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For a film director who demands quite so much of his audience, and even more uncompromisingly of himself, it has taken the Austrian director Michael Haneke a long time (20 years to be precise) to gain the Palme d'Or at Cannes,...
‘I’m a control freak,’ says Michael Haneke, the current holder of the Palme d’Or. The Cannes prize-winning director is talking in a London hotel room, wearing a black shirt and trousers, German words spouting through his Santa...
Fracas aside, Michael Harden is reminded of how good we have it in this city. Hysteria about something that has always been a dark part of Melbourne life (King Street anyone?) can also mask how great - and mostly trouble-free -...
Chechens in Austria – did they escape the conflict? Maybe because the republic of Chechnya is a place where two major armed conflicts including vast human rights violations took place in the nineties. As I am a social...
Four hundred years ago this year, two events marked what scientists and historians today regard as the birth of modern astronomy. The first of them, the beginning of Galileo's telescopic observations , has been immortalized by...
It's interesting how they do catch up ... eventually. The Daily Mail is running a piece headed: "Whatever happened to global warming? Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday,...
From ANI Washington, July 2: Researchers from across Europe have united to build the largest quantum key distribution (QKD) network ever built. The efforts of 41 research and industrial organisations were realised as secure,...
Background and Purpose— The optimal management of blood pressure (BP) in acute stroke remains unclear. For ischemic stroke treated with intravenous thrombolysis, current guidelines suggest pharmacological intervention if...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 VIENNA — More than 3,000 firefighters and soldiers are working to contain flood waters in northern Austria after two days of heavy rain. The Steyr, Enns, Krems and Traun rivers have overflown their...
