Police in Vienna are investigating after an elderly woman was knocked down by a car as she tried to cross a road. Officials said today (Thurs) the incident occurred in the district of Floridsdorf yesterday afternoon. The 66-year-old woman suffered fractures. The driver of the involved car did not stop. Witnesses of the collision carried […]
Turkish construction company Renaissance has increased its interest in Austria’s third-biggest building company. Porr AG announced today (Thurs) that its cooperation partner acquired an additional 5,700 shares. This purchase means Renaissance now holds 10.07 per cent in the Vienna-based company. Construction businessman Karl Heinz Strauss – who succeeded Wolfgang Hesoun as executive chief of Porr […]
An Upper Austrian doctor is accused of having molested a young patient. The man was arrested yesterday (Weds), local officials said today. They explained investigators became active after having received tip-offs accusing the medic of sexual abuse. Prosecutors in Wels announced that the general practitioner was accused of having produced pornographic images of children for […]
A demolition worker is fighting for his life after plunging 10 metres to the ground yesterday morning (Weds), it was reported today. The 56-year-old man was part of a group of workers assigned to tear down a building in Vienna’s Simmering district. He was airlifted to a clinic. Officials gave no information considering his state […]
Vienna International Airport (VIA or VIE) registered over six per cent more passengers last month than in May 2010, it was announced today (Weds).The aerodrome Austrias busiest airport and a key air traffic gateway to destinations in Eastern Europe (EE) counted 1.905 million customers in May 2010, up by 6.5 per cent compared […]
Toni Polster has been named new manager of an amateur football team competing in the fifth-highest league. Viennese side SC Wiener Viktoria said today (Weds) that the former goal machine will coach its senior squad next season. The club said the first training session was set to take place on 11 July. Polster most recently […]
An award-winning journalist has been granted political asylum in Austria after a four-year legal battle.Jovan Mirilo helped the International Court of Justice in The Hague in the Netherlands in investigating the Balkan War massacre in Srebrenica which occurred in 1995 by providing the institution with a video containing vital evidence in 2005. The […]
Austrian tourism officials hope some of Europes biggest clubs will draw the masses after Arsenal decided not to hold their pre-season training camp in the country for the first time in 10 years.Arsene Wenger, the French coach of the Premiership giants, was reportedly not in favour of touring Asia before the 2011/2012 season kicks off […]
A Serbian coach driver had to hand over his licence for speeding.Police in Ansfelden, Upper Austria, said today (Weds) the man was caught going too fast in a 100 kilometre per hour (kph) limit zone on the A1 motorway on Monday. They did not say how fast the coach driver went, but revealed he was […]
New figures debunk myths that businesspeople in Vienna are in midlife crises.The citys Economy Chamber (WKW) said today (Weds) that, with 21 per cent, more than one out of five people were aged 45 and older when they decided to set up their own companies last year. The organisation explained that the share of those […]