News & Views Directory 3
This is a full directory of all 121 articles about Vienna, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Dec.13.2006 | |
When travellers recall that their waiters were like robots, it's not usually a compliment. But Vienna's Roboexotica exhibition is turning the old cliche on its ... | |
Nov.27.2006 | |
A statue was unveiled in Vienna on Saturday of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, the legendary Hungarian bishop who escaped to Austria in 1971. The statue has been... | |
Nov.21.2006 | |
On this day ninety years ago, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria passed away. He had reigned for 68 years. As Miklos Banffy recalled: 'Everyone knew that it ... | |
Nov.13.2006 | |
Word has emerged that blockbuster director Mel Gibson has been approached to direct a film about the 1683 Siege of Vienna. The project, under the working title ... | |
Nov.13.2006 | |
A celebrated painting by Edward Munch is to be presented to the granddaughter of composer Gustav Mahler following far-reaching changes in restitution laws. '... | |
Nov.13.2006 | |
The controversial 'opera urinals' have been sold on eBay by their owner, Herr Gerhard Neuhold. The lots fetched 5, 343 euros. The graphic conveniences caused... | |
Nov.9.2006 | |
Last night's sale at Christie's, New York, proved to be the most lucrative art auction of all time. As it was, an embattled Austrian emigre reaped the greatest ... | |
Nov.7.2006 | |
A Bosnian burglar was on the run last night after an audacious escape from a prison near Graz. Muradif Hasanbegovic, 36, had himself wrapped in a parcel in orde... | |
Oct.31.2006 | |
Word has got out that Universal pictures is about to catapult an unlikely Austrian to fame. That Austrian is Bruno, the outspoken fashionista with a penchant fo... | |
Oct.27.2006 | |
Austria's most glamourous couple were under police protection last night after a brazen kidnapping plot emerged. Fiona Swarovski, focus of the plot and milliona... | |
Oct.26.2006 | |
There have been so many strange bank robber stories floating around over the last few months that we're beginning to wonder whether it's all an extended April F... | |
Oct.26.2006 | |
In a moment of madness, many have flushed a wedding ring down the toilet, or flung a treasure out the window. However, a Viennese man resorted to a more dramati... | |
Oct.23.2006 | |
In a scene reminiscent of The Wizard Of Oz, a house has landed on the roof of a famous Vienna landmark. However, no green-faced witch has been wiped out yet. Ra... | |
Oct.23.2006 | |
An 85-year-old retired teacher from Michigan has made public an extraordinary heir-loom that shows the ugly face of pre-war Vienna. Stanley Baker spent some... | |
Oct.20.2006 | |
The owner of a public toilet facility in central Vienna has agreed to remove some urinals that have offended female members of parliament. The urinals in que... | |
Oct.18.2006 | |
The fate of Europe's art treasures during the Second World War has inspired dozens of books and scores of court cases. Even today, many of Central Europe's olde... | |
Oct.5.2006 | |
A descendent of one Europe's oldest circus families broke a hair-raising record yesterday in Austria's Saukaser Valley. But perhaps 'over' is a more apt word... | |
Sept.29.2006 | |
It's certainly not the intention of Vienna Life to use these pages as an arena to throw darts at hapless foes, but the emergence of the Euro 2008 mascots this w... | |
Sept.29.2006 | |
Movie lovers are in for a treat this week as one of the all-time classics of the cinema has just been re-released on DVD. Carol Reed's noirish thriller The Thir... | |
Sept.20.2006 | |
In the same week that a mysterious turn-of-the century Viennese conjurer arrived on our screens in the Hollywood epic The Illusionist, denizens of real-life mag... | |
Sept.12.2006 | |
It may well be a functional salt cellar, but it's hard to imagine anyone feeling overly hungry at the breakfast table when confronted by such a trinket. The rio... | |
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