Police shut a busy motorway to rescue a disorientated family of ducks.Motorists called the local traffic police after spotting how the 12-member family were about to enter the busy three-lane A10 Tauern highway near Golling in Salzburg this morning (Fri).Police officers preliminarily closed the motorway in one direction to save the ducks lives. Three ducklings […]
Designated Peoples Party (ÖVP) chairman Michael Spindelegger may be forced to change his partys strategy as rumours about the looming foundation of a new party are growing.Newspapers report that Veit Sorger, head of the Federation of Austrian Industries (IV), considers setting up a new political movement. The businessman who has hit out at the […]
When the world’s most famous Austrian abroad made his last film he could not resist a plug for his favourite snack. As a result in Terminator 3 the cyborg played by Austrian-born Schwarzenegger grabs a bunch of Manner wafers when shopping for food at the gas station in the desert – and the merciless killing […]
A vast majority think women must know how to run a household, a new study has shown.Research firm IMAS said today (Fri) 77 per cent of Austrian men demand from women of being capable of handling the housework. The pollster highlighted that a majority of 66 per cent of interviewed women said they agreed with […]
A Viennese teen disappeared again after having been missing for weeks.Karin P. failed to return after leaving the family home in the city on 10 January. The black-haired girl has been missing ever since before turning up again a few days ago.Police said today (Tues) that the 15-year-old disappeared once more last Sunday.
Two people were hospitalised after falling from a roof this morning (Fri).Police in St. Georgen near Vöcklabruck in Upper Austria said a 32-year-old woman and a 47-year-old male acquaintance had climbed up on the roof to examine a leaky spot.The woman was dragged down by the man after he lost his balance and slid down […]
Police are hunting a Bosnian man accused of clubbing his wife to death.Miladin G. has been on the run since what is believed to be a wild argument at the family home in Pabing-Nußdorf, Salzburg, on Saturday. The mans wife, 41, was found lying in a puddle of blood on the bedroom floor. A 50-centimetre […]
Investigations are underway after the body of a second-hand car dealer was found in a storage hall in Vienna yesterday (Sun).Police said today the 36-year-old from former Yugoslavia was shot in the head, adding that they did not find a weapon. The corpse was discovered by his family at an industrial estate rented by the […]
A Viennese teenager has been missing for one month, police have said.Officials in the federal capital announced today (Fri) that Karin P. never returned after leaving the family home in the city centre of Vienna on 10 January.The black-haired 15-year-old, who is 155 centimetres tall, occasionally phoned her family after that day. One investigator said […]
A three-year-old girl must have a guardian angel as she survived falling from a balcony yesterday (Weds).The child was clambering around on the balcony at the family home in Prutz, Tyrol, before she fell six metres on to a concreted area. She is being treated in a hospital in Innsbruck. Doctors refused to announce what […]