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Beds Made Of Hay Are Latest Hotel Craze

cnn.com | George Webster for CNN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Hotels, Beds Made of Hay, Austria, Switzerland, Hotel Trends, Germany, Hay Beds, Vacation, Green News

In Germany and its European neighbors Austria and Switzerland, a long weekend in a converted barn - sleeping on a bed of freshly raked hay -- is fast...

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Top 10 Places I Want to Travel to Before I Die

Maria Rodale | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Top Ten List, Travel, Australia, Morocco, Austria, India, Czech Republic, Mongolia, Vienna, Prague, Jerusalem-Israel, Israel, Sydney-Australia, Living News

I am going to share my list of the top 10 places I want to go to before I die (in no particular order, although I hope dying comes last).

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World In Photos: July 21, 2009 (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Waraw, India, Austria, Lebanon, Slideshow, Poland, World Photos, Tour De France, Italy, Fina World Swimming Championships, Japan, Japan Mudslide, Slidepoll, World in Photos, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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Must it be Business as Usual as the People of Iran Hang in the Balance?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Twitter, Lindsay Graham, World News, Siemens, Switzerlan, Khameni, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Iraq, Obama, Facebook, Merkel, Ahmadinejad, Iran, Austria, Schumer, Germany, United Nations, Youtube, Wiesel, World News

Citizen lobbies and elected representatives have to ask this simple question: do we have to do business with people who do business with the Mullahs?

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Western Gas Pipeline Agreement Signed By Turkey, 4 European Countries

The New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE | Posted 08.13.2009 | World

Read More: Nabucco Pipeline, Russia, Europe Gas Pipeline, Hungary, Western Gas Pipeline, Turkey, Russian Gas, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, Europe, World News

A project for a gas pipeline that would reduce Europe's dependence on Russian gas cleared a hurdle on Monday when four European governments signed an ...

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Austrian Fashion Designers Can't Wait To See Bruno

Telegraph UK | Posted 08.02.2009 | Style

Read More: Bruno Movie, Sasha Baron Cohen, Style, Bruno, Austrian Fashion Designers, Bruno and Austrians, Fashion, Austria, Austrians, Style News

In the new film, a sequel to surprise 2006 box-office hit, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," in w...

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EU Parliament: Conservatives Score Wins On Message Of Economic Recovery

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

LONDON — A volatile mix of apathy, anger and economic uncertainty translated into gains for extreme-right parties in European parliamentary elec...

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The Reality of Aid (II)

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Norway, Netherlands, Aid, United States, Luxembourg, Sweden, Humanitarian Aid, Denmark, Foreign Policy, Germany, Egypt, Switzerland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Japan, Austria, Italy, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Portugal, Israel, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, Greece, Spain, World News

Only five countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) have met the United Nations' target of providing 0.7 percent of their gross national income in aid to poor countries.

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Vienna: Sikh Preacher Dies After Temple Attack, Sparking Riots

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 06.25.2009 | World

VIENNA — Investigators believe a sermon at a Sikh temple set off an attack that saw worshippers use a frying pan and microphone stands to fend o...

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Bill Clinton's Viennese Ball

Sabine Heller | Posted 06.20.2009 | Style

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Life Ball, Bill Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, Slideshow, Vienna Life Ball, Clinton Global Initiative AIDS, Fran Drescher, Bill Clinton AIDS, Maggie Rizer, Bill Clinton Life Ball, Austria, Vienna, Style News

After the concert, in typical Clintonian manner, the empathetic former president warmed the room by bowing to and hugging the lead violinist. The gathering focused attention on the real reason behind the celebration -- raising money for the fight against AIDS.

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Austria's Far Right On The March Again

Daily Mail | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Austria Elections, Austria, Austria Far Right, Foreign Affairs, Gottfried Kussel, Europe, Facism, Advocacy, World News

In Austria's recent general election, nearly 30 per cent of voters backed extremist right-wing parties. Live visits the birthplace of Hitler to invest...

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Quick Pic: Katy Perry Comes Out Of Her Shell

The Frisky | The Frisky | Posted 06.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Vienna-Austria, Austria, Home News

Performing at 17th Life Ball, which benefits AIDS and HIV patients. [Vienna, Austria, 5/17/09] ...

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Roxana Saberi, Freed From Iran, Arrives In Austria

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Roxana Saberi, Roxana Saberi Released, Austria, Iran Journalist, World News

VIENNA — After four months in an Iranian prison, American journalist Roxana Saberi was savoring her first taste of freedom back in the West _ be...

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Austrian Bed And Breakfest Denied Jewish Customers

Jerusalem Post | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Austrian Bed and Breakfest, Anti-Semetic, Jews, Austria, Anti-Semitic, Jewish, Foreign Affairs, Jewish Culture, Europe, Anti-Semite, Advocacy, World News

The owner of a bed and breakfast in the Austrian town of Serfaus refused earlier this month to book rooms to a family because they were Jews....

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Sri Lanka: West Appalled by Bloodbath but Action is Scarce

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: France, Sri Llanka Civilian Deaths, David Milliband, Sri Lanka, Russia, Prime Minister Taro Aso, Imf, Bernard Kouchner, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Sergey Lavrov, Un, Britain, Austria, Japan, World News

While U.N. officials have regularly expressed concern at events in Sri Lanka, the bloody war is not high on most nations' agenda.

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EU Seeking Energy Independence From Russia

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 06.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Prague, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Russia, Austria, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Home News

The European Union and Turkey gave fresh political impetus on Friday to the ambitious Nabucco pipeline project, although key Central Asian gas supplie...

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Swine Flu Hits Germany, Austria; WHO Calls Emergency Review

AP | PATRICK McGROARTY | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

GENEVA — The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a globa...

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The World In Photos: April 24, 2009

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, South Asia, Slideshow, Armenia Genocide Anniversary, Jacob Zuma South Africa, Armenia, South Africa, Jacob Zuma, Austria, Jerusalem, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers, Africa, Armenia Genocide, Vienna Austria, Europe, Vienna, World Photos, World News

Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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"Pig Brother" Austrian "Reality Show" To Promote Bacon Fair

AFP | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Video, Pig Brother, Bacon, Animals, Austria, Pigs, Green News

From the not-making-this-up department: Move over Miss Piggy, show business has found its new pink-snouted celebrities -- meet Piggy, Lilly, Pauli an...

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Paul Krugman Angers Austria's Bankers, Politicians by Stating the Obvious

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Great Depression, Austria, International Monetary Fund, Banking Crisis, Imf, Global Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize, Global Economic Crisis, Business News

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman stirred the ire and indignation of Austria's political and financial establishment by merely stating the obvious. No European state is in as precarious a state as Austria.

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A Mother, Her Son and a Test of America's New Foreign Policy

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aeryn Gilleran, Austria, Missing Persons, Kathy Gilleran, Pflag, Vienna, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Politics News

Because until the search for Aeryn is taken seriously, we cannot truly say that LGBT equality - and respect for the dignity of LGBT people - is a pillar of U.S. foreign policy.

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MPAA Gives 'Bruno' NC-17 Rating

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Sacha Baron Cohen, Kazakhstan, Austria, Home News

In its current incarnation, Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" would earn an adults-only NC-17 rating from the MPAA's ratings board, the filmmakers have be...

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'Italian Fritzl' Arrested With Son For Enslaving Daughter: Police

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Italian Fritzl, Child Abuse, Abuse, Crime, Josef Fritzl, Italy, Josef Frizl Sentence, Sexual Abuse, Europe, Italian Josef Fritzl, Josef Fritzl Trial, Sexual Violence, Rape, Austria, Fritzl, Italian Frizl, Turin Abused Daughter 25 Years, Italian Man Who Raped His Daughter, World News

An Italian man from Turin has been arrested for sexually abusing his daughter for over 25 years and encouraging his son to do the same. This case has...

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Josef Fritzl Trial: Jurors View Video Of Daughter's Testimony On Day 2

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 04.17.2009 | World

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ST. POELTEN, Austria — The woman who bore seven children through incest and was allegedly locked in a squalid dungeon for 24 years confronted he...

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Financial Crisis Goes Global, Slams into Europe

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

Read More: Organized Crime, Europe, Bear Stearns, Global Financial Crisis, Austria, Tim Geithner, Tony Soprano, Cosa Nostra, Mob, Mafia, Danube University, World News

People in the EU have politicized economic issues perhaps because of a more diverse media environment as well as the expectation that governments have a duty to protect their people.

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