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Former hostage is transformed into TV star Posted: 5 months ago by bevissimo
VIENNA, Austria - Television was once her only window on the world. Now Natascha Kampusch — still adjusting to life after spending 8 1/2 years in an underground cell — is starting an improbable new career as a TV talk show host.
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Gold Scroll Discovered: Earliest Evidence Of Jewish Inhabitants In Austria Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Archaeologists from the Institute of Prehistory and Early History of the University of Vienna have found an amulet inscribed with a Jewish prayer in a Roman child’s grave dating back to the 3rd century CE at a burial ground in the Austrian town of Halbturn. This amulet shows that people of Jewish faith lived in what is today Austria since the Roman Empire.
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Minimum-security prison in Austria Posted: 5 months ago by kamaloo
The kind of prison that makes you want to break the law.
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Mass motorway pile-up in Austria Posted: 7 months ago by scazy-lumbag
This is one of my worst nightmares.. kinda reminds me of that scene in Final Destination.. Only one death, kinda lucky judging by the mess :(
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Woman fights for chimp's rights Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A woman in Austria is engaged in a legal battle to win legal guardianship of a chimpanzee to fight for its "human" rights. Keeper Paula Stibbe, a native Briton, said primates such as Matthew -- the chimp in question -- should be given the same rights as human beings in the legal system.
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4 Returned Klimt Works Heading to Auction Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
Four of five paintings by Gustav Klimt that were relinquished by Austria this year after a long legal battle are to be auctioned on Nov. 8 at Christie’s.
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Austrian Court to Decide Whether Chimps have Human Rights Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
A chimp's DNA is 96-98.4 per cent similar to that of humans. Wild apes have also been known to hunt with home-made spears, fight battles, and make peace. Do they deserve human rights?
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Teen 'wants to buy dungeon house' Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
I don't know who owns the place, but they ought to just give her the house.
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Elisabeth Fritzl: I never want to see Josef again Posted: 5 months ago by jhordie
Elisabeth Fritzl, the woman held captive by her sadistic father for 24 years has spoken about her ordeal with her reunited family and has vowed she never wants to see her father's face again.
It's good to hear they're doing fairly well.
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Incest family hold 'astonishing' reunion Posted: 6 months ago by DaftGretel
"They met each other on Sunday morning," clinic director Berthold Kepplinger told reporters Tuesday. "And it is astonishing how easy it worked, that the children came together and also it was astonishing how easy it happened that the grandmother and the mother came together."
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.5 mil crucifix found in Austrian Garbage Posted: 1 year ago by blurmore
I'm sure someone will take it as a sign.
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Flame Thrower vs. In-laws Posted: 1 week ago by BrownTrout
Either these people were a colossal pain in the ass or this guy is taking evil to a new level. Either way - you can guess the end result.
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Nudists to Pack Soccer Stadium for Photo Shoot Posted: 6 months ago by mutil8or
It might be a good time to make strategic use of a yellow card.
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Boy, five, who had never eaten amazes parents by tasting food for the first time after pioneering treatment Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
The parents of a five-year-old boy who had never eaten have revealed their delight after he tucked into to a plate full of food for the first time after receiving specialist treatment in Austria.
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Update: Offensive urinals now for sale on eBay Posted: 2 years ago by hypnotode
EBay (Canada) is now selling the banned Austrian urinals shaped like a mouth. Ships worldwide!
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Spencer Tunick does Vienna Posted: 5 months ago by pocksucket
Pop your tops off and leave them over there. That's lovely. All 1,800 of you.
Showing no signs of giving it a rest, Spencer Tunick got a bunch of Austrians to pose in the nip in Ernst-Happel Stadium
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Chainsaw Suicide Posted: 11 months ago by suckersklub
An Austrian (19) beheaded himself with a chainsaw.
Eeeeew.
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Latest twist: Austrian incest dungeon paid for with government grant Posted: 5 months ago by tigertony
He got thousands of pounds of funding made available by the authorities to create nuclear shelters in the Seventies Cold War era.
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"Nooo... please, don't!" Posted: 1 year ago by suckersklub
Austrian artist turns Porsche 911 into a sculpture.
Name: "Compression".
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Daughter kept in cellar for 24 years Posted: 6 months ago by dollyllama
A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.
*Update to this story here.
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