This is the moment a doting panda mum came eye to eye with her minutes-old cub for the first time after giving birth in an Austrian zoo. Mum Yang Yang gave birth naturally to the four inch long (10 cms) cub at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, a rarity in panda pregnancies. Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: […]
Woody Allen has revealed all eras are “horrible” in his opinion. The celebrated director – whose new movie “Midnight in Paris” will be on at Vienna’s Burgkino this weekend (19 to 21 August) – told the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper today (Weds): “I have to admit I consider all epochs as horrible. We live in a […]
Police have said an errant shot during a pheasant hunt could have caused a technical failure in railway operations.Officials in Fehring, Styria, said today (Mon) they had investigated the local railway lines guarded barriers after a breakdown over the weekend. They said a switchbox went out of order due to what seems to be a […]
Catholic Church killjoys have ordered a parish to take its confessional box auction offline – right after the highest bid was exactly 666 Euros.Priest Otto Weber of cash-strapped Hirschstetten parish in Vienna-Donaustadt decided to offer one of the churchs confessional boxes on eBay to carry out essential renovations.But Archdiocese Vienna decision-makers forced the canny cleric […]
An Upper Austrian mayor has received a praline box containing two dead mice and an anonymous, threatening letter, according to website krone.at.Walter Ernhard, the Social Democratic (SPÖ) mayor of Ansfelden in Upper Austrias Linz-Land district, confirmed the report and said today (Fri) he was very disturbed by the package.Ernhard said he had received it on […]