Vienna, Austria News

Guests in fancy costumes arrive for the opening ceremony of the 21st Life Ball in front of city hall in Vienna, Austria, May 25, 2013.

Guests in fancy costumes arrive for the opening ceremony of the 21st Life Ball in front of city hall in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday, May 25, 2013.

The Gold Coast International Film Festival is presenting a special screening of "Portrait of Wally: The Face that Launched A Thousand Lawsuits," about the 1939 theft of Egon Schiele's celebrated painting by the Nazis from Lea Bondi, a Viennese gallery owner, and the legal struggle, decades later, to recover the painting for Bondi's family.

Have I stepped into a fairy tale? A mountaintop castle towers above winding cobblestone streets graced with splashing fountains, onion-domed churches and a tavern with a massive door flanked by flaming torches.

Purse bids for Kubrat Pulev s defense of the EBU heavyweight title against mandatory challenger Tyson Fury has been postponed from May 28 to June 1 and will go ahead at the Savoyen Hotel in Vienna, Austria on the EBU s General Assembly.

In this May 7, 2013 file photo Austrian Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger from the Austrian People's Party speaks during a press conference after the weekly cabinet meeting at the federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria.

Austria said Friday that it may rethink its U.N. peacekeeping role in the Golan Heights, if the European Union doesn't extend its arms embargo to Syria.

Another major milestone of Proxmox VE 3.0 is the new event driven API server replacing Apache2.

Azerbaijan, Baku, May.24/ Trend F.Karimov/ Iran has been appointed as the head of the Program and Budget Committee the United Nations Industrial Development Organization , IRNA reported.

The company develops and constructs renewable energy power plants. It generates power from renewable energy such as biomass, wind, landfill gas, small hydro and other plants.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

May month marks the end of Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf's 12-year tenure with the orchestra.

From May 23 to September 2, 2013, the Neue Galerie New York will present a monographic exhibition devoted to the Austrian artist, designer, and Wiener Werkstatte co-founder Koloman Moser .

An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ago.

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

Councilman Eric Garcetti, who jammed with pop star Moby and fashioned himself as a voice for a new generation of city leaders, has opened a growing lead in the race for Los Angeles mayor with the pool of uncounted... City Councilman Eric Garcetti defeated Controller Wendy Greuel to become next mayor of Los Angeles after a caustic campaign in which ... (more)

Herman Nackaerts, left, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, shakes hands with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

Film being a time-based medium and therefore inextricably bound up with issues of memory - not to mention the universal and inevitable prospect of death - it was not so very surprising that three documentaries screened during the first Sunday of this year's Cannes were concerned with the importance both of time's passing and of remembrance.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.