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Times Online
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Three girls who were imprisoned by their mother in a house of indescribable filth for seven years may never recover from the ordeal, experts said last night. The girls were shut away from the outside world, existing in almost complete darkness, playing..
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Yahoo News
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An Austrian businessman announced Thursday that he would get rid of urinals shaped like a woman's mouth from a public toilet near Vienna's national opera, after facing pressure from politicians who demanded their removal...
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BBC News
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A judge in Austria has extended by another month the detention of Josef Fritzl, who is accused of imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years.
The ruling came at a 15-minute, closed-door hearing in St Poelten, where Mr Fritzl is being held.
Mr F..
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BBC News
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Austria's justice minister has admitted police were too quick to believe Josef Fritzl, the man who imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years.
Maria Berger said Mr Fritzl's account that his daughter ran away to join a cult was not sufficiently ques..
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CNN
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An avalanche fell on a street in an Alpine town in Austria, close to many ski resorts, covering the roadway in 3-4 meters of snow, but no one was hurt, Austrian police said Tuesday.
The avalanche happened at 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET) in the town of Ims..
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BBC News
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A checkpoint between Austria and Slovakia has been dismantled in a symbolic ceremony marking the enlargement of the Schengen area.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer sawed through a barrier at the Berg border cr..
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BBC News
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Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Austria for a three-day visit, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
The pontiff, brought up in the German province of Bavaria, will also visit a Catholic shrine to the Virgi..
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SF Gate
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An American scholar accused of promoting revolution in Iran has been allowed to leave the country and reunite with her family in Austria, ending months of protests by human-rights groups and heated exchanges between Tehran and Washington.
Haleh Esfandi..
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FOX News
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Workers remodeling a house in western Austria found the bodies of two infants, and police discovered a third set of remains after a search, authorities said Saturday.
Officials said the discovery was made Friday at an apartment building in the alpine c..
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BBC News
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has asked Austria to mediate in his crippling political dispute with President Viktor Yushchenko.
Mr Yanukovych was speaking at a news conference. He says Mr Yushchenko acted illegally by calling a snap electi..
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