The German businessmen and animal lover who created a real-life animal farm where all of the residents are animals has celebrated his 60th birthday with all of his animal friends – and a few celebrities. Michael Aufhauser made a fortune in industry but then sold everything to buy the Gut-Aiderbichl farm in Salzburg which he […]
The Eurovision Young Musicians Competition will open the Vienna Festival (Wiener Festwoche) this week on the 11th of May. The Eurovision Young Musicians Competition is one of the most important international contests for classical music, which since 1982 has been taking place every two years. The competition wants to extend cultural exchange beyond national borders […]
Hansel and Gretel Returns
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The children’s theatre performance of “Hansel und Gretel” are on the agenda again at the Roman quarry at St Margarethen. A highlight of the performance this year is the 8 m high which is house and the movable stage. It is estimated that around 15,000 visitors will come to visit the performance. Director and stage-builder […]
Clampdown on off piste skiing
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Vorarlberg has been looking at ways to improve safety for winter sports lovers while off piste and has come up with a series of measures to make it safer and also to protect the natural environment. Among the measures are increased fines for people who breach the rules. After the heavy snowfalls of the last […]
Family who lost everything helped
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Austrian firemen in Melk in Lower Austria have been praised after stepping in to help a Chechen family of four who lost everything when their car burst into flames. The couple and their two children could only look on in tears as their car caught fire as they travelled along the Westautobahn near Melk. Fire […]
A German politician for the newly-formed Pirate party is earning his money through a 49 per cent share in a brothel in upper Austria. Tobias Wandinger, 30, was elected to the Feldmoching-Hasenbergl District Council in Bavaria in Germany recently. But it has now emerged that the newly elected politician is also earning his money from […]
By Fidan Aliyeva in Vienna One of toppled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s top official’s has been discovered dead floating in the river Danube. Shukri Ghanem, 69, who was Libyan prime minister between 2003 and 2006, was dressed normally when he left his home on Sunday morning and was found dead in the Danube at 6:40am […]
Body without legs was missing Serb
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A Serbian man living in Vienna who waited home for washing machine repair man to turn up has been discovered dead and without his legs in a woodland. The man’s body was found on Thursday near Gablitz and over the weekend he was identified as 57-year-old Serb Marinkovic Milenko. He vanished shortly after dropping off […]
Baths shut as temperatures sore
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Vienna has notched up the hottest April on record and in the inner city on Saturday temperatures reached 29.4°C. The hot weather lured many people outside but anybody hoping for a dip in the capital would be disappointed – as regardless of the weather the city always keeps the pools closed until second of May. […]
Conman operated for 24 years
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Austrian police have arrested a conman from Wels in upper Austria who allegedly travelled the country for 24 years defrauding people and businesses as he went. Police were alerted to the man’s activities after an acquaintance of his complained that they had lent him €7000 in a written contract – and that he was refusing […]