Mum left rattled after being bitten by snake in pram

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A young mum was bitten on the ankle by a poisonous snake after it hitched a lift to her flat in a city centre apartment inside a child’s pram when she went for a walk in a nearby wood at St Florian am Inn in Upper Austria. Jacqueline Osterkorn, 20, had left the pram in […]

Out of wedlock birth rate up

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More than four in 10 babies were born out of wedlock last year, figures presented today (Thurs) reveal.Austrian statistic authority Statistik Austria announced that 40.1 per cent of all babies born in 2010 were born out of wedlock, up slightly from 39.2 per cent in the previous year.Carinthia registered the highest share of illegitimate births […]

Happy-snappy newborns at Schönbrunn Zoo

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A crocodile couple have had babies for the first time in their 18-year residence at an Austrian zoo.Officials at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo said yesterday (Sun) that the Morelet’s crocodile pair have become parents to three babies.The adult reptiles called Durango and Puebla moved into the zoo’s “crocodile pavilion” in 1993 but never had any newborns […]

Monovular triplets born in Klagenfurt

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A Carinthian woman has given birth to monovular triplets, it has emerged.Doctors at the Klinikum Klagenfurt hospital said today (Weds) the overjoyed mum and her girls were doing fine after last Friday’s birth. They stressed that the chances of give birth to single egg triplets was one in 200 million.A spokesman for the clinic said […]