By Rob Hyde A pair who biked to Gibralta as a pre-wedding test of their relationship, have returned to Austria. The couple had cycled from Hollenthon in Lower Austria to the rock of Gibralta, then flew back to Vienna, before biking the rest of the way home. They had journeyed all the way to the […]
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Viennese museum displays bits of the moon
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Three tests samples of moonstone are now on permanent display from NASA at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. The 84-gram piece of space rock and two soil tests collected from the moon’s surface during the 1971 Apollo-15 mission were presented in person by NASA boss Charles Bolden. Natural History Museum director Christian Köberl said: […]
‘Contagion’ on at the Burgkino Vienna
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Steven Soderbergh’s new medical thriller CONTAGION will be on at the Burgkino Vienna – where all films are screened in their original language versions – tomorrow (Weds). The film starring Matt Damon (“The Bourne Identity”, “The Departed”) and Laurence Fishburne (“Rumble Fish”, “Mission: Impossible III”) won wide acclaim by critics and crowds. David Cronenberg’s A […]
An Austrian solider faces legal charges for giving the Nazi Salute while on an international peacekeeping mission.The 19-year-old member of the militia branch of the Austrian army is accused of racially insulting Bosnians and an Austrian solider of Turkish origin at a recent birthday party in Bosnia-Herzegovina.Austria currently participates in the United Nations(UN) peacekeeping mission […]