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ZUG, Switzerland & LINZ, Austria -- -- The sixth annual EuroMedtech partnering conference will be held May 7-8, 2014 in Linz, Austria.

The General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union , a meeting with over 11,000 scientists that covers all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences, is taking place next week in Vienna, Austria.

Toronto, Canada, April 22, 2014 - Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, is pleased to announce that it will be at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014 from April 27 to May 2 in Vienna, Austria.

Apparent electrical conductivity as a surrogate for neutron probe counts to measure soil moisture content in heavy clay soils John N. Stanley A B D , David W. Lamb A B , Gregory Falzon A B C and Derek A. Schneider A B A Precision Agriculture Research Group, School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

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

As the Austrian Times reported on Friday, a group of businessmen fed up at the way companies are being squeezed not only by red tape but also by ever newer taxes have taken to the internet to try and build up pressure for change.

The Architecture centre in Vienna is opening the third stage of it's long term exhibition looking at Austrian 20th and 21st Century architecture.

A criminal who thought he had got away with four counts of embezzlement and fraud managed to alert police to his crimes after he walked into a police station to ask if there was an arrest warrant out on him.

Salzburg police arrested the 59-year-old German man after his request revealed an arrest warrant for four counts of fraud and embezzlement had been issued for him.

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.