Alter Bridge will give two concerts in Austria this November, according to a Britishrock.cc report from today (Thurs).The online music newspaper reports that the American rock band will perform at Viennas Gasometer on 22 November before playing the Posthof in Linz five days later.No Austrian summer festival appearances of the band which is made […]
A Vienna man was given a nine-month suspended sentence after posting anti-Semitic statements on the internet.A court in the capital heard today (Weds) how the 46-year-old wrote “all Jews should be gassed as in 1938” in the discussion forum of the Kronen Zeitung newspapers website.The accused also posted “they should be put against the wall […]
Austria tops a study researching drinking habits of people in the European Union (EU).Fifteen per cent of Austrians said they would drink alcohol four to five times a week. This is a higher percentage than in any other EU member state, according to the European Commissions (EC) Eurobarometer poll.Bulgarian came second with 14 per cent […]
Aviation activity in Austria was back to normal today (Weds) after air traffic officials said there were no possible problems from volcanic ash anymore.Peter Schmidt, a spokesman for air traffic administration agency Austro Control, said the whole country was third in the European Unions (EU) new three-scale ash danger index.Schmidt explained this meant flights can […]
Activists spread out tens of thousands of sheets of paper with the names of Nazi victims in Vienna yesterday (Tues) “to teach Barbara Rosenkranz a history lesson”.”A Letter To The Stars” organiser Josef Neumayr said: “We want to show what happens when intolerance shapes society.”Activists said they felt the urge to take action after Rosenkranz […]
Four Vienna policemen are accused of racially insulting a Turkish-born Austrian Olympic athlete.Viennese taekwondo star Tuncay Caliskan who came fourth in the 2000 Olympic Games and also qualified for the event four years later claims the officers verbally abused him when he tried to report an attempted assault on him in the street.Caliskan […]
Austria lost out on around six million Euros of traffic fines as new high-tech speed traps turned out to be unusable.Motorway administration authority Asfinag set up three high-end radar traps worth 450,000 Euros on the A21 motorway and the S1 main road near Vienna last autumn. The new devices catch drivers from the front in […]
An Austrian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has been accused by a rival of making the so-called Nazi salute.Freedom Party (FPÖ) MEP Andreas Mölzer said today (Tues) independent MEP Hans-Peter Martin clicked his heels in front of his colleague Franz Obermayr in a hallway of the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg, France, before making […]
A football coach kidnapped for one day in Moscow last year has been named new youth department and scouting operations coordinator at Austrian Bundesliga side Mattersburg.Club bosses said today (Tues) Gerhard Hitzel will come in this summer. They added the 62-year-old was expected to become an “interface” between the clubs youth academy, its amateur team […]
Concerts are merged with exhibitions and culinary delicacies at the third “Schubert @ Steyr” festival.Several performances of chamber music and sacred music works by famed Austrian composer Franz Schubert are set to take place at various locations at the Upper Austrian town of Steyr until 30 April as part of the festival which started earlier […]