Naked photo shoot

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General News

Staff working on the Vienna underground system have been closely studying CCTV footage for a clue as to the identity of a naked young woman wearing nothing but a pair of knee length leather boots on the train who travelled  several stops before getting off again. The woman seemed undisturbed by the fact that she […]

Faymann suffers Facebook fiasco

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Politics

The office of Social Democratic (SPÖ) chief Werner Faymann is accused of using unfair methods trying to boost the chancellor’s presence on the internet after a mediocre start. The SPÖ boss launched his profile on social networking site Facebook on last month’s Austrian National Day when political observers expected him to speak out on the […]

World Press Photo exhibit returns to Vienna

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Culture

The world’s best press photographs are now on display at a Viennese gallery.The Galerie Westlicht in Vienna-Neubau is the Austrian location for the World Press Photo exhibit for a ninth year in a row. More than 18,000 people attended the last year’s World Press Photo exhibition at the gallery. Around 170 selected images are on […]

Legendary studio’s archives opened for upcoming photo exhibit

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Culture

More than 100 photographs from the archive of one of Vienna’s most renowned studios will be on display at the city’s WestLicht (www.westlicht.com) gallery from next week.Organisers of the “Photo Simonis” exhibit said today (Thurs) the archive material of the studio of the same name was rescued when the company stopped doing business in 2005. […]

‘Voodoo terrorists’ nicked

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A married couple and a Graz man who used voodoo to terrorise a family in Abtissendorf in Styria’s Graz-Umgebung district have been arrested.Police said today (Fri) they had traced threatening SMS messages sent from the married couple to the family.The husband, 46, his wife, 23, and an accomplice, a 46-year-old Graz man, were arrested and […]