Pay TV Sky Sport Austria is not entitled to payments from the ORF when the state TV uses its soccer coverage as clips in news reports, an expert report to Europe’s highest court says. The case is being widely watched across the world, where offshoots of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp have bought up live rights […]
A debate about the use of forest cameras has erupted after an unnamed Austrian politician was caught on camera having sex in a forest by a camera fixed up to monitor local wildlife. Luckily for the politician his blushes have been spared as the pictures have not been released in the Austrian province of Carinthia. […]
Torrential rain has caused extensive damage in parts of the country with the regions of Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Salzburg reportedly the most seriously affected. Over the weekend many communities were still clearing up the wreckage caused after large volumes of water wash through streets and gardens. Local fire services tackled much of the […]
Austrian police were called after a group of 20 young men all with an immigrant background and armed with sticks laid siege to an abandoned factory in Salzburg where a group of Gypsy beggars had taken up residence. Police have not yet commented on the reason for the altercation but have confirmed that in general […]
Austrian prosecutors have filed charges against the world’s leading expert on Stradivari who lived in a castle and had a fleet of luxury cars including two Rolls-Royces with what is believed to be the world’s biggest ever musical fraud. The reputation of 62-year-old Dietmar Machold was so well regarded that he was allowed to value […]
An Austrian hotel has fixed this yacht by artist Erwin Wurm to the roof of ithe building with the front melting so that it points down to the front entrance. Hotel Daniel management in the Austrian capital Vienna refused to say how much they spent for the project which had to get special permission to […]
Judges ordered bungling police to drop a trout poaching case in Kufstein, Austria, after hearing that the defendant had been allowed to eat the only evidence. Dad Alexander Donninger, 42, had hooked a deep frozen trout he’d bought from a supermarket on a fishing rod and dangled it in a river so his seven-tear-old twins […]
Electricity provider Verbund has sold its share in the Gletscherbahn Kaprun that was responsible for the worst winter sports tragedy in Austrian history when 155 people died. The Gletscherbahn Kaprun disaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending railway car in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn 2 railway on 11 November 2000. The disaster […]
The first wife of Mick Jagger who is now a European goodwill ambassador has come to Vienna to highlight the fact that the Austrian firm Andritz is involved in a controversial project to build a huge dam in the Amazon rainforest. Bianca met husband to be Mick Jagger at a party after a Rolling Stones […]
Students from the Wels-based FH Oberösterreich have developed what they claim is the world’s first pizza vending machine. In 2007 the school founded its transfer centre for business creation under the leadership of Dr. Gerold Weisz. Under his leadership in the next two years eight successful businesses were grounded as well as exciting initiatives such […]