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Osaka is the third most liveable city in the world after Vienna and Melbourne, according to a recent global survey by the research unit of British magazine The Economist. The Kansai metropolis boosted its ranking from last year, when it didn't make the top 10. ...
EU lawmakers back plan for European Investment Bank to do business in Iran
EU lawmakers gave approval Wednesday for the European Investment Bank (EIB) to do business in Iran, overcoming an attempt to block the move and keeping alive plans to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran that Washington has abandoned. The EIB, the European Union's not-for-profit ...
Quartet performs in Vienna with violins crafted from 3/11 tsunami debris
A string quartet performed at Minoriten Church in Vienna on Saturday with instruments made from debris from the March 2011 quake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Tohoku region. The ensemble of musicians, from Japan and Austria, played works by Mozart and other composers ...
Four people seriously hurt in two knife attacks in Vienna but no link established
Four people were seriously wounded in two knife attacks in one district of Vienna on Wednesday evening but any motive or connection between the assaults was unclear, a police spokesman said. The stabbings — the first of which took place at 7:45 p.m. (1845 GMT), ...
Melbourne named world's most livable city for the seventh year in a row
The Australian city of Melbourne was named the world's most livable city for a record seventh year in a row in a global survey that was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) on Wednesday. Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, received perfect scores for ...
Soprano Misaki Morino follows the music to Vienna
For Misaki Morino, Vienna lives up to both its names: The City of Music and The City of Dreams.
Vienna again tops list of nicest cities as Baghdad comes in last
Vienna, Austria's grand capital on the Danube river, has topped consulting firm Mercer's list of cities offering the highest quality of life for the eighth year in a row, while Baghdad is again considered the worst place to live. The survey of 231 cities helps ...
Russians accused of obstructing WADA's investigation of doping
The World Anti-Doping Agency alleged Wednesday that Russian athletes and government agencies continued to obstruct and deceive drug testers, even as Russia tries to regain its place in Olympic track and field. In a report published two days before a key vote on whether to ...
Austria police nab Swedish girl, 17, who said she was Syria-bound to join Islamist militants
Austrian police have detained a 17-year-old Swedish girl who said she was on her way to Syria and is suspected of planning to join Islamist militants there, a Vienna police spokesman said on Sunday. The parents of the girl, who has no previous link with ...
U.S., EU deny Russian accusation of hijacking preparations for Syria talks
Russia accused the United States on Thursday of hijacking preparatory talks for a weekend meeting of nearly 20 nations focused on ending the Syrian war. The charge was denied by U.S. officials, who expressed surprise that Moscow did not show up. The dispute appeared to ...
Assad the key no-show at Vienna talks to seal his fate, strike Syria peace deal
The success or failure of the Syrian peace talks this week is tied to the fate of one man who's not even at the table: President Bashar Assad. Neither Assad nor any of his representatives are in Vienna, where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ...
EU asylum rules strained as refugee throngs ride the rails to Vienna, points west
Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary. In the latest twist in a humanitarian and political crisis ...
