It is being hailed as a sensation after scientists at an Austrian university patented a method that transforms fat storing cells into mini factories capable of actually destroying fat by burning it off. And the incredible discovery means that in theory people who are overweight will actually end up losing weight at a faster rate […]
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Austrians designers have been flourishing within the last couple of years. Some of the young and aspiring designers who are still up and coming have released their Spring/Summer collections for 2014 and they shouldn’t be missed. Young duo Mark and Julia are two very creative designers from upper Austria who teamed up together while attending […]
A female ice cream parlour owner accused of killing her husband and boyfriend and entombing their bodies in tubs in her shop cellar is to stand trial on Monday (nov 19). Cold blooded Estíbaliz Carranza, 32 – dubbed the Ice Lady – is said to have hacked her victims’ bodies into pieces and cemented them […]
Baby grave found by builders
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Builders digging up land for a bypass at Schützen am Gebirge in Burgenland have unearthed a child’s grave dating back to Roman times. Archeologists say that the tiny grave surrounded by heavy stones had been undisturbed until it was found by the road workers, and that it dated back to the first century after Christ. […]
Psychiatrists have given the go-ahead for the prosecution of a Polish cleaning lady accused of poisoning her employers shortly after they agreed to leave her all their possessions. The woman was named only as Bogumila W., 51, because of data protection laws that prevent police from revealing her full name. The woman was arrested after […]
Artist sparks police murder hunt
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An Austrian concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she’d taken of of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers. Sigrid Fleckseder and partner Christian Thomas had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a […]
Researchers studying Oetzi, a 5,300-year-old caveman found frozen in the Italian Alps in 1991, have found red blood cells around his wounds. The body of the iceman was found frozen under the ice on the mountainous border between Austria and Italy by a hiker, sparking a bitter row between the two countries over which could […]
A helicopter pilot could face manslaughter charges after heavy cloud meant he failed to realise how high they were when he released a rope – and dropped a mountain rescue expert to his death. Alpine policeman Franz Franzeskon, 52, and two colleagues were being lowered on a harness in a bid to rescue a 40-year-old […]
Body without legs was missing Serb
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A Serbian man living in Vienna who waited home for washing machine repair man to turn up has been discovered dead and without his legs in a woodland. The man’s body was found on Thursday near Gablitz and over the weekend he was identified as 57-year-old Serb Marinkovic Milenko. He vanished shortly after dropping off […]
Doctors treating singer George Michael on the 13th floor of the Vienna AKH general hospital say his condition has worsened overnight. He was hospitalised on Monday after a doctor was called to his suite at the Hotel imperial in Vienna’s posh first district and diagnosed breathing difficulties. He was taken by ambulance to the city’s […]