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Drunk guide bails on 60 hikers on Austrian mountain
A group of 60 tourists were forced to call emergency services after they were abandoned on the side of an Austrian mountain by their drunken guide.
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Austria far-right narrowly loses poll, Van der Bellen elected president
Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria's presidential election, preventing Norbert Hofer from becoming the EU's first far-right head of state. Mr Hofer led narrowly after Sunday's election but postal votes gave Mr Van der Bellen victory by 50.3% to 49.7%. Mr Van der Bellen campaigned on a pro-EU platform backed by the Greens Party. Mr Hofer, of the Freedom Party, tapped into anti-EU sentiment and fears about rising numbers of asylum seekers. He conceded victory on his Facebook page. Mr Hofer, 45, said it was a sad day and that he would have gladly served as president.
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Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll
Austria’s political future is on a knife-edge, with the candidate bidding to be the European Union’s first far-right president holding a wafer-thin lead over his rival. According to the public broadcaster ORF, Norbert Hofer of the rightwing populist Freedom party (FPÖ) was neck and neck on 50% with his rival Alexander Van der Bellen, a former Green party leader who is running as an independent.
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Bank bail-ins are back, and they begin in Austria
Entering into 2016, all members of the European Union (EU) were required by law to have bail-in legislation on their books in preparation for the next potential crisis.
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"800-Year-Old Mobile Phone" Found In Austria, According To Alien Theorists
While it’s well-established a Nokia 3310 could hold out for years of mistreatment, there are bizarre claims that archaeologists have found an 800-year-old object left by deity-like alien figures. Conspiracy theorists have been going nuts over images that appear to show an artifact with a great amount of similarity to a mobile phone. Although the theorists do not claim it was ever a working phone, they appear to believe the object is an attempt to imitate ancient alien technology, as explained...
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Man drowns himself in Austrian lake using concrete block with wife's head inside
A man strangled and dismembered his wife, encased her head in concrete and then used the concrete block as a weight to drown himself in an Austrian lake, police have said. Officials said the couple were a 72-year-old man and his 71-year-old wife from near Frankfurt in Germany, but did not identify them further. The woman’s head was found in a block of concrete in a bag attached to one of the man’s hands, and his other hand was also weighed down.
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The lake at the end of the world
Barely three hours from Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana, Lake Bohinj is in the middle of nowhere – out of season and time – and it’s wonderful.
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Remote Mountain View House Overlooking the Austrian Alps
Designed and implemented by Slovenian firm SoNo arhitekti, the Mountain View House is a private residence overlooking the Austrian Alps. Located close to the famous skiing region of Kitzbuehel, the hillside retreat was meant to follow the lines of the surrounding landscape: “The residence takes different shapes depending of the viewer’s standpoint due to it’s playful design of the gable roofs that echoes the shape of nearby mountain peaks.
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Renault to stop supplying engines
Renault will stop supplying engines to other Formula 1 teams, with its relationship with Red Bull likely to end this year.
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Austrians stunned as migrants arrive: ‘Small children with barely any food. It’s crazy.’
They left their homes in war-torn Syria; were "stuck in squalid conditions" in Hungary for days; and then were forced to make a 100-mile journey, in part by foot and later by bus. The asylum-seekers were met with blankets and tea handed out by Red Cross workers as they crossed into Austria on Saturday, but it only was a respite as they continued their journeys beyond the border.
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Austria-Hungary, early 1900s
While the artist usually does alternate history maps, this is a map done by him that shows our own world's Austria-Hungary and surrounding countries in the early 1900s, before the Balkan Wars.
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Petition for EU exit beats 100,000 mark - The Local
261,159 Austrians have signed a petition demanding a referendum on whether Austria should leave the EU.
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Vienna is replacing the little figures in traffic lights with same-sex couples
Dozens of Vienna's traffic lights have been given a gay-friendly makeover ahead of this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
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Early Bird Scenery
This is the scenery you get if you do a photoshooting early in the morning. This took place in Seekirchen/Wallersee. Next to Salzburg/Austria.
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Flying car approaches liftoff as most advanced prototype yet is unveiled
With its sportscar cockpit and dragonfly wings that fold in neatly behind the cabin, it looks like something straight out of the Batcave or Q’s secret laboratory. But the creators of AeroMobil’s Flying Roadster insist their innovation is more than just a boy’s toy dreamt up by science fiction fans. The time of the flying car, they announced at Wednesday’s unveiling of their most advanced prototype, has come.
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Austria's Conchita Wurst wins Eurovision amid Russia, Ukraine tensions
Russia and Ukraine faced off again Saturday, far from their volatile border region, on the glitzy stage of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Austria's Conchita Wurst wins Eurovision Song Contest
Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday with a grandiose James Bond-theme-like ballad Rise Like a Phoenix, before an international TV audience
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Paragliding in Austria's white mountains
This experience must have been breathtaking. By David Bengtsson, see source for more.
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