Lawyers for Richard Branson’s Virgin firm have forced a small Alpine spirit maker to change the name of their gin after claiming it breached copyright. Austrian Anton Vogl from Guglhof in Hallein, Austria, had patented the name of his “Vir Gin” with the Austrian patenting authorities in 2010 and started putting it on the market […]
A father who Caritas officals warned is facing death if he is extradited back to Chechenya has been forcibly sent home. Immigration officials in Austria had been urged to show leniency to the man as his pregnant wife and 10-month-old baby are being allowed to remain in the country but convictions for a fight in […]
In an ongoing battle with the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) over crowdfunding the shoe entrepeneur Heini Staudinger has said that he will not back down and he is prepared to go to prison. Staudinger believes that businesses should be independent from bank loans and freed from debt. Since 1999 he has been able to […]
The manslaughter case in Austria over the death of a British soldier drowned during a rafting accident has ended with the raft guide accused of negligence being acquitted. Private John Lomas, of the Royal Logistics Corps, was with comrades in Tirol when his inflatable raft boat capsized on June 21. Three rafts, carrying a total […]
Austrian police are hunting a sweet-toothed lorry driver who drove up to a factory at Bludenz in Vorarlberg and collected 18 tonnes of chocolate and then vanished. According to the logistics firm that charted the lorry from Chechnya the load had been collected by a lorry driver using fake paperwork to loaded 33 pallets of […]
The ice cream parlour owner who killed her husband and then her lover and buried them under concrete in a cellar has been found guilty of double murder, and jailed for life in a secure psychiatric institute. The jury at the court in Vienna took three hours to decide whether Estibaliz Carranza, 34, was really […]
Austrian prosecutors have dropped sexual harassment charges against a man who pinched the bottom of a woman he saw on the street after saying that sexual harassment can only involve a woman’s breasts or private parts. The incident happened at the start of October when the 43-year-old woman who works in a bank in the […]
The best vodka does not come from Russia – it comes from Austria according to judges at the “International Wine and Spirits Competition” which was held at the Guildhall in London recently. They judged the award-winning vodka produced by Josef Farthofer from Öhling in the Mostviertel as the prize-winning worldbeater – and it achieved top […]
Cold-blooded Estibaliz Carranza, 34, pleaded guilty to killing her husband and her boyfriend in court in Vienna, Austria, today (Monday) on the first day of the hearing. Ice cream parlour owner Carranza – dubbed the Ice Lady by local media – admitted killing the men, cutting them up into pieces and cementing them into her […]
Watching pornographic material on the Internet is now a global addiction fuelled in recent years by a large number of people looking at X-rated material online while at work. That was the claim made at a congress examining medicine and therapies for sexual issues in Salzburg by a German expert at the weekend. Berlin-based Dr […]