill for 1st WCup victory
American Alice McKennis earned her first World Cup victory by winning a downhill Saturday, and Lindsey Vonn placed sixth on her return from a nearly ...
Vonn: It's 'awesome' to be back on WCup circuit
"Feeling happy and strong" again, Lindsey Vonn is "excited" to be back on the World Cup circuit after a three-week layoff caused by an intestinal ...
Class of 2012: Diploma dilemma for Europe grads
Estelle Borrell knew she wanted to work in law since she was a teenager, when she interned at a court in Versailles, France. "The lawyers in their ...
Austrian Jewish leader says anti-Semitism growing
The leader of Vienna's Jewish community says the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Austria reported to his office have doubled over the past year ...
US teen Shiffrin wins WCup slalom, leads standings
Teenager Mikaela Shiffrin is living up to her billing as American skiing's next big star. She earned her second World Cup title Friday by winning the ...
Vonn returns to Europe, begins training again
Lindsey Vonn is feeling better and has returned to Europe to train. Meanwhile, it's less likely Bode Miller will race this season. Vonn started ...
Fenninger beats Maze; Shiffrin of US 8th in GS
Anna Fenninger of Austria had two near-perfect runs to win a World Cup giant slalom on Friday, while second-place Tina Maze of Slovenia extended her ...
Pony back with circus after Christmas kidnap
A tiny pony is back at its Austrian circus home more than a week after apparently being kidnapped by a woman who wanted to give her sick daughter a ...
Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show
At the end of the evening, the witch was toast Sunday — or more precisely a gingerbread cookie — and the audience at Vienna's Volksoper loved it.
Renowned opera singer in Vienna going strong at 95
It was 1947 in post-war Vienna, and Hilde Zadek remembers taking a deep breath behind the curtain. A rookie on her first opera gig, she was about to ...