Two more concert dates for Aura Dione have been announced.It was made public earlier this year that the Danish pop sensation will co-headline the 27th Donauinselfest Vienna set to take place between 25 and 27 June and be the top act at this years Stadtfest Linz festival on 20 August.Now bosses at Viennese WUK club […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Finance Minister Josef Pröll has stressed Austria was “in full support” of the United Nations (UN) and European Unions (EU) strategy over possible sanctions against Iran as he arrived for a three-day visit in Israel yesterday (Weds).Pröll also said discussing strategies how to fight the effects of the economic crisis was the […]
An increasing number of Austrian schools are banning access to social network platforms as more and more students become victims of online mobbing.Schools in the province of Styria have blocked access to websites such as Facebook and MySpace for two years, while dozens of schools in Lower Austria and other provinces recently followed the example.Studies […]
A young Austrian has become the victim of a ruthless kidnapping gang in Venezuela.Amadeus Michael Novak-Ferrari from Graz, Styria, had been missing since 13 April. Now police have found his decaying corpse near Santa Lucia.Novak-Ferrari was working at his grandfathers glass fibre factory and planned to return to Austria to do his six-month mandatory military […]
Freedom Party (FPÖ) chief Heinz-Christian Strache is outraged over “gender disparities” at the defence ministry after female employees were given flower seeds on Valentines Day.The opposition right-winger asked Social Democratic (SPÖ) Defence Minister Norbert Darabos in an official enquiry: “Does work by male staff count for less at your ministry?”Darabos yesterday (Mon) hit back at […]
A football coach kidnapped for one day in Moscow last year has been named new youth department and scouting operations coordinator at Austrian Bundesliga side Mattersburg.Club bosses said today (Tues) Gerhard Hitzel will come in this summer. They added the 62-year-old was expected to become an “interface” between the clubs youth academy, its amateur team […]
By John MorrisBisamberg may have lost one attraction after the giant TV mast was destroyed recently – but it will gain another, at least for a day, when a traditional Dirndl party takes place on Saturday 10th April with Miss Austria Celine Roschek.Bisamberg entrepreneurs Christina Hladik and Renate Knorr are staging the towns first Dirndl […]
Incest beast Josef Fritzl has plans to call for a retrial of his case, a magazine has claimed.Austrian weekly News reports in yesterdays edition (Thurs) that the 75-year-old has been meeting lawyers and reading the thousands of pages of his case to check the chances for a new trail.Fritzl was jailed for life after admitting […]