Goldene Wien-Plakette für Johannes Heesters Wien (APA) – Der Erste Präsident des Wiener Landtags, Prof. Harry Kopietz, übergab am Freitag Nachmittag im Wiener Rathaus in Anwesenheit der Wiener Umweltstadträtin Ulli Sima und zahlreichen hochrangigen Gästen aus dem Kulturleben dem beliebten Schauspieler, Sänger und Wien-Liebhaber Johannes Heesters die Goldene Wien-Plakette. Heesters sagte beim Eintreffen in den [...]
Call-girl Patrizia writes in her new book about meetings with Berlusconi “I was told my fee would be €1,000. I replied that my price was twice higher. The man smiled and said “Don’t worry, we’re going to see the Prime Minister. He is very generous man.” She is driven from a Rome hotel to the [...]
RFE/RL – As the swine-flu virus continues to spread through former Soviet Union, the measures taken by some governments range from bizarre and befuddled to possibly political. Moldova In Moldova, which has 269 confirmed cases and four reported swine-flu deaths, health officials on November 9 closed schools and universities for a week. The timing of [...]
WIEN – Rund 8.000 Demonstranten beim Urban-Loritz-Platz am Gürtel Tausende Studenten haben am Donnerstag in ganz Österreich für die Verbesserung der Studienbedingungen protestiert. In Wien versammelten sich rund 8.000 Demonstranten am Urban-Loritz-Platz bei der Stadthalle. Auch an anderen Uni-Standorten gingen Hunderte auf die Straße. Das in Wien befürchtete Verkehrschaos blieb aus. Reportage about student’s strike [...]
Russia president Dmitri Medvedev told that the government must do something about the country’s status as a world leader in alcohol consumption The Kremlin has already tried to eliminate one vice this year – casino gambling, which was banned in July. But drinking — vodka in particular — is another thing. It is a mainstay [...]
The soft toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. From The Washington Post Photo by Galina Toktalieva Old trees cut down for the briefest and most undignified of ends. It’s a menace, environmental groups say. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe [...]