A pedestrian hit by a car was found being looked after by his wife following an accident in Upper Austria this morning (Mon).The 48-year-old man was thrown against a car windscreen when the driver failed to spot him and ploughed straight into the man as he was walking his dog Marchtrenk in the early morning […]
Strabag shops mall order in Sweden
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Austrian construction top dog Strabag SE has been contracted to expand and renovate a shopping centre in Sweden.The Vienna-headquartered company announced today (Fri) it will enlarge the Täby Centrum in Stockholm from its current 50,000 square metres to an overall 80,000 square metres. Strabag added the size of the malls car park will be upped […]
Austrian jobless rate still lowest in EU
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Austria has retained its title of being the European Unions (EU) jobless rate model pupil.The European Commissions (EC) statistics body Eurostat found that Austria still had the lowest unemployment rate among the EU-27 with 4.3 per cent, followed by the Netherlands where 4.5 per cent of residents were out of work in August.The agency also […]
An Austrian tax evasion whistleblower has been found dead in his prison cell, a local newspaper has claimed.Kronen Zeitung revealed today (Fri) the Tyrolean passed away in his cell in a jail in Winterthur, Switzerland.The Vienna daily claimed Swiss authorities have refused to give out any further information on the incident. It also reports that […]
Vienna police chief Karl Mahrer’s streak of bad luck continues as he was bitten by an award-winning dog last night (Thurs).Mahrer decorated German shepherd Verdi with a special medal for sniffing out a stolen suitcase containing 183,000 Euros earlier this year.But as soon as he was led to the podium by police woman Sabine Empacher, […]
Mountain authorities in Carinthia confiscated more than 300 kilograms of illegally collected mushrooms this summer, it has emerged.The local Alpine administration body said today (Fri) officials seized 350 kilograms of mushrooms from people who breached regulations.Provincial rules have it that people must not pick more than two kilos of mushrooms a day per capita during […]
Pensioner burned by liquid bitumen
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A Styrian pensioner is in critical condition after he accidentally showered himself with hot bitumen yesterday (Thurs).The 77-year-old Soboth resident was preparing the bitumen to paint his garage with before he slipped carrying a can with three litres of the substance.Doctors at the LKH hospital in Graz said the DIY enthusiast suffered serious burns to […]
Escaped cows take a dip
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Three runaway cows went for a splash at a public pool in Tyrol this morning (Fri).The animals, two mother cows and one calf, grazed at the local pool after escaping their fenced meadow at a farm in Oberau and jumped into the water-filled pool when 30 fire-fighters tried to catch them.All three heifers were […]
Organisers of an exhibition on late right-wing politician Jörg Haider have claimed “campaigning media” were to blame for the exhibit being a massive flop.Fewer than 11,000 people attended the exhibit in the Bergbaumuseum (Mining Museum) in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, since it opened in October 2009. Organisers and local politicians hoped it would draw 70,000.Curator Gerhard Finding […]
Drunk teen survives hit by train
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A young Upper Austrian survived after a train ploughed into him last night (Thurs/Fri).The 18-year-old from Kaltenberg was staggering along the railroad track when the express train approached. Its driver slammed the brakes on when he spotted the drunk in his headlights, but still slammed into him.The young man was hospitalised with a fractured skull […]