Rapid Vienna star Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink may face legal action over a foul in a Bundesliga match earlier this week.Ex-Austrian national team midfielder Stefan Lexa suffered a ripped collateral ligament and a partly torn cruciate ligament in a tackle by the Dutchman in SV Rieds 3-1 victory over Rapid on Wednesday.Ried prosecutor Alois Ebner […]
Schopp named new Under-21s assistant coach
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Former Brescia Calcio star Markus Schopp has been appointed new assistant manager of the Austrian Under-21s national team.The 36-year-old will succeed ex-Werder Bremen midfielder Heimo Pfeifenberger as of now. Pfeifenberger said today (Fri) he had decided to resign as assistant coach of Under-21s boss Andreas Herzog to fully focus on managing second league side SV […]
Around 6,000 immigrants have opened accounts at Erste Bank in the past three years following a groundbreaking project targeting foreigners.Peter Thier, a spokesman for the institute, said today (Fri): “Our pilot project worked so well that we decided to keep and expand it.”He explained five clerks speaking Serbian, Croatian and Turkish worked in branches in […]
A famed Austrian director faces fresh pressure over a controversial film project portraying the life of a brutal killer.Robert Dornhelm is at the ready to direct “The Amanda Knox Story”, a TV movie drama about US student Amanda Knox who was jailed for 26 years in a prison in Perugia, Italy, for the brutal murder […]
Jukic quits swimming aged 24
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Mirna Jukic, Austrias best swimmer of all time, has announced her retirement at the age of 24.Jukic announced at a party held for friends, family and sports press in Vienna last night (Thurs): “It was a beautiful time, but now its over.”With tears in her eyes, she stressed making the decision “was not easy”. Rumours […]
A two-year-old boy is in hospital after being mauled by a Rottweiler on a playground in Lower Austria yesterday (Thurs).Sebastian was climbing on a rocking horse when the five-year-old dog Dino attacked, biting him on the backside.The Rottweiler which already injured a girl three years ago was crossing the playground in Ternitz with […]
Police are investigating after a man was electrocuted while working at a transformer station in Vorarlberg this morning (Fri).The 24-year-old suffered burns to his arms when he started his tasks at a 220 kilovolt line at a substation in Werben. He was hospitalised in Dornbirn.Police have said they are looking into the accident since the […]
Dad of 10 drowns cutting hedge
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A 74-year-old father of 10 drowned in a creek after he slipped and fell down an embankment cutting a hedge yesterday (Thurs).The pensioner was found by his wife who started looking for him when he failed to come in for lunch.The man was already dead when the horrified woman spotted him lying in a stream […]
Journalist representatives are outraged over an investigation by German prosecutors into Austrian reporters for citing from interrogation records.Munich juridical authorities decided to question profil writers Ulla Schmid and Michael Nikbakhsh Kurt Kuch from weekly magazine News after they revealed statements made by former Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA) decision-makers.German state prosecutors controversially regard the Austrian […]
Massive heroin haul in Salzburg
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Three people have been arrested after six kilos of heroin were found in their car.Salzburg police announced today (Thurs) officers discovered around six kilograms of the drug as well as antiques and coins of unclear origin during a traffic check on Tuesday.The discovered heroin had a street sale value of around 800,000 Euros, they said.Two […]