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  1. A president of Europe? Continent's unity is testedRead the original story

    14 min ago | KJCT

    The European Union has battled long and hard for this moment: the imminent choice of its first president.

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    Related Topix: Nicolas Sarkozy

  2. The White Ribbon | Film reviewRead the original story w/Photo

    6 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

    Michael Haneke's Palme D'or winner offers a spellbinding tale of bigotry and brutality in a pre-Great War rural German community, says Philip French Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the First World War to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical ...

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    Related Topix: The White Ribbon, Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  3. SFU loses 'a special young...Read the original story

    16 hrs ago | Burnaby Now

    ... of the Burnaby RCMP told The Vancouver Sun on Wednesday. "It's just a very tragic accident." Originally from Vienna, Austria, Dittrich fell in love with the sport of American football, and he played for the Vienna Vikings club team, where he was ...

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    Related Topix: Sports, Swimming

  4. Speeding pensioner's trail of deceitRead the original story w/Photo

    20 hrs ago | Plymouth Evening Herald

    ... The son was oblivious to his father's actions throughout. A police investigation found the son's address in Vienna, Austria, given to officers was false as he had not lived in the country for around 10 years. He also used his son's middle name when ...

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    Related Topix: Devon County, England, World News, England, United Kingdom, Budleigh Salterton, England, United Kingdom, East Devon, England, United Kingdom, Vienna, Austria, Niederosterreich, Austria

  5. Dittrich's death shocks SFURead the original story

    Thursday Nov 12 | North Shore Outlook

    ... an injured shoulder that caused him to miss the team's last two games of the season. Originally from Vienna, Austria, Dittrich fell in love with American football and started playing for the Vienna Vikings club team, where he was coached for five ...

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    Related Topix: Sports, Swimming

  6. Gruner Veltliner an Austrian specialtyRead the original story

    18 hrs ago | The Victoria Star

    ... were offered. For the first time in a few years, one of my favourite grapes was available, a white grape unique to Austria: Gruner Veltliner. Gruner Veltliner is grown in the north-eastern part of Austria, just to the west of Vienna and close to the ...

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    Related Topix: Wine, Drink, Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  7. Schwarzenegger to address policy forum in JerusalemRead the original story

    22 hrs ago | Los Angeles Times

    ... political causes. The governor will then travel to Iraq to meet U.S. troops and may stop in his birth city of Graz, Austria, on the way back to the United States. The trip is to be paid for by the California Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit group ...

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    Related Topix: California Government, US Governors, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Middle East, Israel Travel, Israel Travel, Travel, Israel, Middle East

  8. Pinoys kick off election awareness campaign in ViennaRead the original story

    23 hrs ago | ABS-CBN News

    VIENNA, Austria An initiative that would make Filipino migrant voters more aware of the Philippine electoral process and encourage them to go out and vote in the May 2010 polls will be launched by the end of November.

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    Related Topix: Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  9. Austrian president satisfied with Austria-China relationsRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday | People's Daily Online

    President of Austria Heinz Fischer receives a present from Zhan Weiping, president of the Overseas Chinese Committee of the Austria-China Friendly Association in Vienna Nov.

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    Related Topix: China, Asia, World News, Europe, Heinz Fischer

  10. German 'vaccine tourists' head for Austria amid swine flu fearsRead the original story

    Yesterday | Deutsche Welle

    Many Germans are making a beeline for Austria in the hope of getting vaccinated amid the seemingly unbridled spread of swine flu.

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    Related Topix: Europe, World News, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Heinz Fischer, Salzburg, Germany, Bayern, Germany, Germany

  11. Three days in Vienna. Day 1Read the original story w/Photo

    Monday Nov 9 | Examiner.com

    Vienna is one of the most interesting cities in the world to visit. It was built to rule an empire which stretched from the borders of Switzerland to today's Ukraine.

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    Related Topix: Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  12. Comedian may head Greens' list in StyriaRead the original story

    Friday | Austrian Times

    By William Green German-born comedian Jorg-Martin Willnauer, 52, was today unveiled by the Styrian Greens as a candidate to head the party's list in the autumn 2010 provincial election.

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    Related Topix: Steiermark, Austria, Graz, Austria, World News

  13. Police dog trainer's daughter mauled to death by family dog

    Friday | Austrian Times

    By David Rogers The one-year-old daughter of a police dog trainer was mauled to death by her family's dog in Lower Austria this morning .

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    Related Topix: Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  14. Austrian complains of 'intolerant' London Congestion ChargeRead the original story

    Friday | Austrian Times

    By Thomas Hochwarter An Austrian holidaymaker fined for driving in London's city centre without paying the city's Congestion Charge has called for officials in the British capital to be "more tolerant". The Viennese man complained in today's Kronen Zeitung newspaper about the charge after he was slapped with a 137-Euro bill for illegally entering ...

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    Related Topix: Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  15. With 2 tours and museum, 'The Third Man' film still going strong in Vienna 60 years laterRead the original story

    Friday | SuperstationWGN.com TV

    ... to tape studio scenes sparked his lifelong love for orange marmalade. "It was so unusual, you couldn't get it in Austria for years," he said with a chuckle during a recent interview, evoking postwar shortages that led to the kind of smuggling the ...

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    Related Topix: Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria, Movies, Entertainment

  16. Vienna Boys Choir boss on PSP-mad boys and the boarding school 'problem'Read the original story

    Friday | Austrian Times

    By Thomas Hochwarter Wiener Schnitzel, skiing in the Alps, Mozart - and the Vienna Boys Choir.

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    Related Topix: Marketing, Family, Teenagers, Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria

  17. Dad jailed for raping daughterRead the original story

    Friday | Austrian Times

    ... by family dog The one-year-old daughter of a police dog trainer was mauled to death by her family's dog in Lower Austria this morning (Fri). Police end pensioner's church stay A 65-year-old who walked into a church last week and refused to leave ...

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    Related Topix: World News, Feldkirch, Austria, Vorarlberg, Austria

  18. 13 November 2009Inspecting the HP2 MegamotoThe HP2 Megamoto has...Read the original story w/Photo

    Friday | World of BMW

    One of Austria's highest profile actors, Tobias Moretti, recently took delivery of the 110 bhp flat-twin high-performance motorcycle and was impressed with what he discovered.

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    Related Topix: Tobias Moretti, Niederosterreich, Austria, World News, Vienna, Austria, Motorcycles, BMW Motorcycles, BMW

  19. Region grapples with swine fluRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday | SETimes news

    ... vaccines, to double the number of available doses from 5 million to 10 million. A Romanian man living near Salzburg, Austria, succumbed to a heart attack Tuesday after contracting H1N1, in what is being described as the first Romanian fatality ...

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    Related Topix: Europe, Croatia, Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia, World News, Croatia, Albania

  20. Sfu QB dies in pool accidentRead the original story

    Friday | Coquitlam Now

    ... as a means of rehabilitating an injured shoulder that had kept him out of the last two games. A native of Vienna, Austria, Dittrich fell in love with American football and played for the Vienna Vikings club team, where he was coached by current SFU ...

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    Related Topix: Sports, Swimming