Two burglars fell asleep after gorging on apple pie, police in Lower Austria have revealed.The friends, aged 39 and 46, stole 60 Euros from a family home in Hohenberg on Saturday night. They then left for a nearby pub where they spent the cash on cigarettes and beer.At closing time, the crooks decided to return […]
A Romanian karate and kickboxing champion has been sentenced to more than four years in jail for seriously injuring a woman during a burglary.The jury at a court in Graz heard yesterday (Tues) how the 30-year-old left his victim lying in a pool of blood in the summer of 2009. The man had gone into […]
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 […]
Sparkassen Immobilien AG, also known as s-Immo, said today (Weds) it suffered losses for the first time in its 22-year history last year.The company which belongs to Austrian bank group Erste announced annual losses reached 78.9 million Euros in 2009. The main factor for this development was a devaluation of its Eastern European […]