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  • June 2008

    • Spain Claims Euro '08 Title

      Associated Press  |  Jun 29, 08 4:23 PM CDT

      Spain Claims Euro '08 Title

      (Newser) - After beating Italy and Germany to win its first title in 44 years,  Spain no longer needs to think of itself as an underachieving soccer nation. The "Red Fury" won their second European Championship, playing with flair, finesse, and a determination that the team had lacked in so many previous competitions. More »

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      Germany  • Spain  • soccer  • Vienna  • Euro 2008

    • Euro Cup Arena Covers Vienna's Dark Past

      Radio Free Netherlands  |  Jun 28, 08 7:10 PM CDT

      Euro Cup Arena Covers Vienna's Dark Past

      (Newser) - The Vienna stadium that will host tomorrow's Euro Cup final hides a brutal past beneath the stands, where more than the 1,000 Jewish prisoners were held in 1939. Nazis took medical samples and made plaster casts of the prisoners, who were allowed outside daily but could not step on the grass—because soccer games were still being played there. More »

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      Austria  • Holocaust  • Jews  • Vienna  • Euro 2008

  • May 2008

    • Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

      Times (UK)  |  May 18, 08 8:03 PM CDT

      Fritzl's Crimes Rooted in Literary History

      (Newser) - Josef Fritzl's crimes stunned the world, but such demented patriarchs have long haunted Austrian literature. The dark 1852 story "Turmalin" depicts a deranged husband locking up his daughter; the 1917 novel The Grave of the Living tells of a troubled family and an imprisoned child. "This is the cultural matrix from which Josef Fritzl emerged," writes Ritchie Robertson in the Times Literary Supplement . More »

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      torture  • literature  • Josef Fritzl  • incest  • Vienna  • patriarchy

    • Austrian Man Murders Family With Ax

      CNN  |  May 15, 08 5:43 AM CDT

      Austrian Man Murders Family With Ax

      (Newser) - Austria made crime headlines again yesterday when a man walked into a Vienna police station and confessed to killing five family members with an ax, CNN reports. He killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter, as well as his parents and father-in-law in other cities, a police spokesman said. Police found the five bodies with ax wounds. The man cited “financial difficulties” as his motive. More »

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      murder  • family  • Austria  • Vienna

  • April 2008

    • 'Gay Last Supper' Sparks Rage

      ABC News  |  Apr 9, 08 11:14 AM CDT

      'Gay Last Supper' Sparks Rage

      (Newser) - A tiny Vienna museum with ties to the Catholic Church has became the target of worldwide outrage after displaying a homoerotic mural depicting the Last Supper, ABC News reports. The painting, by one of Austria's most cherished artists, shows naked apostles drinking and having an orgy. It has now been removed, and the row has been characterized as a Catholic version of the Mohamed cartoon uproar. More »

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      art  • Catholic Church  • painting  • artist  • Vienna  • blasphemy  • orgy  • The Last Supper

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • Vienna's Baby Panda Says Hello

      Associated Press  |  Jan 31, 08 9:03 AM CST

      Vienna's Baby Panda Says Hello

      (Newser) - Vienna's newest celebrity made his debut yesterday as the 5-month-old panda Fu Long met the public for the first time. The Austrian capital's Schönbrunn Zoo had to issue a statement to anxious panda fans that the cloistered cub was healthy and growing strong. Only yesterday afternoon did Fu Long emerge to an adoring crowd, although the zoo's director told the AP that the panda is more of "a night owl." More »

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      Austria  • zoo  • panda  • Vienna

  • November 2007
  • October 2007

    • 'Bomber' Busted in Vienna Fleeing US Embassy

      BBC  |  Oct 2, 07 3:46 AM CDT

      'Bomber' Busted in Vienna Fleeing US Embassy

      (Newser) - Austrian police yesterday arrested a man after his explosives-laden backpack set off alarms at the US embassy in Vienna. He fled when the bag, filled with grenade-like bombs and nails, triggered metal detectors. He was caught soon after nearby and told police that an acquaintance, who was also later detained, had given him the bag. More »

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      terrorism  • War on Terror  • Vienna

  • September 2007

    • Jazz Giant Zawinul Dead at 75

      Associated Press  |  Sep 11, 07 7:28 PM CDT

      Jazz Giant Zawinul Dead at 75

      (Newser) - Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist who plugged America into "Electric Jazz" in the 1970s, has died at age 75. Best known for playing jazz-rock fusion with Miles Davis and starting up Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Zawinul defended his electric sound against jazz purists. "There is no difference between a Stradivarius or a beautiful synthesizer sound," he once said. More »

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      obituary  • Austria  • musician  • Vienna  • jazz  • Miles Davis  • electric

    • Pope Blasts Wasted Weekends

      RTE (Ireland)  |  Sep 10, 07 8:25 AM CDT

      Pope Blasts Wasted Weekends

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict has urged Catholics to  keep Sunday special amid the  "mad rush" of the modern world. He encouraged people to set the day aside for reflection on faith and the dangers humans pose to the world, including destruction of "God's creation," an apparent reference to environmental harm. More »

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      religion  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Catholicism  • Austria  • Vienna  • Sundays  • weekend

    • Pope Honors Holocaust Victims

      BBC  |  Sep 7, 07 5:05 PM CDT

      Pope Honors Holocaust Victims

      (Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute today to the 65,000 Austrian victims of the Holocaust at the start of his three-day visit to Austria, BBC reports. Alongside Jewish leaders, the pontiff expressed “sadness, repentance, and friendship” at a monument honoring those killed by the Nazis. Benedict tomorrow leads a pilgrimage to an 850-year-old Catholic shrine outside Vienna, according to VOA. More »

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      Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Nazi  • Austria  • Holocaust  • Jews  • Vienna

  • August 2007

    • Panda Fever Takes Vienna

      Associated Press  |  Aug 24, 07 5:58 AM CDT

      Panda Fever Takes Vienna

      (Newser) - After Berlin's paroxysms over the polar cub Knut, now it's Vienna's turn: the giant panda Yang Yang has given birth to a 3.5-ounce cub, the first born in Europe in 25 years. The birth was a complete surprise; Yang Yang had shown no signs of pregnancy during a recent ultrasound, but zookeepers detected squealing from her compound yesterday. More »

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      Austria  • zoo  • panda  • Knut  • Vienna

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