Upper Austrian fire truck and fire-fighting equipment producer Rosenbauer International AG (Rosenbauer) has suffered a slight setback.The companys earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) declined by 15 per cent to 6.9 million Euros from the first three months of 2010 when the firm did extraordinarily well to the same time span of this […]
Austria and Germany are enjoying an economic upturn – bouncing back following the crash in 2008 and recession of 2009.But despite the current positive economic news, companies are being warned of troubled times ahead, and the need to use the current positive situation as a chance to prepare for troubled times ahead.This was the message […]
Fire fighters had to rush to a blaze at the very moment a bridal couple walked through the guard of honour they had formed.The firemen formed a cordon outside the church in Pettenfirst, Upper Austria, for bride and groom – who is a colleague when the siren went off on Saturday.The motorised department of […]
Austrian-born Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler is still a citizen of honour of a town in Lower Austria, it has been revealed.The Amstetten Green Party branch said today (Mon) that nothing has been done in this regard, adding that an officer of the German SS military force is still honoured in the same way.The party […]
Officials at Austrias most popular football club are pressurised to be more stringent after hundreds of hooligans invaded the pitch during a crucial league match at the weekend.Around 200 Rapid Vienna supporters stormed on the green from the west stand at the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium in Vienna-Penzing yesterday afternoon (Sun) after Austria Vienna midfielder Zlatko […]
A young boy was hospitalised after being injured by the rotating blade of a lawnmower.The one-year-old child suffered serious injuries to his arms and upper body when his mum, 34, had an inattentive moment, police in Niedernsill, Salzburg, said today (Fri) about the incident in the familys back garden yesterday afternoon.Officials explained the woman was […]
The price of car tyres is set to soar in the near future, experts warned today (Fri).Business newspapers cite industry representatives and market analysts as saying that the rising price for rubber and other materials will fuel a jump in consumer prices. Experts claimed that the recovering economy and an increase in car sales will […]
An Austrian couple travelling the Indian Ocean on a self-built catamaran have revealed they were chased away from a beach by security personnel of Britains new royal couple.Martin Ernstbrunner told Vienna newspaper Heute he and his girlfriend Tracy wanted to berth the apparently deserted island when a group of men asked them to leave again.The […]
Businessmen accused of having masterminded a multimillion-Euro financial market manipulation scheme have been arrested in Austria.The Vancouver Sun newspaper reports today (Fri) that ex-stock newsletter editor Pascal Geraths and Canadian stock promoter Aly Babu Mawji were put in custody in Salzburg and Vienna respectively.German prosecutors, who are currently investigating the potentially illegal stock market activities, […]
Massive damage has been caused when a passenger ship crashed into a vessel in Lower Austria.Local shipping officials said today (Fri) the captain of the Swiss ship may have fallen asleep behind the rudder before running into a ferry near Orth an der Donau south-east of Vienna on Tuesday night. Repairs to both ships will […]