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Today

• Vienna - Johnny\'s Pub Quiz
• Vienna- January and February at the Austrian Film Museum
• Vienna - Art by Petronilla Hohenwarter.
• STOMP at the MuseumsQuartier
• Ice skating at Rathaus

Around the World, page 3

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  Unhappy Slap
  An 11-year-old boy has asked police in Murmansk, Russia, to investigate his father because he spanked him when he misbehaved. Police confirmed that a ...
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  Take My Kid
  A loyal mum has offered one of her kidneys to any suitable patient who'll employ her unemployed 38-year-old son a job. ...
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  Bunged Up
  The cost of an average bung to a corrupt public official in Russia has trebled to nearly 5,000 GBP, a report by the country's Interior Ministry has re ...
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  A La Card
  A fed up restaurant owner in Treviso, Italy, has banned customers who won't show their identity cards saying the credit crunch has tripled the number ...

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  Prison Break
  A convicted killer suing prison authorities in Sweden claims she is owed compensation because she's never had paid holiday from her job behind bars. ...
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  Flocky Horror
  A pigeon fancier whose birds were butchered, cooked and then eaten by a burglar has branded the intruder "barbaric." ...
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  German Olympic Doping Scandal
  Anti-doping authorities are to examine 28 elite athletes treated by a leading medic from Germany's Olympic training centre said to have used banned bl ...
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  Sleeting Beauty
  A blonde Bolshoi ballet star amazed fans when she stripped off after a show and rolled naked in the snow outside to cool off. ...

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  Bomb Park
  Police are baffled after live heavy artillery shells were found in a picnic park in Dillenburg, Germany. ...
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  Cyber Crime
  Romania's President has proposed turning crooks from the country's flourishing cyber crime business into honest businessmen by using them to help expo ...
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  Two Thirds Of Moldovan Young Women In Prostitution
  Poverty is so severe in Europe's poorest country that more than two out of every three young women in Moldova has at some stage worked as a prostitute ...
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  Cool Hand Fluke
  Commuter Luigi Batelli, 28, was treated for severe frostbite on just his right hand when it was trapped outside by automatic train doors in Siena, Ita ...

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  Sausage Dog Gone
  Romanian's Viorel Iordan, 28, and Marian Maturaru, 37, have been accused of feeding dozens of guard dogs on local farms sausages laced with poison so ...
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  Queuedunit
  A man who beat his neighbour to death for making him wait too long in a queue to use a public loo is facing murder charges say police in Mumbai, India ...
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  Rape Jobs Row
  Government plans to give jobs to rape victims have been attacked by women's rights groups in India saying they will only encourage more men to attack ...
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  Lady Gaga: I Want A Baby
  Broody Born This Way star Lady Gaga has revealed she's looking for an Italian stallion to father a child with her through artificial insemination. ...

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  Wedding Snap
  So many weddings took place at the end of the month at Taizhou city in eastern China’s Zhejiang province that the cars with the married couples blocke ...
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  Pentagon Hacker Arrested
  A computer hacker accused of stealing military secrets from the Pentagon and posting them on his website has been arrested in Romania following an FBI ...
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  Chain Gang
  Muscle bound gym owner Mikhail Biryukov, 34, snapped a metal chain and then grabbed a gun and shot dead a kidnapper who was hoping to ransom him for a ...
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  End Of The Road
  Desperate Sanja Vukicevic buried her late uncle on a roadside grass verge after record 6ft snowfall cut off all ways to the cemetery in Medovina, Serb ...

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  Brit Diver Saved
  A British scuba diver who was rushed to intensive care after pulling off a record breaking 690ft deep dive in a Russian lake is recovering after 200 h ...
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  Park And Hide
  Trusting Maia Lomio has been left with hundreds of tickets and 25,000 GBP in fines after a parking service she used for three years simply abandoned h ...
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  Head Case
  Police hunting a deranged murderer dubbed the Jigsaw Killer in Prague, Czech Republic, are examining a severed head found dumped in the street. In a s ...
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  Sofa Its A Blank
  A drunk arrested as he snoozed on a stranger's sofa has told police he has no memory of breaking into the apartment or why he was there. ...

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  Pupping Out
  A woman who threw a pet dog from a tower block as she partied into the early hours of the morning is facing two years in jail for animal cruelty, say ...
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  Poohdunit
  A 26-year-old pig rustler was arrested when he handed himself in after enduring two hours of hiding out under a huge pile of manure in the porkers' st ...
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  Romanian Workers Get UK Jobs
  British bosses are offering thousands of new jobs to Romanian workers while UK unemployment figures soar to a new high, it has emerged. ...
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  Tough Act to Swallow
  To look at her you'd think butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. ...

Rising numbers of sheep and goats in Salzburg
The number of farms rearing sheep and goats has been on the increase in Salzburg, Austria for several years now. Domestic farming could still increase by a third as the European demand increases.

Strasser sues Austrian newspaper
The former European Parliament member Ernst Strasser will appear in court today (Mon) in connection with the 2011 cash for influence scandal. Strasser has accused the Upper Austrian News (OÖN) of slander.

Staud's expansion plan
Viennese jam company Staud’s who are famous for their preserve and compote range are expanding production in the capital. The plan calls for the building of a new company site in two years’ time in Ottakring. A new production hall will also be adapted at the current site in Hernals before then.

Le Salzgries
I enjoyed perhaps my most pleasurable eating out experience of the last thirty years one Thursday evening at Le Salzgries.

Record number of callouts as diesel freezes
The bitterly cold temperatures have not only been causing problems for humans in Austria but also for cars. In such harsh conditions, diesel in cars is known to crystallise and the engine cut out altogether.

Freezing temperatures claim life in Vienna
The freezing cold temperatures in Vienna, Austria claimed the life of an elderly woman over the weekend. The 86-year-old was found dead in her garden in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Baby taken over speeding fine
Austrian social workers have taken a baby away from his teenage mother because the toddler's grandmother had not paid a speeding fine.

Best of the winter bookshelf, part two
The Austrian Times offers an overview of what German-speaking Europe’s publishing houses have to offer.

ORF forced to leave Facebook
A media rights watchdog has ordered the ORF to exit Facebook.

Have mercy on gays, says Church rebel
The head of a group of "disobedient" parish priests has called for mercy on homosexuals.