By Rebecca Musgrave Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, will open a new rat house on Sunday. A variety of the creatures will be on display at the zoo, hoping to improve their image as merely pests and unhygienic rodents. Visitors will be able to meet Rolf Rüdiger, the most famous rat in Austria and organiser […]
Rebecca Musgrave Lower Austria is preparing to implement a new Winter Card which will make skiing in the area all the more appealing. The transferable lift pass can be used in seven ski areas in Lower Austria for three or five days and carries the motto “Skiing – when I want, wherever I want”. The […]
Rebecca Musgrave Wine-makers were more than satisfied after the first drinking of the new harvest in Deutschkreutz, in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland province, yesterday evening (Thurs). After a long, warm summer growers expected not only a high quality vintage but hope that the harvest of over 715,000 hectolitres in Burgenland will make up […]
Salzburg Juvenile Court Judge, Peter H. appeared in court himself yesterday for possession of child pornography. The 47-year-old has been sentenced to five months behind bars and a 2,250 Euro fine. Whilst his career as a magistrate is over he will still keep his new position in the Department of Justice. The criminal would only […]
A 17-year-old boy has been caught after selling 17,000 Euros worth of electrical equipment that he acquired after forging contracts and identification in Salzburg. For more than a month beginning in April of this year, the boy completed contracts with different mobile network operators in Salzburg under a false name. Through these contracts he received […]
Seven people have been injured in a fire in Hainburg, Austria, yesterday (Thurs) evening. The blaze began on the first floor of an apartment block, the reasons for which are not yet clear. More than 50 fire fighters came to put out the flames coming from a first floor apartment with support from 20 paramedics, […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Not a good night for Austrian football. After seven months of home wins, Salzburg suffered a 0:1 defeat last night (Thurs) to Athletic Bilbao in the Europa League. Despite being 0:2 down in the first half, FK Austria Wien managed to salvage one point in a 2:2 draw against AZ Alkmaar with […]
By Rebecca Musgrave A valuable artwork has turned up in the Vienna Dorotheum, Austria, almost 10 years after it was stolen. The porcelain relief of Tsar Peter the Great, which was taken from the Ostankino Estate Museum in Moscow, Russia, arrived in the auction house from an unknown seller in France ready to be sold. […]
The Slalom World Cup, scheduled for next week in Finland, has been cancelled. Lack of snow and unusually warm weather has left the International Ski Federation (IFS) with no choice but to cancel the races due to take place at the ski resort of Levi. Director of the Austrian Men’s ski team, Mathias Berthold, said; […]
Parts of Austria are expected to reach temperatures of almost 20 degrees tomorrow (Fri). In the regions of Upper and Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia there will be some fog and low cloud in the morning but this is predicted to clear, seeing sun in the afternoon. Winds will be low and with temperatures […]