Austria has been hit by the eighth case of mad-cow disease (BSE) this year.The federal health ministry announced today (Fri) post mortem tests have shown that a 15-year-old cow which died of old age on a farm in the Lower Austrian district of Wiener Neustadt had the disease.The ministry, headed by Social Democrat (SPÖ) Alois […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich has unveiled plans to set up a country-wide egg-farming database following a recent business scandal.Berlakovichs initiative comes after it emerged that a Styrian company imported substandard eggs from Poland and Hungary to sell them as local products. Recent reports have it that Rohr an der Raab-based Goldmund sold […]
Boldfaced robbers have stolen a Fabergé egg worth half a million Euros from an elderly couples house after they left for a flea market.Police in Theresienfeld, Lower Austria, said today (Tues) the crooks had told curious neighbours they had been ordered to pick something up while they loaded up their car with the 500,000 Euro […]