Nov. 27 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, the U.S. War Department authorized creation of the Army War College to instruct commissioned officers. It was built in Leavenworth, Kan. In 1924, the ...

At Vienna’s Hofburg Palace complex, ground zero of the Habsburg Empire, I’m particularly entertained by its butterfly house, a tropical wonderland on the Danube. In this community of royal butterflies ...

On one side of the Hofburg's Neue Burg wing, and entered off Josefsplatz, is the Austrian National Library. The main reason to come here is the spectacular State Hall (Prunksaal), built for Emperor ...

VIENNA — The foreign minister of Austria, Ursula Plassnik, is tall and, uh, stately. (President Bush and Austrian President Heinz Fischer shake hands with Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, ...

Moments full of emotion: Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen has invited guests of the Jewish Welcome Service from Australia, Israel, England and the USA to the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. "I am ...

Lara Vadlau, Lukas Mähr and Valentin Bontus, who won gold medals, also received the medal bonus of 20,000 euros in the form of Philharmonic gold coins. The Games in Paris had shown that in sport ...

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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, attend an inauguration ceremony at Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for an early election ...