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The first skydiver to break the speed of sound has died in a paraglider crash in Italy

By Colleen Barry, John Seewer and The Associated Press
July 17, 2025
Presenter: Yvonne Winter, Cofounder and Chief Operating Officer, FlyNow Aviation
Conferences

Co-founder of air taxi group thinks driving is so painful that people will choose to take to the skies in pilotless vehicles

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May 21, 2025
Scientists have found the perfect tactic to grab your dog’s attention. Hint: it’s all in the gaze
Lifestyle

Scientists have found the perfect tactic to grab your dog’s attention. Hint: it’s all in the gaze

By Pierre Celerier and AFP
February 12, 2025
erbert Kickl, leader of the far-right Austria Freedom Party
Politics

Who is Herbert Kickl? The Trump-like politician could be the first far-right leader in Austria since WWII

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January 6, 2025
Asutrian privacy activist Max Schrems in Vienna, Austria, 3 April 2017.
Tech

Meta faces new limits on ad-targeting in Europe as nemesis Max Schrems wins again at EU’s highest court

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October 4, 2024
Austria’s far right heads for first national election win since end of World War II 
Politics

Austria’s far right heads for first national election win since end of World War II 

By Stephanie Liechtenstein and The Associated Press
September 29, 2024
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND - JULY 09: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY AND NO COMMERCIAL USE AT ANY TIME. NO USE ON BOOK COVERS.) Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at Stadion Letzigrund Zürich on July 09, 2024 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Noam Galai/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management )
Lifestyle

Taylor Swift cancels Vienna concerts after terror attack threat—affecting over 170,000 attendees

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August 8, 2024
A bus and car on fire on O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre after violent scenes unfolded following an attack on Parnell Square East where five people were injured, including three young children.
Lifestyle

Manure-dumping farmers and far-right extremists made Western Europe less livable last year

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June 26, 2024
Marlene Engelhorn holding up a board that says "tax the rich"
Personal Finance

An Austrian heiress, who supports taxing the rich and doesn’t believe in philanthropy, just wrote away a large chunk of her $27 million fortune

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June 19, 2024
Robot with a machine gun. Military robots
Tech

AI takes center stage in target selection and strikes in Ukraine and Gaza, marking ‘the Oppenheimer moment of our generation’

By Jonathan Tirone and Bloomberg
April 30, 2024
Marlene Engelhorn
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‘Extreme wealth as power must be regulated’: 31-year-old heiress is letting 50 strangers give her $27 million fortune away

By Sophie Alexander and Bloomberg
March 15, 2024
Tourists walk around the Plague Column at the Graben street in Vienna, Austria.
Lifestyle

World’s best cities for expats are almost all in the most-expensive parts of Europe—and the U.S. and U.K. are way down the list

By Alex Millson and Bloomberg
December 12, 2023
A person holding euro notes
Lifestyle

Austrians are so worried their colorful cash might die out they’re trying to enshrine its use as a constitutional right

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August 7, 2023
Vienna, Austria
Lifestyle

U.S. completely fails to make the list of Top 10 places to live

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August 8, 2022
Skiers in front of mountain lodge Guide del Cervino in the Italian Alps
Environment

Italian-Swiss border near one of the world’s largest ski resorts is shifting due to climate change — and a mountain lodge is caught in the middle

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July 28, 2022

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