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GLORIOUS: A panoramic view of Budapest, the starting point for the luxurious cruise along the River Danube.

Some say curiosity killed the cat, but in the case of a 59-year-old man in Austria, curiosity got him pinched Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

Tyres "burn" in a corner, gas masks and truncheons hang from the ceiling: as unrest rocks Ukraine, art from Kiev's Maidan is already making its debut in a Vienna museum.

A tour inside Fruhauf Uniforms. The company started in Wichita in 1910 and makes 60,000 band uniforms per year.

At the sites where people were deprived of their rights, dispossessed, deported, and murdered, German and Hungarian descendants of the perpetrators will walk together with the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

A sudden lurch in a creeping landslide in the northwest Wyoming resort town of Jackson split a house in two and forced workers to abandon efforts to stabilize the hillside.

All Massachusetts authorities could say for sure is that they found the lifeless body of a small boy, apparently cast off the side of a highway.

In October 1916, as the war in Europe was entering its third terrible year, President Woodrow Wilson remarked that "a hundred years from now, it will not be the bloody details that the world will think of in this war: it will be the causes behind it, the adjustments which it will force."

The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Franz Welser-Most, performs Anton Bruckner's Fourth "Romantic" Symphony, one of Bruckner's most popular works.

Europe should consider allowing fracking for shale gas in sparsely populated areas, the chief executive of Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine told a German newspaper.

MONACO Rafael Nadal loses to Spanish compatriot David Ferrer in the quarterfinals, his earliest exit at the Monte Carlo Masters in 11 years.

Sanel Kuljic, Dominique Taboga and Johannes Lamprecht have allegedly been fixing matches in the country's first and second divisions, offering other players 7,000 to 40,000 euros to help manipulate games, prosecutors said.

Sanel Kuljic, Dominique Taboga and Johannes Lamprecht have allegedly been fixing matches in the country's first and second divisions, offering other players 7,000 to 40,000 euros to help manipulate games, prosecutors said.

Three ex-players in Austria formed a criminal organization during their careers and attempted to manipulate 18 national league games from 2004 to 2013 with bets of up to 300,000 euros per match, state prosecutors said on Friday.

Plus, the Russian co-owner of Montenegro's huge aluminum plant sues the government and Brussels shifts gears on Bosnia.

Jousting knights on horseback. Gleaming armor. A gilded carriage. Royal regalia.

The innovative Austrian-designed Johammer J1 Electric Motorcycle doesn't look like any other electrobike while performing better than most of its competitors.

Ayelet Waldman accomplishes a deft feat in her new book, "Love and Treasure." The Berkeley writer's elegant, sweeping Holocaust novel does not once visit the concentration camps, but still conveys the scope of the tragedy as well as the richness of Hungarian Jewish history.

Brussels - The head of NATO pledged on Wednesday to immediately step up military patrols along the alliance's vast eastern border in response to mounting evidence of Russian interference in Ukraine.The announcement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, appeared to be another sign that the ... (more)

CHAMBERSBURG >> Holocaust survivor Trudy Klein Gompers will be the guest speaker as Letterkenny Army Depot's Special Emphasis Program honors the Observance of the Holocaust Days of Remembrance on April 23 at 12:00 p.m. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1937, Gompers' family moved to England in early 1939 after the Nazi's annexed Austria.