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Vienna Freedom Festival returns with music, hot air balloons, rodeo
(File photo) The 2025 Vienna Freedom Festival will be held Friday and Saturday, with the event being consolidated to one location this year at Spencer’s Landing. VIENNA — The Vienna Freedom Festival will feature music, food and other attractions...

Austria coach Rangnick takes fresh aim at Man Utd transfer policy: A leadership problem
Austria coach Ralf Rangnick has taken fresh aim at former club Manchester United. Rangnick had six months in charge of United during the 2021/22 season. Advertisement Advertisement He told Sport: "Since I left, they have spent £700, £800 million...

Urgent Blood Donation Events Scheduled Across Salzburg, Austria
LEOBEN, Austria — As summer temperatures rise, the demand for blood donations remains critical in Austria. Currently, around 1,000 blood donations are needed each day, and artificial blood production remains impossible. Local officials stress the...

F1 Fantasy: McLaren dominate, Sauber surprise in Austria
McLaren duo Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris dominated the Austrian Grand Prix and their supporters were rewarded with a bucketload of points in this week’s F1 Fantasy league. Piastri and Norris (just about) managed to not take each other out as...

Confidence in Austria's Judiciary Remains High, But Challenges Remain
According to recent reports from the EU Justice Scoreboard, around 90 percent of people in this country have a “very good” or “fairly good” impression of the independence of courts and judges, as shown in this year's Justice Scoreboard published...

IP Österreich rebrands as RTL AdAlliance in Austria
Austria’s advertising sales house IP Österreich has officially completed its integration into RTL AdAlliance, adopting the RTL corporate identity and operating henceforth under the international RTL AdAlliance brand. The move unifies international...

From Vienna to Queens: Karl Lueger, Zohran Mamdani, and the Politics of Polite Antisemitism
Before Adolf Hitler ever raised his voice in Munich, he walked the streets of Vienna. The year was 1908. He was a failed artist, a nobody—but he was watching. And what he saw was a master class in antisemitism, taught by none other than the city’s...

Lightning strikes spark house fires in Virginia and Maryland
Four townhomes were impacted and one firefighter was taken to an area hospital to get stitches after cutting their hand. VIENNA, Va. — Lightning strikes reportedly sparked fires in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday afternoon. According to Fairfax...

Understanding Piastri’s cutting Alpine message delivered in Austria
It was a simple radio message, missed by the television broadcast – probably deliberately – but one loaded with meaning. After he’d been shoved off the road while trying to lap Franco Colapinto during the Austrian Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri...

Air India suspends two pilots on Delhi-Vienna Boeing flight after take-off incident
NEW DELHI: Within two days of the horrific Ahmedabad plane crash, there was another near mishap of an Air India flight during take-off from Delhi to Vienna in bad weather. The First Captain and co-pilot managed to land the Boeing -777 safely at...

Step back in time and embark upon and exhilarating journey through ancient Egypt
After hugely successful runs in Madrid, Hamburg, Cairo, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Vienna, Malmo and London, the 2500 square metre exhibition invites visitors to step back in time and embark upon and exhilarating journey through ancient Egypt to...

India News | Air India Delhi-Vienna Flight Drops 900 Feet Mid-air, Investigation Underway
New Delhi [India], July 1(ANI): An Air India flight en route to Vienna from Delhi experienced a serious mid-air incident on June 14, during which the aircraft suddenly lost altitude by nearly 900 feet, prompting an investigation by the Directorate...

DGCA launches probe as Vienna-bound Air India flight from Delhi dropped 900 feet 2 days after AI 171 crash: Report
A Vienna-bound Air India flight, which took off from the Delhi airport on June 14, dropped 900 feet mid-air, according to fresh revelation, according to a report. The flight, AI 187, departed from Indira Gandhi International Airport at 2.56 am on...

Air India Flight from Delhi to Vienna Experiences Sudden Altitude Drop; Pilots S...
An Air India Boeing 777 flight traveling from Delhi to Vienna experienced a sudden loss of nearly 900 feet shortly after takeoff, according to a report by The Times of India. The incident occurred just days after the tragic crash of Air India...

How Norris dominated Austria... and what it means for his title showdown with Piastri
There couldn’t have been a more important moment than the Austrian Grand Prix for Lando Norris to revitalise his championship campaign. It’s not that he’d slipped too many points behind leader Oscar Piastri, whose advantage was sliced from 22...

Bayern Munich’s Paul Wanner still undecided on Germany vs. Austria
Bayern Munich attacker Paul Wanner still has not made his decision regarding the national team — Germany or Austria. ”It has to come from the heart. The decision hasn’t been made yet. It has to be the perfect moment where I stand behind it 100%....
Air India Grounds Pilots After Delhi-Vienna Flight Dropped 900 Feet Soon After Take-Off
Air India has grounded two of its pilots after a Vienna-bound flight plunged nearly 900 feet mid-air shortly after takeoff from Delhi airport. This incident occurred just a couple of days after the fatal Ahmedabad crash involving the airline's...

IP Österreich becomes RTL AdAlliance in Austria
The integration of IP Österreich into RTL AdAlliance is now complete. Austria’s multichannel advertising sales house will now operate entirely under the unified brand identity of RTL AdAlliance, the international sales house of RTL Group –...

Air India Flight To Vienna Faces 'Don't Sink' Warnings Days After Crash
Only 38 hours after the deadly Air India flight AI 171 crash at Ahmedabad, which had killed more than 260 people on June 12, another Air India long-range flight, AI 187 to Vienna, suffered a serious in-flight incident. The Boeing 777 allegedly...

Delhi-Vienna Air India Flight Nosedives To 900 Feet Mid-Air; Pilots Grounded As DGCA Launches Probe
A mid-air crisis, critical in nature, occurred when an Air India Vienna-bound flight (AI-187) lost its altitude by about 900 feet after a brief period after departing from Delhi on June 14, triggering immediate safety concerns and a probe by...