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Austrian and German victims of the Asian tsunami plan to file a lawsuit in the US charging a hotel chain and weather institutions with negligence for failing to give necessary warnings of the disaster, a statement from the group said.

Ukraine's attorney general reportedly says he has gathered proof that President Viktor Yushchenko was deliberately poisoned in a plot probably involving the government.

The southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt will go ahead with plans to renovate its football stadium to host the 2008 European Championship, the mayor said, despite details of the tender process having been leaked to the press.

Elegance and tradition, as well as people showing off for the media, marked this year's prestigious Vienna Opera Ball that ended in the early morning.

Vienna's Opera Ball, Austria's main high society bash, is going ahead Thursday despite calls by socialists for it to be cancelled in order to contribute its funding to victims of the tsunami in Asia.

A 51-year-old opera company tucked in an alleyway trod by the likes of Mozart, Beethoven and Johann Strauss stages the European premiere of a doo-wop musical that becomes the hottest holiday ticket in Vienna.

Bode Miller set the record straight in more ways than one shortly after winning his third world championship ski crown.

As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may have put it, you get the election you get, not the one you want.

Austrian engineering firm VA Tech, the Austrian Press Agency reported, citing Siemens officials.

An American skier was reported missing following avalanches in western Austria that also killed three people and injured four others, police said.

Two people were killed, five others were injured and one was missing after avalanches struck two Austrian ski resorts, police said.

Siemens, the German industrial and engineering group, appears headed for success in its long campaign to acquire VA Technologie of Austria after sweetening its bid by 18 percent, analysts said.

Photos courtesy of Harold Hoefle On August 18, 1966, my father drove his blue Plymouth to work and never returned.

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell will be the celebrity invitee at Vienna's Opera Ball next month, Austrian property tycoon Richard Lugner announced.

VA Tech. "We will accept Siemens' offer of 55 euros for every VA Tech share," Alfred Heinzel, the president of the OIAG state holding company said in an interview with the Internet edition of Die Presse daily.

Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz started shooting a film about the life of erotic Austrian 19th century artist Gustav Klimt, with American film star John Malkovich in the title role, Austrian film production company Epo-Film told AFP.

Never mind that Austria's lenient new anti-smoking law actually exempts bars and restaurants, the country's smokers and tobacconists have still declared all-out war against the measure, which went into effect on New Year's Day.

Austria's Johann Grugger won the men's World Cup downhill, ahead of countrymen Michael Walchhofer and Fritz Strobl, for the first victory of his career.

Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.

Lack of money appears to hurt a person's chances of surviving a stroke, a new Austrian study suggests.

A storm accompanied by violent gusts of wind, heavy snowfalls and chilling temperatures knifed into the center of Europe after earlier causing major disruption in Scandinavia and Poland.

A newly discovered enzyme that plays a major role in fat metabolism could be a target for a different kind of weight-loss drug, Austrian researchers report.

Austrian Nobel literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek said she longed to have her quiet life back and had recorded a speech to be screened at the award ceremony in Stockholm as her fear of crowds kept her at home.

They don't ski the powder. Of all the cultural peculiarities that North American skiers and snowboarders discover in the Alps, that one leaves them the most dumbfounded.

Iran is behind "terrorism" in the West Bank, visiting Israeli President Moshe Katzav charged.

Israeli President Moshe Katsav spoke of remembrance and learning on the first-ever visit by an Israeli head of state to Austria, and to the former Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen where over 100,000 people perished.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will escalate if the Palestinians continue with "terrorism", Israeli President Moshe Katsav said on the first visit to Austria by an Israeli head of state.

The transaction must still win the backing of Austrian competition authorities, Tele2 said on its Internet site.

Controversial Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize, only the 10th female laureate in its history, but said she could not pick it up due to a "social phobia." She told AFP after the announcement that she had not yet taken in the news.

Acclaimed and controversial Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, whose work often explores the role of women in society, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy announced.

Arte, WDR, with VPRO Amsterdam, SVT Stockholm, YLE2 Helsinki, CBC Toronto.

Austrians have debated the viability of commercial TV for a half-century.

BERLIN Gerhard Zeiler, Mipcom's personality of the year, has proved a safe bet over time.

An Austrian man chased off policemen who had come to arrest him with two cobras, before being bitten himself by one of his venomous snakes, police in the southern city of Leoben said.

A wire transfer from Vienna City Hall via a cable running through the sewer system to a bank a few blocks away has marked the first real-world use of cryptography that takes advantage of the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement.

Iran's Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has issued a call for Islam not be associated with terror acts committed in its name, Austrian news agency APA reported.

The organisers of Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland dropped plans to use a new football stadium in Zurich after a long-running battle with environmentalists in the Swiss city.

Wales keeper Paul Jones, who admitted Azerbaijan's equaliser was his fault, said mistakes happened to all keepers in comments which England's David James would be pleased to hear.

England's World Cup qualifying campaign got off to a disastrous start as Austria fought back from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw courtesy of a horrendous blunder by goalkeeper David James.

German theatre director Juergen Flimm will become the new artistic director of the Salzburg art festival in Austria from 2007, the festival committee said.

Produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Peter Stockhaus.

German manager Jurgen Klinsmann started his managerial career with a 3-1 friendly win over Austria here as he bids to rebuild confidence after the Euro 2004 fiasco.

A mosquito-borne virus from Africa has been decimating Austria's blackbirds for the last three years and is threatening to spread to bird populations in central Europe, Austrian scientists have warned.

The Vatican has closed a Catholic seminary near the Austrian capital Vienna after it was hit by a sex and pornography scandal, special Vatican envoy Klaus Kueng announced.

Five tourists presumed to be British were killed in a coach crash in Austria died after their tour bus was forced off the road by a vehicle overtaking on a sharp bend, the holiday firm running the trip said.

Five people killed in Austria when a tourist bus careered off a road and into a ditch were British, Austrian emergency authorities said.

A Fischerfilm production, with participation of Austrian Film Institute, Vienna Film Fonds WFF, ORF, Arte.

In the first trial of its kind, Austrian researchers have achieved success with an allergy vaccine using genetically engineered pollen.

Alcopops, those trendy drinks targetting teenagers, now find themselves in the firing line as Europe goes to war on alcohol abuse among the young.

Austria's opposition Socialist Party called for the introduction of free contraceptive pills and condoms in order to reduce a growing number of unwanted teenage pregnancies.

Austria has issued a stamp bearing the face of Arnold Schwarzenegger to mark his 57th birthday, the post office said.

An Austrian bishop began investigating a sex scandal at a seminary outside Vienna, saying he was saddened by erotic photographs of Roman Catholic priests that have shocked the country.

Austrian president Thomas Klestil's funeral was held with two dozen heads of state and royals gathering to say farewell to the 71-year-old who died two days before leaving office.

California's Austrian-born governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will represent President George W.

Social Democrat Heinz Fischer, 65, was sworn in as Austria's new president, succeeding Thomas Klestil who died on Tuesday two days before he was due to leave office.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil, 71, who died after suffering a heart attack only two days before he was to leave office, had tried unsuccessfully to boost the presidential powers he held for 12 years.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil, 71, who died after suffering a heart attack only two days before he was to leave office, had been battling his health problems for years.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil, aged 71, died a day after he was hospitalized for a heart attack, his doctors said.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil, in an artificially induced coma after suffering a heart attack early Monday, was in increasingly critical condition as he battled for life.

Doctors feared for the survival of Austrian President Thomas Klestil, who was in an artificially induced coma in an intensive care unit after suffering a heart attack early Monday.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil, who was hospitalized on Monday after a heart attack, has suffered multiple organ failure and is in critical condition, doctors treating the 71-year-old leader warned.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil remained on the critical list more than 24 hours after suffering a heart attack at his home, doctors said.

The life of Austrian President Thomas Klestil was in danger after he suffered a heart attack, three days before he was due to leave office, doctors said in Vienna.

Austrian President Thomas Klestil was hospitalised in a critical condition after suffering a heart attack three days before the end of his term, his office said.

The countries of the Danube celebrated 10 years of environmental work to reclaim Europe's second largest river from devastating pollution amid renewed environmental threat from resurgent industry in the new eastern Europe.

A 27-year-old British soccer fan died after being stabbed by a Croatian supporter in central Lisbon, the Portuguese news agency Lusa quoted police as saying.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. judges may hear claims against foreign countries that are holding art stolen by the Nazis or that are accused of other Holocaust-era abuses, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The US Supreme Court decided that American courts have jurisdiction in the case of a Californian who sued for reinstatement of six Gustav Klimt paintings stolen from her Jewish family by Nazis.

A collective yawn was stifled across most of Western Europe last month when the 15-member European Union added 10 states and 75 million consumers, mostly from the former Eastern Bloc.

Austria's new animal protection law puts the country high on the list of European nations regulating the fate of their animals, after a compromise was struck with Jewish and Muslim groups and small-scale breeders.

Five tourists from Belgium and Germany drowned and several others were injured when their boat capsized in the chilly waters of Europe's largest underground lake in Austria, police said.

Five German tourists drowned and several others were injured when their boat capsized in the chilly waters of Europe's largest underground lake in southern Austria, fire officials said.

Marika Roekk, who sang and danced her way through many musical comedies in the German-speaking movie and theatre world in the middle of the last century, died in Austria at the age of 91.

Socialist Heinz Fischer won Austria's presidential election, defeating the country's foreign minister in a blow to the conservative government of Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel.

Socialist Heinz Fischer narrowly won the Austrian presidential vote, according to first official projections, defeating his conservative challenger Foreign Minister Benita Ferrero-Waldner.

Austrians were voting to choose a new president who will either be the central European country's first female head of state or its first socialist president in 18 years.

A new museum dedicated to the legendary empress Elizabeth of Austria, opened its doors in Vienna's Imperial Palace.

Friends of the Earth Europe says initiatives to ban GM crops are now underway in at least 22 European countries inhabited by tens of millions of people.

Five European Union heavyweights and several future members of the EU ruled out any compromise with Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, rejecting his truce offer as ploy.

Demonstrators blocked key motorway links between Germany and Italy through the Austrian Alps for a third day in protest against the threat of pollution caused by new EU relaxations on truck traffic.

Terrorism and the Middle East peace process topped the agenda at talks between Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the Gulf kingdom's de facto ruler, and Austrian leaders, the Austrian presidency said.

Austrian converter flexo-prints pharmaceutical folding cartons Eberle Druck GmbH, Vienna, Austria, is increasingly using flexography to produce folding cartons for the pharmaceutical industry.

The substation will be designed and erected on the site of the previous facility built by former ELIN UNION AG in 1972.

Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the Gulf kingdom's de facto ruler, arrived in Vienna for a three-day state visit to Austria.

It's been less than a year since Austria welcomed its first private station, ATV.

Thousands of Austrians including political and public figures gathered to mourn the death of Cardinal Franz Koenig, the longtime Roman Catholic archbishop of Vienna noted for shaping Vatican policy and helping expand the church into the former Soviet bloc.

Vienna, a city already rich with some 160 museums, gets a new one dedicated to masterpieces of European art that were rescued from the Nazis and kept in warehouses in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein until now.

Crowds in the great hall were there to fete the March 11 opening of the newest musical production from United Stages of Vienna, aka VBW, in Austrian shorthand.

HOLLYWOOD With money from the Austrian government, a theatrical production about Alma Mahler's colorful life is headed for Broadway.

Austria's Cardinal Franz Koenig, longtime Roman Catholic archibishop of Vienna who played a key role at Vatican II and was an architect of the church's Cold War opening to the Eastern bloc, has died here at the age of 99.

The United States said that it would not be having any contact with Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, who a day earlier triumphed in elections in his home province Carinthia.

Austria's fiery far-right nationalist Joerg Haider ensured his political survival when his party won a crucial regional election in his home state of Carinthia.

Austria's fiery far-right nationalist Joerg Haider ensured his political survival Sunday when television estimates indicated he had won a regional election in his home state of Carinthia.

The Freedom Party led by the far-right nationalist Joerg Haider was likely to win the most votes in a regional election for a parliament in his home region, the southern state of Carinthia, according to first television estimates.

Austria's controversial far-right nationalist Joerg Haider was fighting for his political future in a crucial vote to elect a new parliament in his home state of Carinthia.

Habsburg Empire peoples are complications in the history of the dynasty", epigrammatically wrote A.J.P.

Sometimes only in front of a mirror are we capable of seeing something deep within our souls, often things we don't quite want to face.

WASHINGTON --- The Austrian situation is a bit more complicated than it may at first seem.

Paul Lendvai is one of the Grand Old Men of European journalism.

U.S. policy toward Europe under the current administration has suffered from really only one flaw--but it's a doozy.