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“When I arrived in a city, I was feeling lost, and just wanted to meet other expats and discover the best places to go.” That was how former journalist Malte Zeeck used to feel whenever sent on a new assignment – and that was the motivation that led him comparatively recently to set up what […]

Plane lands in field after engine failure

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A 26-year-old pilot had to carry out an emergency landing on a corn field when the engine of his small aircraft stopped working at an altitude of 2,000 metres.None of the five people on board were injured when the Cessna 182 touched down on an agricultural field near Gmunden, Upper Austria, yesterday (Sun). The group […]

Dad of vanished Brit criticises Austrian police

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A British man has hit out at police over their decision-making in investigating his son’s disappearance in the Austrian-German border region half a year ago.Christopher Miles, who lived in Zell am See in the Austrian province of Salzburg, was last seen in Ruhpolding, Bavaria, on 31 July 2010.The 29-year-old’s dad Nick Palmer-Miles, from Langar in […]

Teen stuck in basketball hoop

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Firemen freed a Viennese teenager after he got stuck in a basketball hoop yesterday (Weds).The 12-year-old tried to climb through the steel chain hoop at a playground in Vienna-Leopoldstadt as part of a test of courage among pals.The teen’s friends called fire-fighters after he got entangled with his upper body. Firemen used bolt cutters to […]

‘Stupid’ Facebook flick star Timberlake sticks to e-mails

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Justin Timberlake has revealed he shuns social network platforms because he is “stupid in this regard”.The former member of boy band ‘N Sync stars as Sean Parker, co-founder of internet music sharing platform Napster, in the new blockbuster “The Social Network”. The acclaimed movie tells the rise of online platform Facebook and its inventor Mark […]

Brit arrested for alleged human trafficking attempt

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A Briton has been arrested for trying to smuggle six Afghans illegally into France.Police in Kufstein, Tyrol, said today (Mon) the British driver, 34, told them that the six passengers – of whom one was found in the boot – were friends of a friend and he agreed to give them a lift to Paris […]