by Petronilla Hohenwarter & Nigel Stonham Do you want to grow old with me? Let me start by saying YES. Robbie Williams was at Krieau in Vienna last night and we were there. It was a show full of contrasts. Featuring Robbie as both prince charming and as a rude boy. Featuring both shouted lyrics […]
A Styrian extreme sportsman, who has been missing in Switzerland since the beginning of March, was found dead. The 29-year-old man from Graz fell in an attempt to fly through a canyon near Walenstadt in a wing suit. A jump in the Schattenbach canyon in the Swiss canton St Gallen on 3 March 2013 proved […]
A huge crane left over from the war and mounted on top of one of Vienna’s massive Flak towers is set to be taken down after 70 years to make way for a new panorama viewing platform. During the war Vienna built six massive flak towers in which people could take shelter and which were […]
Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner has abandoned her attempt to scale K2 after a Swedish colleague fell to his death this morning (Fri).Kaltenbrunner, 39, was hoping to reach the top of the 8,611-metre mountain in the Pakistani-Chinese border region after five previously failed attempts over the past few years.Karl Gabl of the Austrian Centre for Meteorology […]
Legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong visited Austria last week to take part in a TV chat show aired tonight (Thurs), it emerged.Private broadcaster ServusTV revealed only today that Armstrong the first man on the moon took an invitation to a special edition of the “Talk im Hangar-7” show produced at Salzburg Airport to mark […]
A pretzel put on Facebook by an Austrian student has won the support of hundreds of thousands of netizens.Martin Samorajski from Vienna said he decided to create a platform for the snack in order to find out whether it would spark a larger fan base than German teenage pop band Tokio Hotel.The pretzel had 380,000 […]