Spanish side target rebel Arnautovic

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Sports

A star-studded Spanish football team have set their sights on a wayward Austrian talent.Villareal CF are interested in snatching Marko Arnautovic, according to sport newspapers. Reports have it that the team – who finished last season in fourth place – are ready to pay more for the 22-year-old than his current club Werder Bremen forked […]

Fritzl town’s Hitler honour annulment finds followers

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Politics

Amstetten’s decision to strip Adolf Hitler of his honorary citizenship has triggered a certain sense of nervousness among politicians across the country.The Lower Austrian town – which gained unwanted fame for being the location of the ‘Fritzl incest horror house’ – revoked the honour earlier this week, 66 years after the Austrian-born Nazi dictator’s suicide. […]

Bardem on his ‘No Country for Old Men’ fears

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Culture

Javier Bardem has revealed he did not feel up to the role in “No Country for Old Men” that got him a slew of awards including an Oscar.The Spanish actor told Austrian showbiz news mag Live today (Fri): “When the Coens (directors Joel and Ethan Coen) called and described the role (of ruthless hitman Anton […]

Wasp sting kills worker

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General News

A worker collapsed and died after being stung by a wasp, it has emerged.The 43-year-old from Perg told colleagues what happened before he passed out in front of them at his company in Wartberg ob der Aist near Freistadt, Upper Austria, yesterday (Thurs). The co-workers failed to resuscitate him.A doctor said today the man died […]

Austria among safest states in the world

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Lifestyle

Austria has retained its reputation for being one of the most secure places on earth despite being knocked down two spots in the United Nations’ (UN) Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011.The UN announced yesterday (Thurs) it considered Austria as the sixth-safest country in the world.The organisation investigated 153 nations on all continents about factors such […]

Suspended jail sentence for slingshot spree

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General News

A German has been convicted for firing at houses in Vienna-Hietzing with a slingshot.The 51-year-old was arrested after staff at a doctor’s practice informed police that the man was damaging the building’s facade last September.The weapon he was using was identified as a high-precision slingshot which has to be registered by owners in Austria. The […]

Czech pipeline assignment for Alpine

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Business

Salzburg-based Alpine Bau GmbH (Alpine) has teamed up with a Belgium company to build a gas pipeline in the Czech Republic.The firm said today (Fri) the joint venture with Denys had a value of 76.7 million Euros. Czech state-owned gas provider Net4Gas assigned the firms to construct two pipelines of an overall length of 105.8 […]

Biker lands in sewage pool

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General News

A 28-year-old motorcyclist ended up in a wastewater tank after crashing into a truck.The man from Kirchberg-Thening steered into the Czech lorry when the vehicle took a bend the moment he wanted to overtake it in Hörsching near Linz, Upper Austria, yesterday evening (Thurs).The biker was hurled into the air before landing in a roadside […]

Mowing blade kills farmer

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General News

A farmer has bled to death after a work accident, police said today (Fri).The 59-year-old woman, who lived on her own, got under her tractor’s mowing device when the vehicle rolled backwards after she parked it. Investigators in Brunnenthal, Upper Austria, assume that the incident occurred in the early morning yesterday.She was found lying in […]

Power cut affects 1,800 Viennese homes

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General News

Hundreds of households in Vienna were left without electricity for several hours yesterday morning (Thurs).Shortly after the power outage kicked off, energy provider Wien Energie said the reason was unclear and a matter for investigation.Around 1,800 homes, offices and shops in Vienna-Währing were affected by the disruption.