Premiership giants Liverpool FC will play Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal in Altach, Vorarlberg, on 17 July.Organisers said today (Tues) the friendly will mark the 20th anniversary of the towns stadium which used to be called Schnabelholz. The venue, which has a capacity of 8,500, was recently renamed Cashpoint Arena after the local second-league teams main […]
Austrian soccer fans are getting a real taste of world class football as 10 of the 32 teams qualified for the upcoming Football World Cup chose Austria to prepare for the biggest sports event of the year.All eyes will be on the England squad when they test against Japan on Sunday. Coach Fabio Capello is […]
American alternative rock band Interpol will come to Vienna in November, it has been announced.Britishrock.cc reports that the three-member group, who recently finished recording their upcoming fourth studio album, are set to perform at the citys Gasometer concert hall on 18 November.Interpol, who rose to fame in 2002 when they debut album “Turn On the […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Finance Minister Josef Pröll has stressed Austria was “in full support” of the United Nations (UN) and European Unions (EU) strategy over possible sanctions against Iran as he arrived for a three-day visit in Israel yesterday (Weds).Pröll also said discussing strategies how to fight the effects of the economic crisis was the […]
Austria suffered four places in the FIFA world ranking released today (Weds).The team, which has been coached by former Mainz 05 manager Dietmar Constantini for around one year, fell from 64th to 68th place.Brazil lead the ranking ahead of Euro2008 winners Spain who will arrive in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg for a […]
Quentin Tarantino will visit Austria to look for a location for an upcoming film about Dracula, it has been reported.Austrian press claimed over the weekend that the “Pulp Fiction” director will stay for four nights in Vienna to visit castles in the nearby countryside.Oscar winner Nicolas Cage spent some weeks in Austria to shoot supernatural […]
An elderly farmer suffered a fractured lower leg as a cow kicked her during milking this morning (Mon).The woman, 64, from Gradnitz in Lower Austria was transferred to a clinic in Zwettl after her husband and son heard her screams while working in the kitchen.It was the latest in a series of incidents involving farm […]
Forty-one per cent of Austrians will not go on holiday this year, according to the results of a new poll by Linz public-opinion research firm IMAS released today (Tues).Six per cent said they had already been on holiday, seven per cent said they had already taken part of their planned holiday, and 46 per cent […]
Every third Austrian who will go on holiday this year will do so in Austria, according to the results of a new poll by the Institute for Tourism and Leisure-Time Research released today (Mon).It said 10-to-15 per cent of the 50 per cent of Austrians who were planning to go on holiday had changed their […]
Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies in trouble and expensive hazelnuts are hurting Viennese sweets producer Manner financially.The firm reported today (Weds) that its turnover declined by 6.7 per cent year on year to 35.8 million Euros in the first quarter of 2010. Turnover declined substantially in Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia and also fell in […]