Thomas Burrows, with the Daily Mail, reports:

The highest court in Austria has said a resident cannot smoke on his balcony or with the windows open during set hours as it is disturbing his neighbor’s sleep ... 

A university professor, living in the Austrian capital, had filed the case after complaining about the smell coming from the flat below.

The court heard how the resident below enjoyed a cigar on his balcony during the summer, typically between midnight and 2am.

In the winter, he tended to smoke with the windows open in his apartment.

... The country's highest court said the resident cannot smoke outside or with the windows open between 10pm and 6am.

In the summer, he is also prohibited from smoking during 'eating times' - between 8am and 10am, midday and 3pm, and 6pm and 8pm.

The decision could have far-reaching effects on the country. 

FOX NEWS provides the following report:

Zimbabwe's controversial president Robert Mugabe was awarded China's alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday for what the prize committee called his inspired national leadership and service to pan-Africanism.

The 91-year-old Mugabe is the latest in a series of critics of the West who have received the Confucius Peace Prize.

Under his rule, the government pushed a plan to acquire large parcels of land, many from white owners, to give to black farmers. When owners challenged the move in 2002, Mugabe reportedly called them "greedy, greedy colonials."

After fighting in a guerrilla war in the 1970s, Mugabe was elected president in 1980. He has been in power for 35 years with no clear successor.

Critics say he cracked down on opposition groups, sending many of their leaders to jail.

The prize committee defended its decision, saying Mugabe has "overcome difficulties of all kinds and has strongly committed himself to constructing his nation's political and economic order, while strongly supporting pan-Africanism and African independence."

The Confucius Peace Prize was first awarded in 2010, an angry response from Beijing over the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Other recipients include former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Russian President Vladimir Putin. None has traveled to claim the prize in person.

On January 27th, 2015, Auschwitz commemorated the 70th anniversary of its liberation by Allied Forces. In attendance was 49 yr old Rainer Hoess.

His name sends chills down the spines of Holocaust survivors. He is the grandson of one of history’s most notorious villains—Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Nazi’s infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was responsible for the murder of some 1.1 million Jews.

As a child, Rainer was largely shielded from his grandfather’s gruesome legacy, until he found a copy of his autobiography and read of the horrors perpetrated under his command. Rainer has now spent the past several decades trying to build a new legacy for the Hoess family name.

Rainer speaks regularly at schools and events, both public and private, decrying the evils of anti-Semitism and educating the public on the Holocaust and issues of human rights. In an effort to identify with his grandfather’s victims, he has tattooed the Star of David and the prisoner numbers of several Auschwitz survivors on his arms. He has personally sought out and requested audience with as many survivors as have been willing to meet with him, to express his support for them and his commitment to keep the memory of the Holocaust and its victims alive.

It was in that context that he sought out a meeting with Eva Mozes Kor, an Auschwitz survivor who lost her parents, two of her sisters, her grandparents, and several aunts and uncles at the hands of Rainer's grandfather. She and her twin sister, just ten years old at the time of their capture, were among only 200 sets of twins out of 1500 who survived the vicious “medical” experiments of the infamous “Angel of Death,” Dr. Josef Mengele.

Rainer had heard that Kor had long been advocating forgiveness and reconciliation. In fact, twenty years prior, at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Kor was reported to have have written a letter stating, "I had the power to forgive. No one could give me the power, or take it away from me. I refused to be a victim, and now I am free."

She began corresponding with the younger Hoess and eventually agreed to meet him at Auschwitz.

They shared a common desire to educate people of the evils of the past and to help them forge a new future, sowing seeds of hope from despair. Through their interactions and meetings, they became friends, with Hoess even asking her to become his “adoptive” grandmother. Kor was only too happy to comply, joking with her own children that since they hadn’t given her any biological grandchildren of her own, she was “forced … to adopt the grandson of a Nazi."