The former mayor in Braunau, Upper Austria, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler is to appear in court after taking money from locals to fund his gambling addiction. Ex-mayor Gerhard Skiba is accused of borrowing almost half a million euros from locals claiming it was for relatives of his abroad who are having financial difficulties, and […]
US election news takes second place in Austria today after the shock revelation that the country’s most loved folk music stars have for decades not really been performing the music at all – and have been using stand ins. Folk music involving accordions, various brass wind instruments, lots of yodelling and lederhosen is an art […]
Europe’s biggest mega-brothel is set to open in Austria – with 150 hookers servicing more than 1,000 punters a day. Businessman Peter Laskaris – who’s behind the 16 million Euro scheme – explained: “It’s more than just a brothel. It will be more like a four star hotel with all the usual facilities – but […]
By Rachael Williams A total of 35 jobs will be slashed when Kraft Foods Austria, soon to be known as Mondolez, transfers its premises from the Austrian capital of Vienna to a new plant in Germany in 2013. Trade unions have criticised the move as the first consequence of the intra-group split that happened in […]
A woman has survived unhurt after falling into a crevasse whilst skiing on the Stubtaier glacier in Tirol, Austria. The woman fell two and a half metres down the crevasse whilst skiing at around 3000 metres above sea level. The woman from the Baden area of Lower Austria had ventured off piste to explore and […]
An Austrian doctor has been jailed for life after he was accused of killing a patient that died when he was not even in the building. Surgeon Eugen Adelsmayr was back in his native Austria when the verdict was delivered in his absence, and he branded the ruling a shock. He said: “It is hard […]
Two Romanian conmen who claimed to be collecting money for critically ill children are facing up to 10 years in jail after they were arrested by police in Austria. Prosecutors say that the pair are part of a professional organised begging gang because they were spotted going from house to house at St. Jakob in […]
An adopted Dutchman who flew to Austria to track down his real parents has launched a multi-million pound inheritance claim after discovering his real father was an Austrian property magnate. Ronald Nyman, 42, had been born illegitimately in 1970 in Feldkirch, Austria, and was handed over to a local monastery and then given up for […]
A Green politician sitting on the local council in Wolfsberg wants to see the return of aristocratic titles which were banned in Austria after the first world war. Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen, himself a descendant who would have the title Archduke, wants them to be returned to their former owners and their descendants by 2018 at the […]
Archduke Imre of Austria and his newly-wed wife Archduchess Kathleen Katie Walker are currently honeymooning in India. After visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra and the neighbouring town of Fatehpur Sikri, the royal couple – who had arrived Delhi last week – were spotted exploring the pink city. Although officially Austria has no royal family […]