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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.

Milos Zeman has made fewer domestic and foreign trips than his predecessors in the first four months following his election, and, compared with them, he tended to provoke and dispute for powers on the Czech scene, daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes today.

How did Renaissance masterpieces survive the carnage of World War II? Noah Charney on a team of U.S. soldiers who rescued the world's greatest objects from being stolen or destroyed by the Nazis.

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.

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A systematic error has been eliminated from a measurement technique for analysing the physical properties of the Earth's atmosphere using signals from GPS satellites - thanks to an Austrian Science Fund FWF project.

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.

Koloman Moser was an Austrian artist and designer - of everything from interiors and exhibitions to textiles and glass - and a co-founder of the influential, secessionist production cooperative Wiener WerkstA tte.

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

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

Dense, dark, packed, young and fresh. No, not the club - this mix. We invite Electric Indigo to tell us about her new, freely-downloadable podcast with Linz, Austria's Houztekk Records.

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Europe edged closer to lifting banking secrecy on Wednesday after Austria said it was ready to share data on foreign depositors but Vienna's support could fade should efforts to strike a similar deal with Switzerland fail.

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.

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.