A young boy had to be hospitalised after he was hit by a lorry in Vienna yesterday (Thurs).The nine-year-old child was crossing the road in the citys Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus district when an oncoming truck knocked him to the ground. He was transferred to a clinic with undisclosed injuries.The driver told police that his view was blocked […]
Workers assigned to build Viennas new main train station have discovered a 250-kilo aerial bomb just days after a similar wartime missile was discovered at the building site.Police said tenants had to be evacuated from approximately 100 apartments located near the large construction site after staff came across the bomb this morning (Fri). It took […]
A 37-year-old resident of Weidling near Klosterneuburg faces criminal charges after police found dozens of marijuana plants in his cellar today (Fri).The man, who was not put in custody, is suspected of selling the drugs harvested from the 60 stocks. Police said they searched his house after having received an anonymous tip-off.Consuming, growing and selling […]
Amstettens Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Herbert Katzengruber has branded reports that teens are regularly going gown into the cellar dungeon built by Josef Fritzl “idiotic lies”.Referring to articles in British newspapers, Katzengruber said today (Fri): “Can our society sink to any further depths? In which world are we living? Im deeply shocked.”The politician said the […]
The number of people living in Austria is increasing, figures presented today (Fri) confirm.Statistic authority Statistik Austria said Austria had 8.402 million residents as of 1 January 2011, 0.3 per cent or 27,600 more than on the same day of last year.Vienna registered the most significant year on year increase among the countrys nine provinces […]
A Styrian pensioner was beaten and chained up by a robber yesterday (Thurs), police in St. Margarethen an der Raab have said.The 75-year-old woman was in the bathroom of her house when a masked man suddenly appeared. The criminal, who did not say a word during the whole break-in, punched the woman in the face […]
An Upper Austrian woman has been sentenced to six years in prison for cutting down trees in her neighbours garden.The 28-year-old was in court in Ried im Innkreis yesterday (Thurs) for axing several spruces in her next-door neighbours back garden with a chainsaw last year. The actions were the final chapter in a bitter feud […]
Four Upper Austrian teenagers are facing youth crime charges for stealing dozens of bottles of schnapps and sweets from a snack bar in Linz last night (Weds/Thurs).The gang of four aged between 15 and 17 were caught trying to break into a sports equipment shop in the city after the stores alarm went off. They […]
Explosives experts of the interior ministry were summoned to defuse two wartime bombs in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, this morning (Thurs).The bombs discovered at a property belonging to the Austrian army were identified as training bombs used by the German Wehrmacht forces in its military drill exercises during World War Two (WWII). No […]
Austrians put more trust in doctors than policemen, new figures show.A poll by the Gallup Institute reveals that the 1,000 interviewed people gave general practitioners an average 8.1 points on a trust index from zero to 10. Police officers were ranked at 6.72 on the scale in which 10 was the top mark.Banks which […]