| May 4, 2008 | - The sister-in-law of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician accused of locking his daughter in a basement dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, told the Associated Press that Fritzl hadn't had sex with his wife in many years: “I believe it was because my sister had been getting bigger,” she said. “He never liked fat women.”
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AP via Google
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| April 28, 2008 | - A 42-year-old Austrian woman, Elizabeth Fritzl, emerged from the basement cell where her father had, since 1984, allegedly imprisoned her and three of the seven children she then bore him. According to authorities, 73-year-old electrical engineer Josef concealed his daughter and their offspring from his wife Rosemarie by forging letters from Elizabeth saying that she was running away from home, then that she was leaving three of her children at their doorstep to be raised by them.
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New York Times
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| September 27, 2007 | - An Austrian judge refused to declare a chimpanzee a person.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| April 3, 2007 | - Polish burglars knocked over a sex shop in Austria, then used vibrators, prophylactics, and a vacuum cleaner to elude the police in a high-speed car chase.
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Metro UK
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| March 27, 2007 | -
Austrian
scientists claimed that men who sleep in the same bed as their partners may suffer reduced mental function.
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iol.co.za
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| February 7, 2007 | - Austrian federal
police uncovered a child pornography ring involving 2,360 suspects in more than 77 countries.
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BBC News
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| November 19, 2006 | - Researchers from Vienna and Massachusetts were studying aggression in fruit flies by crushing the heads of female fruit flies and encouraging two males to fight over the corpses.
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Reuters
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| November 19, 2006 | - In Hillah, Iraq, a man promising work lured day-laborers into a minivan, then blew it up, killing 22 people. “The ground was covered with the remains of people and blood,” said a laborer, “and survivors ran in all directions.” Thirty people were killed in attacks in Mosul, Baquba, and Baghdad, four American security contractors and an Austrian were kidnapped in Basra, and a deputy health minister was kidnapped in Baghdad. “Where is the government?” yelled a woman in Mashtal, after multiple bombs killed 11 civilians. “Women and children were killed. God is great, God is great.”
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ABC News
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| July 20, 2006 | -
Scientists in Austria recommended that men sleep alone to better safeguard their brainpower.
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BBC
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| December 23, 2005 | - Authorities in Vienna, Austria, determined that people dressed as devils can legally smack the rear ends of strangers on Christmas.
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Local Government International Bureau
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| August 27, 2005 | -
Europe, previously burning, was flooding. Floods killed 33 people in Romania, and parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Poland were under water.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 27, 2005 | - The Austrian housewares chain Baumax renamed their tool shed from “Mauthausen,” which was the name of a Nazi concentration camp, to “Linde,” which means “linden tree.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | - It was extremely windy in Austria and Slovakia.
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ABC News
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| October 2, 2004 | - The Pope beatified Karl I, the last emperor of Austria, an alcoholic
adulterer who performed a miracle and used poison gas during World War I; the miracle allegedly occured in 1960, when a Polish nun prayed to Karl and was cured of sores and varicose veins.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| May 15, 2001 | - An Austrian girl was attacked by a record-breaking 150 blood-sucking ticks and survived.
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