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SALZBURG CHRISTMAS: St. Martin's Chamber Choir performs "A Salzburg Christmas" Friday at the Broomfield Auditorium.

The facade of the Ars Electronica center in Linz, Austria, a hub for the electronic arts, is covered by 1,085 glass panes that can be lit by 95,000 color-changing LEDs.

Katie Dubbs '14 and Anastasya Lloyd-Damnjanovic '14 were awarded Sachs Scholarships.

France's Bouygues Telecom has expanded its 4G services to all existing tariffs at no extra cost to the consumer.

International technology Group ANDRITZ successfully started up Europe's largest new paper machine for specialty papers, supplied to Zellstoff Pols, Austria.

Medtronic on Monday announced the first-in-human implant of the world's smallest pacemaker: the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System .

A Berkeley woman whose legs were crushed by a train in Austria six years ago won the right from a U.S. appeals court to go ahead with a lawsuit against the Austrian railroad in federal court in San Francisco.

The German expression "Es weihnachtet sehr" fits the mood in Vienna as Austria's capital decks itself out in style for the holiday season.

Recognition came the way of Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani-Alison-Madueke as she was appointed late last week at the 164th meeting of the Conference of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries as alternate president of the group.

Husqvarna Motorcycles GmbH - the start of Husqvarna's exciting, new future Husqvarna Motorcycles GmbH, the newly formed company of KTM AG, is fully operational and ready to begin worldwide delivery of the new model range of Husqvarna motorcycles.

He'd listened to a crude recording of a music school's rather uninspired performance of my Symphony For String Orchestra.

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

Herbert Muenster was born in Vienna, Austria, but moved to the United States in 1962.

Polls across Europe have predicted the rise of the extreme right in next year's EU elections, but plans for a second Eurosceptic group in Parliament could signal a demise of the current EFD faction.

Talks between the P5+1 to work out "technical details" left undetermined by last month's interim deal to slow down Iran's nuclear progress will resume Monday, changing venue from Geneva to Vienna, Austria, the US State Department revealed Friday.

Two Berkshire women active in the world of art were born the same year: Ala Story and Yvonne Twining Humber .

Last night's live production of The Sound of Music on NBC got more flak than Maria did for being an unsolvable problem nun.

Austria's national railroad must face a lawsuit in the United States from a California woman who lost both of her legs in a train mishap, the full 9th Circuit ruled Friday.

Von Trapp family members, including real-life Maria von Trapp's stepchildren and own children, are still in contact with the actors of the 1965 Hollywood version of "The Sound of Music."

What could you do with a 3-D printer, a Bluetooth connection, and a handful of tools? To a Spanish artist and designer, the answer was obvious: Build a giant, interactive Rubik's Cube on the facade of a building.