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Europe edged closer to lifting banking secrecy on Wednesday after Austria said it was ready to share data on foreign depositors but Vienna's support could fade should efforts to strike a similar deal with Switzerland fail.

An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ago.

Herman Nackaerts, left, Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, shakes hands with Iran's Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, after their talks at the permanent mission of Iran in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

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

Film being a time-based medium and therefore inextricably bound up with issues of memory - not to mention the universal and inevitable prospect of death - it was not so very surprising that three documentaries screened during the first Sunday of this year's Cannes were concerned with the importance both of time's passing and of remembrance.

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

Gisela Cheffer was born Gisela DuschinskA1 2 in Brno in 1932. Her Viennese father was Jewish, which made her a target for the Nazis, and her baptism as a Roman Catholic very likely saved her life.

The Nurburgring 24 Hours Race on 19 and 20 May 2013 will see the world premiere of a very special Aston Martin race car - the first hybrid hydrogen-powered race car to compete in an international motorsport event.

Patient and physician related factors of adherence to evidence based guidelines in diabetes mellitus type 2, cardiovascular disease and prevention: a cross sectional study BACKGROUND:Patients do not always receive guideline-adherent therapy, yet little is known about the underlying causes on the patients' side.

Big Time Rush singer Kendall Schmidt has filed a complaint with airline bosses after $7,000 -worth of jewellery went missing from his luggage during a recent flight to Austria.

The XVI Torneo de Madrid wrapped up on May 5 with Seok-Bin Cho 8d in first, followed by Lluis Oh 6d and Pau Carles 3d.

Manfred Honeck, music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, is set to make his Cleveland Orchestra debut this week with four concerts at Severance Hall.

A lot has happened in the past five years. That includes enough good things to prompt Austrian Airlines to resume nonstop service five days a week between Chicago's O'Hare Airport and Vienna, Austria, where the carrier's main hub and its headquarters are located.

ISLAMABAD: Doctors may soon be able to save lives by checking stool samples for DNA evidence of cancer, researchers said .

Mary Sullivan Esseff Announces Release of - The Butterfly & The Snail' In "The Butterfly & The Snail" , author Mary Sullivan Esseff's new novel, readers join Rebecca Butler and Khalil Khoury as they struggle to resolve the dilemma their chance meeting in the summer of 1964 in Salzburg, Austria, causes in their lives.The tale begins on the ... (more)

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

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra has released a new recording , nicely timed to coincide with the closing concert of its current season on Sunday, May 19, at Davies Symphony Hall.

KTM will merge Husqvarna and Husaberg into one brand...and Husaberg will go away as a marque.

Maestro Hans Graf will conduct the Houston Symphony in his final concerts as Music Director tonight, May 17 and the 18th.

Prime Minister Justice Mir Hazar Khan Khoso on Thursday said that transfer of power to the newly elected government would be completed in accordance with the constitution and the will of the people of Pakistan within the stipulated time.