Fire-fighters had to be called out to catch a horny ram which injured a rival male sheep after setting his sights on female members of his herd.The ram jumped over a fence into the neighbouring field where he started to mount the sheep after knocking out their bellwether (a castrated ram leading a sheep flock) […]
Federal Constitutional Court (VfGH) President Gerhart Holzinger has said the way immigration police acted in deporting eight-year-old twins was “sad and worrying”.NGOs were infuriated when dozens of armed WEGA police unit officers surrounded the Viennese apartment twin sisters Dorentinya and Daniela and their father Augustin Komani stayed in last week to await their deportation.The family […]
Freedom Party (FPÖ) boss Heinz-Christian Strache has accused the Social Democrats (SPÖ) of “ignoring peoples desires” after talks about a possible cooperation in the city parliament of Vienna were ended after barely an hour.Strache said today (Fri)that the SPÖs Viennese branch would continue its “politics of isolation” towards the FPÖ despite having suffered massive losses […]
High housing costs and soaring petrol prices have accelerated the Austrian inflation rate.Statistik Austria announced today (Fri) that inflation in Austria rose by 0.2 per cent to 1.9 per cent in September compared to the same month of last year.The statistics body explained high car maintenance costs and rising fuel prices as well as expensive […]
Police and political decision-makers are facing fresh pressure after the former head of the Federal High Court (OGH) claimed Kampusch case investigator Franz Kröll was “driven to suicide”.Johann Rzeszut, former OGH president and part of a special commission to investigate the polices handling of the Kampusch case filed a 46-page report to the justice ministry […]
Former German Social Democratic (SPD) Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück has criticised the Austrian Social Democrats (SPÖ) for holding back information on the 2011 budget after two provincial elections took place.The Austrian SPÖ government and the conservative Peoples Party (ÖVP) controversially announced it would wait until December to reveal possible higher or new taxes and cuts. […]
Prosecutors are investigating after it has been claimed carers tortured kids at a childrens home in Styria for years, it emerged today (Fri).Police and state prosecutors in Leoben started looking into accusations that five children, aged between five and 13 were forced to stand in the snow with bare feet for 15 minutes during the […]
Jürgen Melzer sensationally beat the world’s number tennis player yesterday (Thurs).The Lower Austrian – currently number 13 in the ATP ranking – reached the semi final of the 3.24 million US dollar tournament in Shanghai by defeating Rafael Nadal in three sets (6-1, 3-6, 6-3).This remarkable achievement comes after Melzer, who will compete in Viennas […]
Incompetent real estate planners are in trouble after having built a new housing estate without a decent access road.The only street leading to the new 50-flat complex in Ebreichsdorf, Lower Austria, is a bumpy rural road, according to infuriated future tenants.Shocked tenants discovered that the planning company had failed to get permission to build a […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Interior Minister Maria Fekter has stressed Austria will continue to deport people who have been living in the country for many years.The right-winger said today (Thurs) she had no plans to change current regulations which allow immigration police to forcefully deport people whose residence permits are rejected.Fekter called for more “acceptance” of […]