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 ...
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 ...
With this year marking the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.N. Office in Vienna has put on permanent display objects and photos related to the horror of nuclear weapons to push for their elimination. Similar permanent exhibits have ...
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 ...
As Vienna talks hit snag on Iran nuke monitoring, Zarif looks to shuttle to Tehran
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will fly back to Tehran and is expected to return by Tuesday to Vienna where negotiators are still at odds on some elements of a final nuclear deal, including the scope of monitoring. Zarif's shuttle diplomacy isn't unexpected and ...
U.S. derails amendment to toughen nuclear safety pact: diplomats
The United States has derailed a proposal to toughen nuclear safety standards by amending a global atomic treaty, diplomats said, with opponents of the move arguing it would get mired in lengthy parliamentary ratification. Months of wrangling about the future of the 77-nation Convention on ...
Nagoya: What was your best holiday ever, and why?
South Korea. I have many Korean friends and I love going to Seoul. It is a wonderful city for shopping, eating and pampering yourself. Some of the food is rather like delicacies you can find in Japan, yet subtly different, such as tok, their ...
Vienna embraces the culture of the bicycle
On the Praterstern, where cars, buses and trams converge from several busy streets on a road that loops around Vienna's central train station, a new digital counter stands under the eye of the Riesenrad Ferris wheel. It's about the size of a bus stop advertising ...
Vienna museum to restore daimyo mansion model from 19th century
A 19th-century scale model of a daimyo lord's feudal mansion will be restored and turned into a major exhibit at Vienna's Museum of Ethnology from around 2016. The 1:18 scale wooden model will be the central display in a wing of the Hofburg Imperial Palace ...
The first official Hello Kitty shop in Austria opened Thursday in a shopping mall in Vienna. Sanrio Co.'s Hello Kitty brand is popular in Europe, and shop manager Thomas Gottsbacher said "there are even people from Germany coming all the way here" to buy special ...
