Olympics host Vancouver ranked world's most liveable city
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Vancouver has again topped a list of the top 10 most liveable cities in the world, giving the Canadian west coast city an extra boost as it opens the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Nations:Canada Australia South Africa Austria Nigeria Pakistan Source:(Reuters)
2010-02-12
Police: Victim in Sikh temple shooting dies
VIENNA - Sikhs wielding knives and a handgun attacked two preachers at a rival temple in Vienna in a brawl that left one of the victims dead Monday and at least 15 others wounded, police said. A related clash later broke out in northern India.
Nations:Austria India Source:(AP)
2009-05-24
Experts: Child porn rings hard to track
The numbers behind an international child pornography bust Wednesday were themselves disturbing: Nearly 2,400 suspects from 77 countries allegedly paid to view videos depicting sexual abuse online. But the nature of Internet traffic makes it sadly unsurprising that people would figure they could hide so much hideous material.
Nations:Austria Germany People:Alberto Gonzales
2007-02-07
Child porn ring uncovered in Austria
Austrian authorities said Wednesday they have uncovered a major international child pornography ring involving more than 2,360 suspects from 77 countries, including hundreds in the United States, who paid to view videos of young children being sexually abused.
Nations:Austria Algeria South Africa Germany France
2007-02-07
Holocaust deniers' meeting spurs outrage
A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis' systematic extermination of 6 million Jews.
Nations:Iran Germany France Austria U.K. Hungary People:Ehud Olmert Angela Merkel Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tony Blair Activities:Holocaust 2006 Muslim Cartoon Crisis
2006-12-12
Austrian kidnap girl only thought of escape: media
Austrian Natascha Kampusch said all she could think of during her eight year kidnap ordeal was how to escape from her "hen battery" and that she was afraid of sparking a killing spree with her flight, Austrian media said.
Nations:Austria
2006-09-06
Austria police seek accomplices of child captor
Austrian police said on Friday they were searching for possible accomplices of a kidnapper who held a young girl in a tiny room under his garage for eight years until her dramatic escape this week.
Nations:Sweden Austria
2006-08-25
Austrian police find long-missing girl
Natascha Kampusch vanished on her way to school on March 2, 1998, when she was 10. Police said Thursday they were "quite sure" she is the young woman who turned up this week claiming she had been a captive, confined much of the time in a small cellar.
Nations:Austria
2006-08-24
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