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Gordon Brown rejected advice from Lord Mandelson to seek one of the big economic posts in the European Commission for Britain once it was clear that Tony Blair could not succeed in becoming Europe’s first president, The Times...
As we speed up the mountain on one of Obergurgl's newly built, state-of-the-art chairlifts, conversation turns to the subject of marmot fat. There are lots of marmots up here, close to the border with Italy. In fact, we have...
The identity of the inventor of the ski-chalet holiday is a matter of some dispute. According to one school of thought, it was a British-based Austrian woman named Erna Low, who in 1932 placed an advertisement in the Morning...
First holiday memory? It was a different kind of holiday to the ones I'm used to, but it was great to see my children's faces when they got to have lunch with Princess Belle. It was the first time we had been to Cornwall and it...
Jeanne-Claude met Christo in Paris after he had fled, via Austria, from the intolerable restrictions of the communist bloc in Bulgaria. The year was 1958. From then on these two brave, determined and resourceful artists worked...
Can an Austrian-built Aston Martin four-door ever make a fitting flagship for the unbroken, 97-year line of Aston sports cars that preceded it - every one of them designed and built in England? In order to find out, Autocar...
BERLIN, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Europe was riddled with a soccer match-fixing betting scandal involving more than 200 suspected members who fixed or tried to fix around 200 matches across the continent. The matches concerned...
I am David Edlinger, a 9-year-old boy. I live at St. Polten, capital of Lower Austria, a state of Austria. My father works in a symphony orchestra and my mother is a staff in the state center hospital. I'm a pupil in grade 4. I...
Five Bulgarian men were left in jail Friday on charges they were part of an organized crime group which stole credit card data from citizens of Poland and Austria. The Plovdiv District Court ruled that the five men must remain...
Posted on: Friday, 20 November 2009, 15:30 CST ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (the "Patent"), that was awarded to the Company by the European Patent Office, has been deemed invalid in Austria due to "added...
