The Dutch Royal family have said they will continue to have their winter holiday in Lech in Austria despite the accident that left Prince Johan Friso in a coma. The Prince was buried in an avalance while skiing off piste with a friend. But the Royal family have said that they still plan to come […]
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Austrian cellar monster Josef Fritzl has had his revenge on his long suffering wife Rosemarie with the granting of a divorce from her while serving life imprisonment. Rosemarie wanted nothing more to do with him after his terrible crimes against their daughter were exposed – but she wanted to keep his name in order to […]
Kid dumped on the way to Berlin
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Austrian police are hunting a refugee family from Syria who dumped one of their children at the train station in Vienna after discovering that they didn’t have enough money to buy all three of their children a ticket for the final part of their journey to Berlin. The family of five had reportedly paid smugglers […]
Austrian Royals on India honeymoon
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Archduke Imre of Austria and his newly-wed wife Archduchess Kathleen Katie Walker are currently honeymooning in India. After visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra and the neighbouring town of Fatehpur Sikri, the royal couple – who had arrived Delhi last week – were spotted exploring the pink city. Although officially Austria has no royal family […]
Palais Liechtenstein in Vienna’s Alsergrund district will be showing previously unseen works of art from October. The reason for the new presentation is the fact that 150 objects are going on a tour to Japan from 3 October to 9 June next year. As a result they will be replaced by objects that have been […]
An Austrian distiller has been awarded a gold medal for his ‘Organic Vodka’ at the International Wine and Spirits Competition 2012 in London. Josef Farthofer, from the Austrian Mostviertel won the only Austrian gold medal at the event where more than 2,400 spirits were put to the test. Judges described the vodka as ‘squeaky clean […]
Hotel Rebuild after Christmas fire
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Builders are working overtime at Saalbach-Hinterglemm in Pinzgau to rebuild the “Glemmtalerhofs” hotel in time for the winter season. The property was almost completely destroyed and that was practically just a shell left after a blaze at Christmas. Luckily for the Schnell family that owned the property – the rebuilding work is being covered by […]
Family who lost everything helped
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Austrian firemen in Melk in Lower Austria have been praised after stepping in to help a Chechen family of four who lost everything when their car burst into flames. The couple and their two children could only look on in tears as their car caught fire as they travelled along the Westautobahn near Melk. Fire […]
Imperial splendour for families for 15
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Austrian Minister for Families Reinhold Mitterlehner has organised a special family ticket for the “Long Night of the Family” on 6 May that allows entry to things connected to the Habsburgs. From Schloss Schönbrunn or the world’s oldest zoo, through to Schloss Hof – the ticket allows all the attractions to be visited with a […]
Women’s Minister Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek promised to keep fighting gender disparities on the labour market as a survey shows that men earn significantly more than women of the same social background. Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) researchers compared the careers of 250 graduates to find out that the pay gap between the male and […]