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The posters around Vienna’s neo-Gothic town hall set tongues wagging:
In place of the traditional “Construction Work Ahead” symbol showing
a man in pants and helmet, they depicted a ponytailed woman wearing
rugged-looking boots and a skirt, and hefting a shovel.
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The abduction and eight-year captivity of Natascha Kampusch is the
story of a nightmare that finally ended – and a willpower that continues.
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Natascha Kampusch is a sad, withdrawn-looking young woman, a lifetime
apart from the ruddy-cheeked 10-year-old she was when she disappeared
eight years ago.
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Hubertus Czernin, an Austrian journalist who was a key figure in
efforts to return five multimillion-dollar paintings looted by Nazis
in World War
II to their rightful owner in Los Angeles, has died.
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Year after year, undaunted by winter ice or the weak sun of Central
Europe’s spring, elderly Viennese have flocked to the water park on
the Danube with bags of stale bread crumbs.
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Austria officially finished paying out nearly $350 million Monday in
restitution to former slave and forced laborers who were compelled to
work in the country during World War
II when it was controlled by
Nazi Germany.
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The United Nations’ nuclear agency urged Iran on Thursday to
reinstate its suspension of nuclear fuel processing and ordered a
comprehensive report on Tehran’s adherence to key aspects of the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
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