Lufthansa to acquire Austrian Airlines

Lufthansa said Wednesday its supervisory board had approved a deal to acquire Austrian Airlines AG, giving one of Europe's biggest airlines more routes across the continent and beyond.

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This selection of photographs shows the radical transformation of the Austrian Tyrol after the arrival of skiing tourism.

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A Vienna girl who called her parents eighteen months ago to tell them she was not coming home from school has been found living as her uncle's lover.

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Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countr …

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Two Austrian tourists visiting London were forced to erase large portions of their holiday photographs by police officers who told the pair that they were duty bound to "prevent terrorism".

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Politicians are calling for a ban on hunting traps after a teenage girl was left in hospital when she accidentally set one off in a forest.

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A-Level project by three students from Austria. By using HTML, CSS and ASP they created a website where it is possible to easily create an online-questionnaire for FREE.

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Excerpt: Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician who raped and incarcerated his daughter in his cellar and fathered seven children by her, will plead not guilty to charges of murder and slavery.

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We've got some rather shocking news this afternoon for those of you who've spent years believing you're Austrian, Belgian, Danish or Dutch - you're not. In fact, you're German, as this map from Google's comic book guide to Chrome proves:

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Austrian utility Verbund (VERB.VI: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) won a concession to build a 166 million euro ($259 million) hydropower plant in northern Albania, the Albanian government said on Thursday.

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About 1,800 people stripped bare on Sunday at a stadium in Austria set to host the Euro 2008 soccer final for American photographer Spencer Tunick.

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Probably NSFW... Humiliated at their defeat to Lithuania, the Austrian rugby team apparently decided to humiliate themselves further. The group of twenty players staged a striptease on a street in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius as onlookers clapped and cheered them on.

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One of the children held captive by Josef Fritzl in Austria's "house of horror" is likely to die, doctors revealed today.

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The victims of Austria's "house of horrors" have been emotionally reunited with the rest of their family.

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An Austrian man allegedly held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered four children with her, reports say. The existence of the woman, believed missing since 1984 and now 42, emerged after one of the children was found in the house in a "serious condition".

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According to the Austrian newspaper "Wirtschaftsblatt", Raiffeisen Bank will support with loans a 250 Million EUR construction mega project in Prishtina, the capital city of Kosovo.

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Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger was in a stable condition on Tuesday after undergoing an emergency amputation of his lower left leg. Watch video attached, Warning it is a little graphic.

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It was one of the most audacious jewel thefts in history. In the middle of a crowded room, the famed Star of the Empress Sisi was stolen from its high-security case and replaced with a replica.

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Thirteen Austrian bishops were barred from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall last week by Jewish religious authorities when they refused to take off their crosses, according to Austrian officials.

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It would seem that those Muslim clerics who were speaking so vociferously about the limitations on freedom of speech in the west being only freedom for those who publish Mohammed cartoons, but not for those who argue against the Holocaust have been given credibility by the Austri

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Worst news in 2006,- so far.

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