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Before banks, nuns lent money: how convents helped power medieval Vienna’s economy

Retirement planning might seem like a thoroughly modern concern, with pensions, investments and annuities forming part of today’s financial toolkit. But these financial tools are much older than they appear. In the later Middle Ages, people were already exchanging lump sums for steady income streams – and, in cities like…

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The Flaming Lips axe show as frontman Wayne Coyne battles pneumonia

Wayne Coyne was admitted to hospital with pneumonia, forcing The Flaming Lips to cancel their Vienna concert.

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South Africa is short of 2.6 million homes: Vienna’s approach to social housing offers useful lessons

South Africa faces a housing backlog of at least 2.6 million units, for more than 12 million people. The state supply of new, subsidised housing has declined over the past decade and the government’s housing policy is shifting.

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vivo Robotics Team Wins ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge Reasoning to Action Track

SHENZHEN, China, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- vivo is proud to announce that the company's PrismBot robotics team won the Reasoning to Action Track at the ICRA 2026 AGIBOT World Challenge, held recently in Vienna as part of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, a leading international robotics…

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10 of the most exciting hi-fi products we saw at High End Vienna 2026

Giant speakers, tiny DACs, all-in-one wonders, and anniversary editions

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7 of the quirkiest, coolest and most expensive things we saw at High End Vienna 2026

Vienna gets weird and wonderful

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Forget vinyl, Ruark's new CD system proves Compact Discs are in vogue

"Looking back to move forward": How Ruark's R710 system redefines relevance

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Milo Rau turned tribunals into theatre. Now his own moral judgment is on trial

The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to tech billionaire Peter Thiel caused a scandal in Vienna, is Rau’s method eating itself?

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4 elite headphones I tried at High End Vienna — including a pair with Wi-Fi and Meze's most expensive set ever

Of all the amazing headphones I tried at High End Vienna, these 4 really stood out.

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The 11 best headphones, speakers, soundbars, and streamers we saw at the High End Vienna 2026 hi-fi show

From one of the best speakers in the world becoming even better, to a TV sound system that has genuine audiophile skills, to wireless speakers that look like alien invaders

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UN nuclear watchdog raises 'proliferation' fears over Iran sites

VIENNA - The UN nuclear agency reaffirmed in a confidential report seen by AFP on Thursday that a lack of access to Iran's nuclear material posed a "proliferation concern" and called on Teheran to act "constructively".

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Ruark’s gorgeous streaming amplifier blends “analogue charm with digital convenience” and features an integrated CD player

The powerful R710 makes its debut at High End Vienna 2026

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Revealed: The most beautiful restaurants in Europe for 2026

The Prix Versailles architecture and design awards have revealed the World’s Most Beautiful Restaurants for 2026. Five European venues made the prestigious list, celebrating restaurants where striking interiors are every bit as memorable as the food.

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Chord Electronics teases two new power amplifiers at High End Vienna 2026, set to launch in September

The Ultima 7 power amp is designed to match the excellent Pre 6 preamp

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Valie Export obituary

Austrian artist who used performance, photography and sculpture to challenge the representation of women

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Clearaudio just unveiled a stunning Rammstein turntable and truly, ich will!

Clearaudio has unveiled a whopping seven new products at High End Vienna, but top of the pile has got to be this limited edition Rammstein turntable

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Battleground Vienna: Austrian intelligence officer convicted of spying for Russia belongs to a long tradition

Egisto Ott is no James Bond. But the stories the 63-year-old Austrian told a Viennese jury recently would make good plotlines. Ott worked as an intelligence officer in Austria’s now-defunct Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism. He was also moonlighting for the Russians.

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Astell & Kern’s valve-toting portable player blends classic analogue tech with “cutting-edge digital audio”

The SP4000T portable player and Clarus in-ears debut at High End Vienna

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Euronews

Two former Syrian officials accused of torture during al-Assad era go on trial in Austria

Austrian law provides for the jurisdiction of local courts over certain offences committed abroad and the Vienna court has jurisdiction in this case because the defendants reside there.

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High End Vienna 2026: all the news and highlights from Europe's biggest hi-fi show

We're into day two of the festival of high-end hi-fi.

TechRadar

‘Most likely, you won’t see it on a Leica M camera’: Leica hints that generative AI tools like Gemini Omni are at odds with its photography heritage, but says they ‘make perfect sense’ for phones like the Xiaomi 17T Pro

At a roundtable attended by TechRadar, Leica shared its thoughts on the relationship between photography and generative AI.

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Taylor Swift Vienna concert plot suspect sentenced to 15 years in prison

An Austrian court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old man who admitted plotting a foiled jihadist attack on a Taylor Swift concert to 15 years in prison.

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Convicted Taylor Swift Concert Plotter Apologises For Planned Attack, Calls It The 'Biggest Mistake of His Life'

An Austrian man was sentenced to 15 years for plotting a jihadist attack on Taylor Swift's Vienna concert, highlighting ongoing concerns about online radicalisation and public event security.

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Man jailed for 15 years over Taylor Swift concert bomb plot

The 21-year-old Austrian man was found guilty of planning to use homemade explosives to kill people at one of the singer's shows in Vienna in August 2024

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Austrian who planned attack on Swift concert jailed

An Austrian man has been convicted of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna and been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

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