Vienna Jihad Girls Want To Come Home

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General News

The two Austrian teenage girls who became ‘poster girls’ for the jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after getting completely disillusioned with their new lifestyles. Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, who grew up in the Austrian capital Vienna and enjoyed the freedom to wear whatever they wanted, and […]

Austrian Olympic secretary jailed

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Sports

A top Olympic official who funded a champagne lifestyle by using the organisations cash as if it was his own has been jailed. Heinz Jungwirth, former long standing Secretary General of the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC), has been sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement and ordered to pay a fine of 1.5 million […]

Artistic critics wanted

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Culture

We are expanding our coverage of arts, culture and lifestyle and are looking for reviewers and correspondents not just in Vienna but around the country interested in contributing articles in this area.Editor David Rogers said: “Austria is the cultural heartland of Europe – and it is only proper that the country’s cultural heritage is properly […]

Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter to attend Vienna fashion event

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Culture

British model Kiera Sunshine Chaplin will attend the event on 15 March at Vienna’s Museum Quarter at which the Vienna Awards for Fashion & Lifestyle will be announced, it emerged yesterday (Weds).Chaplin, the granddaughter of late actor Charlie Chaplin, will receive a Special Lifestyle Icon award at the event.Marjan Firouz, who is handling public relations […]