Austria’s disastrous performance in the summer Olympics has not gone unnoticed in the world where international wire agency Reuters has now put a spotlight on the total failure to get a medal. Reuters reporter Michael Shields wrote that winter can’t come soon enough for Austrian sports fans who he said were lamenting a summer Olympics […]
A young boy who has been unable to eat or drink anything for five years due to a severe phobia has finally taken his first sips thanks to Austrian doctors. English lad Daniel Harrison, 5, would not let anything pass his lips – even though there is nothing physically stopping him. According to the Daily […]
Spanish forward Miguel Ramos has landed in Austria after being signed by Kapfenberger SV. The 28-year-old was under contract to Spanish third league team RSD Alcala, but signed a one year contract with the ‚Falken’ on Wednesday. He also has the option to stay for a further two years. Ramos joined his new team mates […]
Austria Wien beat British Premier League team West Ham 3-1 in a pre season friendly opener on Saturday in Vienna. A record 7150 fans came to the Generali Arena to watch Austria Wien take on the Premier League giants in the extreme hot temperatures in Vienna at the weekend. West Ham opened the scoring when […]
Austrian police have arrested five men from Transylvania who travelled to Spain to steal 9.5 tonnes of garlic. The men needed three large vans to transport the cargo, all of which were stacked to the very top with the stolen garlic cloves. Officers at the border crossing from Austria into Hungary said they had smelt […]
A British soldier has been killed in a rafting accident in Austria. Austrian police said that the 22-year-old British man had come with a group of other members of the British Army from Germany to take part in the rafting at Landeck in Tirol. Austria has seen torrential rain in recent days and experts are […]
There was cause to celebrate in culinary circles this weekend after it was revealed Austria had won a battle to keep its claim to a popular brand of sausage – and its famous pumpkin seed oil. The problem started when Slovenia announced that it wanted the EU to give it rights and control of the […]
A husband has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he set off an avalanche in which his wife subsequently died as they were on a ski tour in Obertauern, Austria in winter 2010. The court in Linz, Austria, yesterday found the 65-year-old guilty of the charges after deciding he had set off the avalanche. […]
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 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 […]