Harrison Ford ‘too lazy’ for movie production business

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Hollywood superstar Harrison Ford has revealed he is “way too lazy” to set up his own production company.Dozens of a-list actors have established their own movie production businesses in the past years, but the “Indiana Jones” star stressed he is not wasting a thought on such endeavours.”I’m way too lazy for that. I always wanted […]

Study shows most priests want end of celibacy

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A majority of Austrian Catholic priests want celibacy to be abolished, a survey has revealed.Researchers from Kepler University in the Upper Austrian city of Linz said today (Weds) 59 per cent of the clergy they spoke to said they backed the idea of putting an end to the ruling. Study leaders said they interviewed 406 […]

Majority’s opinion of Google worse after WLAN data scandal

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A vast majority of Austrians said they have a worse opinion of Google after it emerged that the company garnered information about wireless LAN internet access when preparing its Street View service.Public opinion agency Oekonsult said today (Mon) 90.3 per cent of the around 1,100 people they interviewed told them their opinion of the American […]

Record 2010 Church exodus expected after whopping first-quarter figures

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More Austrians than ever in history are expected to leave the Catholic Church this year.Official figures from today (Thurs) show that 30,004 people left the Church in the first three months of this year, up by 42 per cent compared to the same time span of 2009 when more people than ever cancelled their membership.These […]

Rosenkranz calls for shut borders to combat ‘crime import’

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Barbara Rosenkranz, the right-wing Freedom Party’s (FPÖ) presidential candidate, said yesterday (Thurs) she wanted Austria to leave the Schengen border agreement.Rosenkranz announced she would reintroduce border checks if she wins the 25 presidential election.Speaking about soaring crime figures, the FPÖ Lower Austria boss referred to crooks from Eastern Europe when she said that the “import […]

Majority says Pope should resign

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A vast majority of Austrians think the Pope should step down were there a rule that enabled him to do so.Vienna-based public opinion research agency Karmasin found that 57 per cent of Austrians are of the opinion Pope Benedict XVI should resign amid sex abuse incidents at Catholic institutions across Europe.Only 34 per cent of […]

Jewish community slams FPÖ’s contact with Jobbik

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The Austrian Jewish Community (IKG) yesterday (Weds) condemned a recent Freedom Party (FPÖ) meeting with the far-right Hungarian Jobbik party.IKG said it was angry that “democratic parties had said nothing” about the FP֒s contact with “the openly neo-fascist Hungarian Jobbik party.”FPÖ foreign affairs spokesman and MP Johannes Hübner admitted yesterday that Jobbik members had visited […]