A French woman suffered fatal head and chest injuries when a bolting horse charged into her on Saturday, it has emerged.Officials in Hinterglemm, Salzburg, said today (Mon) the 73-year-old on holiday with her husband died in an ambulance on its way to a nearby clinic after the dramatic incident.Police said the 16-year-old Haflinger […]
Austrian construction top dog Strabag SE has won a second major assignment in Abu Dhabi within two months, it has been revealed.Company CEO Hans Peter Haselsteiner announced today (Weds) Strabags German subsidiary Züblin held 47.5 per cent of the assigned consortium, adding that the port construction project had a value of 105 million Euros.The new […]
Police are hunting a Chinese fraudster who fled after trying to exchange stolen traveller checks worth almost 800 Euros.Graz police announced today (Fri) the man attempted to turn American Traveller Cheques worth 1,000 US dollars (790 Euros) into money at a city centre bank yesterday.The conman left his passport behind as he ran away after […]
Wels firemen have been kept busy after a man locked himself in his own toilet around midday today (Fri).Officials in the Upper Austrian city said worried neighbours called fire-fighters after hearing the mans cries for help.The local fire brigade was preparing to break down the apartment door when the 44-year-olds son arrived with a spare […]
Andreas Okopenko has died aged 80 at a hospital in Vienna, it was reported today (Mon).The Slovakian-born writer who passed away yesterday is regarded as one of the most important contributors to Austrias “avant-garde literature”.Okopenko was praised for his daring works. His best known is a marketing campaign for Humanic in which he experimented with […]
Boris Becker will attend this years Life Ball, it was announced today (Thurs).Organisers of the HIV/AIDS awareness event set to take place at Vienna City Hall on 17 July said the German tennis legend and his wife Lilly will be among star guests.They added former US President Bill Clinton and “Sister Act” star […]
A Carinthian has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for killing a man by kicking his head “like a football” when an argument got out of control.The jury at Klagenfurts provincial court heard today (Tues) how the 21-year-old booted his opponents skull at a park in the city in June 2008. Witnesses said in […]
A Romanian gang leader suspected of setting a prostitute on fire in Vienna has been arrested in the Netherlands, according to newspapers.Viennese dailies report today (Weds) that Adrian Bogdan Negrei was caught in the city of Amsterdam while potential accomplices were still being sought. Police have not yet commented on the claims.A Europe-wide hunt for […]
Viennas officials are sick 20 days a year, the Austrian Peoples Party ÖVP has said.The ÖVP has blamed mobbing and bad working environment in offices for the high amount of sick days.”To work for the city of Vienna makes you sick,” ÖVP representative Wolfgang Ulm said during the current Viennese election campaign.”Public officials in Lower […]
A Burgenland pensioner died after falling off a tree yesterday (Tues).Police in Gols said today the man, 77, wanted to cut some of the trees branches in his garden. But after climbing onto a treehouse to cut the branches the roof collapsed sending him plunging five metres to the ground.The man, who was found lying […]