A praline placed at the front door of a mayors house was not poisoned, examinations have shown.Peoples Party (ÖVP) Rüstorf Mayor Pauline Sterrer informed police after discovering the chocolate delicacy earlier this month. Sterrer started getting threatening letters around two years ago, and the discovery of the praline triggered memories of the fate of a […]
Scharner gets Austria call-up
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Paul Scharner has been given the chance of a comeback for the Austrian national team.The midfielder who joined English Premiership side West Bromwich Albion (WBA) after five seasons at Wigan Athletic earlier this year has received a call-up by Austrian boss Dietmar Constantini for the upcoming Euro2012 qualifiers against Azerbaijan in Vienna on […]
Outgoing Magna co-chief Siegfried Wolf has rubbished claims that his departure will have a negative effect on the car parts makers factory in Austria.Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska said earlier this month Wolf was set to head the automotive division of his company Russian Machines.The announcement came just weeks after Frank Stronach accepted a multi-million payout […]
Serbia upset as TA eyes Kosovan firm
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Telekom Austria (TA) confirmed today (Tues) it was interested in snatching a stake in a Kosovan telecommunication firm.A spokesman for TA, which leads the Austrian mobile services market, announced the company was one of five firms which have informed the Kovovan government of their interest in the 75 per cent share of state-owned PTK on […]
Temple attacker gets life
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A 35-year-old Sikh was sentenced to life behind bars yesterday (Mon) for killing a guru of the Ravidas movement in a temple in Vienna last year.Prosecutor Stefan Apostol explained at the Criminal Court of Vienna that Jaspal Singh fired seven shots from close range at gurus Sant Niranjan Dass and Sant Rama Nand at a […]
Virus claims more than 100 bunnies
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Dozens of rabbits have died within weeks in a Lower Austrian town, it has emerged.Holger Herbrüggen, a vet responsible for the provinces Wien-Umgebung district, announced today (Tues) that more than 100 could have passed away in Klosterneuburg during the past few weeks as the town is struck by myxomatosis.The expert stressed it was impossible to […]
Fewer than one in five Austrians think of ethnic minorities as a group in need of protection.Magazine profil reports today (Mon) only 18 per cent of Austrians thought ethnic minorities deserved more protection. The poll conducted by Viennese research agency Karmasin also showed that two in 10 Austrians said the same about migrants […]
Badly Drawn Boy Vienna date revealed
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Badly Drawn Boy will perform in Vienna later this year, it has been announced.Britishrock.cc reports today (Mon) that the Mercury Prize-awarded singer-songwriter will give a concert at the citys WUK on 16 November.The Bolton-based artist, whose real name is Damon Gough, won critical acclaim with his 2000 studio album “The Hour of Bewilderbeast”. The follow-up […]
An Upper Austrian pensioner was trapped in her bathtub for four days, it has emerged.Police in Schärding said today (Mon) Maria Rauscher, 78, was freed when her daughter came to visit her on Saturday.The woman, who lives on her own, told her horrified daughter she could not get up after taking a bath on Wednesday.”I […]
Political decision-makers are at odds over what conclusions to draw from economic predictions made today (Fri).The Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) and the Institute for Higher Studies (IHS) announced they expected the Austrian economy to recover quicker from the credit crunch than initially predicted.IHS said the countrys gross domestic product (GDP) will rise by 1.8 […]