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The New Year Concert ( Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker) of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is a concert that takes place each year in the morning of January 1 in Vienna, Austria. It is broadcast around the world to an estimated audience of one billion in 44 countries.

Persian called "Farsi" (Far-see) by the speakers, is a language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan including adjoining areas. Persian is a widely spoken language in Middle-East, parts of Central Asia and the Indo-Pak Subcontinent. Persian originated from the language of Ancient Persia around 500 years BC during the times of the Aryan rulers and the word "Iran" (like the country Iran) has been derived from the word Aryan.

As the end of the year approaches, many people start to think about making a New Years Resolution. Here are ten resolutions you might want to consider to help make next year a healthier one.

The wine regions of Austria are divided into 4 areas, called Lower Austria, Styria, Burgenland, and Vienna. Each of these regions is then further divided, for a total of 19 designated wine growing areas. To roughly get your bearings, Lower Austria encompasses the wine growing areas north and west of Vienna, with Burgenland south and east of Vienna and Styria south and west of Burgenland.

Vienna is surely one of the grandest, and at the same time most compact, capital cities in Europe. It is also one of the most fascinating. The plethora of available tourist guidebooks offers the undemanding visitor a fabulous (and effortlessly accessible) array of museums, churches, palaces and eateries, reflecting the history of the city from Roman times, via the Habsburg Empire, up to the present day. However, for those with a little more time on their hands, and for those who want to discover something of the place for themselves, this new guide has been expressly written.

While living in foreign countries, expatriates are in chronic danger of being isolated and too often feel 'disconnected’. One solution, writes Robin Pascoe, is for expats to use their time and energy to help others. Ellen Wiesenfeld is no stranger to postings in poverty-stricken countries. Her husband's UNICEF career has taken them to the capitals of Burma, the Sudan, Laos, and for the past two years, Bangladesh. Not exactly Club Med postings. But for some reason, living in Dhaka has transformed her.

Vienna is the undisputed capital of gay and lesbian life in Austria. Of Vienna's 1.7 million inhabitants, an estimated 170,000 of them are gay or lesbian; both in the past and in the present, gays and lesbians have managed to play a prominent role in public life and in the media.

For those of you choosing to fully integrate your families in the Austrian life and educate your children in German, or for the VIC Austrian, Swiss or German families, please, allow me to introduce you to a fine school (Gymnasium) in the Embassy quarter of the 4th District.  It is a private Austrian School that provides an excellent co-ed education taught in the German language within a five day school week. It is an Episcopal School with a large Catholic attendance and provides religious studies in both these disciplines, however any and all children are welcome at the school and the mix of students is international.

In 1194, Duke Leopold V of Austria and Styria, a member of the Babenberg dynasty, founded "Nova Civitas", a "new city" (now Wiener Neustadt) on the northern fringes of his Dukedom of Styria, because the existing border fortress of Pitten was no longer considered sufficient. The successors of the Babenbergers, the Habsburgs, remained closely associated with Wiener Neustadt.