This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna's City Hall has launched a ``sex hotline'' to raise money for the capital's main public library. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

With a divorce rate of 66%, Vienna is holding a fair where couples can come and get divorced. As well as lawyers and mediators, estate agents and DNA testers are turning up, too. picked by TheStep 9 months ago

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 picked by pocksucket 2 months ago

Police in Vienna are interrogating a man suspected of murdering a fellow homeless man and possibly eating his organs. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

A Pakistani man broke the world record for "ear-lifting" in Vienna Sunday, carrying almost 62 kilograms (137 pounds) from a cord attached to his right ear. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Vienna has launched a new anti-bias campaign for signs in public places to make people rethink gender-based stereotypes picked by moebel 2 years ago

He got thousands of pounds of funding made available by the authorities to create nuclear shelters in the Seventies Cold War era. picked by tigertony 3 months ago

Each year, wealthy Austrian businessman Richard Lugner invites a celebrity to be his guest at Vienna's exclusive Opera Ball. This year, Lugner and his wife will be accompanied by Paris Hilton picked by foxygirl 2 years ago

Elizabeth Fritzl revealed yesterday that she was forced to dig out the chambers by hand, working for hours at a time over the course of nearly a decade. picked by tigertony 3 months ago

It might be a good time to make strategic use of a yellow card. picked by mutil8or 4 months ago

Um...Eww picked by buddha 7 months ago

A father allegedly kept his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years, Austrian police said Sunday.

*Update to this story here. picked by dollyllama 3 months ago

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. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

The body of a 76-year-old woman found dead in her Vienna flat was left there for nine days because a doctor who registered the death forgot to notify a removal service. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Where leek violin meets cucumberphone. picked by suckersklub 1 year ago

Ludwig van Beethoven died on March 26, 1827, after four months of misery on a dirty straw mattress in Vienna. What brought on that downward spiral? Lead poisoning accidentally caused by his own doctor, says a journal article published today.


I didn't find a dupe when I searched, but I'm still skeptical... picked by marli 11 months ago

That's right! Microsoft revealed today intentions to start work on the next OS. picked by bonsai1776 1 year ago

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. picked by bevissimo 2 months ago

With the precision of a surgeon, Andreas Rupp carefully wraps sensor strips around a 21-tonne bell in Vienna's famous St Stephen's Cathedral. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues at the University of Vienna glued a condom to the jaw of a robotic frog equipped with an air pump and speaker. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago