Read more about the article Rare Street Sign From Austrian Village Named F***ing Goes On Display In Museum After Being Stolen Repeatedly By Pranksters
The sign 'Fucking' placed in House of History Austria. (Lorenz Paulus, hdgo/Newsflash)
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Rare Street Sign From Austrian Village Named F***ing Goes On Display In Museum After Being Stolen Repeatedly By Pranksters

A rare street sign from the Austrian village of 'Fucking' which changed its name to Fugging because they kept being stolen is going on display at a museum in Vienna. Fucking village drew a huge amount of unwanted attention ever since it was first discovered by American soldiers across the…

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September 7, 2021
Read more about the article Scientists Prove Elephants Can Purse Lips To Squeak As Well As Trumpet With Their Trunk
Elephants from the research from the University of Vienna in Austria according to which elephants can squeak with their lips. (Gunnar Heilmann/Newsflash)
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Scientists Prove Elephants Can Purse Lips To Squeak As Well As Trumpet With Their Trunk

https://youtu.be/yx7UQLsNzMo Scientists in Austria have demonstrated that Asian elephants' sound production does not come only from their trunk but also from their lips which they purse in order to squeak. Behavioural biologist Veronika Beeck and her supervisor Angela Stoger-Horwath from the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology at the University…

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June 25, 2021
Read more about the article Painting Once Attacked With A Knife By Artist Because It Was Poor Quality Sold At Record Price At Auction In Austria
The painting by Marie Bashkirtseff that was once destroyed by the artist, on an auction of the 'Dorotheum Classic Week' in June 2021. (Dorotheum/Newsflash).
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Painting Once Attacked With A Knife By Artist Because It Was Poor Quality Sold At Record Price At Auction In Austria

A painting that was once almost destroyed by its artist after she attacked it with a knife because she considered it below standard, but then patched back together after her death, has been sold for a record price of EUR 150,000 (GBP 128,647) at an auction in Austria. The painting…

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June 15, 2021
Read more about the article Woman Wanted Activists To Stop Sterilising Cats Because She Was Using Live Kittens As Dog Food
At the scene where a woman from Carinthia, Austria's southernmost state fed the newborn kittens to her dog. (Tierschutz aktiv Karnten/Newsflash)
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Woman Wanted Activists To Stop Sterilising Cats Because She Was Using Live Kittens As Dog Food

An Austrian woman is being prosecuted after complaining about animal rights activists sterilising cats because it meant there were not enough kittens to feed her pet dog. The animal rights activists had at first thought that the woman was joking, but when she insisted that there was nothing wrong with…

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April 1, 2021
Read more about the article Waste Sent Back To Austria For Checks After Claims It Was Illegally Shipped To Malaysia
Illustrative image of a plastic waste landfill in Malaysia. (Newsflash)
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Waste Sent Back To Austria For Checks After Claims It Was Illegally Shipped To Malaysia

One hundred tonnes of plastic waste that Greenpeace said was illegally dumped in Malaysia has been shipped back to Austria for officials to investigate. The samples sent for analysis arrived in the Austrian town of Enns on 22nd February. The 28 sealed containers had 100 tonnes (220,462 lbs) of waste,…

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March 23, 2021