Austria Commemorates Alpine Ski Disaster
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It's an elegant but somber memorial to Austria's deadliest peacetime disaster: a stone building with 155 glass columns, one for each of the skiers and snowboarders killed when fire engulfed a crowded alpine cable car on Nov. 11, 2000.
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Unprecedented balmy temperatures at the start of Austria's winter have melted away a towering Christmas tree of ice a week after it went on display.Comment
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BEAVER CREEK - The future of the Austrian Men&#39;s Alpine Ski Team is resting on strong shoulders. Stephan Goergl, the son of Traudl Hecher, a two-time Olympic bronze medalist for Austria in women&#39;s downhill
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By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia - A champion German paraglider said Friday she did not believe she would survive when she was lifted higher than Mount Everest by a thunderstorm in eastern Australia.
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Gale-force winds dumping heavy snow wreaked havoc across Austria and Slovakia on Saturday, blowing cars into deadly collisions, knocking out power to thousands of homes and tearing off a balcony that struck a man below.
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Tributes are paid to an 11-year-old boy who was killed when he crashed into a tree while skiing in the US.
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It's outlived two world wars and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now Vienna's imperial "Sisi Palm" Â a tree named for the late Empress Elisabeth Â faces the ax.
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Austrian rescuers look for a missing snowboarder after at least three people died in avalanches.
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Austria will spend USD 65 million over three years on aid for victims of the tsunami catastrophe, government officials has announced.
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Yesterday was former Austrian downhill champion Franz Klammer's 51st birthday, and he celebrated with a prerace champagne toast with coaches and well-wishers alongside the Birds of Prey downhill course.
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The bodies of three Austrian soldiers  killed in World War One have been found frozen and almost  perfectly preserved in an Italian Alpine glacier.
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LAKE LOUISE, Alta. -- While two Americans were breaking their World Cup maidens over the last two weekends at Lake Louise and even a German snuck onto the top of the podium, the powerful Austrians were gnashing
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Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage to Austria on Friday with a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims, and an appeal to diplomats serving with the U.N. nuclear agency and other international organizations.
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Former Austrian president and UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim, who died on June 14, was buried in Vienna Saturday with political and religious leaders calling for reconciliation over his Nazi past.
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Global warming is more than just a theory to Germany's most famous winter resort, where a worrisome shortage of snow in recent decades has forced the Alpine village to reinvent itself.
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A skier died Saturday and two others were injured after being buried in an avalanche in southeastern Austria, police said.
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Six climbers were killed on Thursday after they fell several hundred metres (more than 1,000 feet) in the Swiss Alps, rescuers in central Switzerland said.