Ajax produced a superb win over Barcelona to keep alive their hopes of qualifying from Champions League Group H.

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Syria’s devastating conflict entered its third year with no agreement among EU leaders on British and French calls for an easing of the bloc’s embargo to allow arms supplies to the rebels.

A Vienna bus driver who found a bag with €390,000 in cash inside handed the money over to police, who tracked down the elderly woman who had inexplicably left her fortune behind.

BIRDS are great travellers.

Rudi Weinhofer has told Celtic it is time to move on from their infamous encounter with Rapid Vienna 25 years ago as both clubs prepare to meet again in the Europa League next week.

Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill is optimistic Manchester City skipper Richard Dunne will complete a £6m move within the next 24 hours.

ASTON VILLA’S hopes of reaching the group stages of the Europa League were ended by a late goal from Rapid Vienna striker Nikica Jelavic in the second leg of the qualifier at Villa Park last night.

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Liverpool slumped to a 1-0 defeat against Rapid Vienna in their latest pre-season friendly in Austria tonight.

Maybe it’s just because, in some irrational way, the Holocaust just feels worse than the Cultural Revolution or Stalin’s purges.

Austria's foreign minister today congratulated South Korean Ban Ki-moon on his appointment as the next UN Secretary-General and invited him to make a return visit to the alpine country where he once served as his country's ambassador.

Austria Vienna manager Frenk Schinkels has conceded defeat in his bid to keep defender Sasa Papac from moving to Rangers.

Rangers target Filip Sebo has arranged to meet his club’s billionaire owner today in a desperate attempt to win a move to Ibrox.

Right-wing British historian David Irving, who was convicted by an Austrian court of denying the Holocaust, has been barred from speaking with the press, a court spokeswoman said today.

BARCELONA striker Samuel Eto’o scored a stunning hat-trick in a 5-0 Nou Camp demolition of Panathinaikos that put the Catalans on the brink of qualifying for the last 16 of the Champions League last night.

Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel says he’s “proud” of the tough position Austria staked out in crisis talks on the launch of negotiations with Turkey to join the European Union.

The European Union overcame last-minute doubts and opened membership talks today with Turkey – a historic move to include a predominantly Muslim nation that both sides said would benefit all of Europe.

Austria refused to drop its objections to Turkey’s bid to become the first predominantly Muslim nation to be a full member of the European Union, forcing EU foreign ministers to suspend crisis talks and resume them later this morning.

EU ambassadors meet today in an effort to overcome differences that threaten to derail the start of Turkey’s formal EU membership negotiations – with opposition from Austria appearing to be the biggest obstacle.

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International experts will help investigate whether a Ukrainian presidential candidate was poisoned by toxins normally found in biological weapons, Austrian doctors treating him said tonight.

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Neptune have lost again this time to Shamrock Rovers who were playing their last home game of the season.

Today's basketball results.

Gleneagle Lakers recorded their first Cup victory in seven years, putting in a huge performance to defeat Shamrock Rovers 103-77 and booking their place in the quarter-finals round.

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A senior Nationalist MP today claimed the main rivals to Scotland and Ireland’s bid to host the European Football Championships in 2008 had been dealt “a major blow” after rioting by Austrian soccer fans.