Triathlete Hannes Hempel renounced doing the B-test after his positive doping test result in a training control on 8 March. He also announced his immediate retirement. The 39-year-old man from Carinthia, who was banned for four years in 2008, could have been banned again for a long time. “From my experience I can tell that […]
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Man goes on supermarket axe rampage
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A supermarket worker and three supermarket customers were attacked by a man on the rampage with an axe in a supermarket in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The 49-year-old stormed into the supermarket where his 42-year-old ex-wife worked in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna on Monday afternoon armed with an axe and attacked his wife […]
Knifing puts Algerians in clinic
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Two people were hospitalised with stabbing wounds in Vienna-Leopoldstadt yesterday evening (Thurs).Police announced today that two Algerian men aged 21 and 33 were transferred to a hospital after an argument on the street got out of control. Enquiries should reveal the reason for the fight, they said, adding that neither of the counterparts were found […]
Viennese media have claimed there is much speculation surrounding the death of an ambassador at the age of just 42.Fuad Ismayilov – the Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria – died of cardiac failure, according to an official statement. His body will be transferred to Baku, the federal capital of the Eurasian country to be buried, according […]
An Austrian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) has claimed he has been targeted by the Colombian Secret Service over his fight for the rights of farmers in the country.Social Democrat (SPÖ) Jörg Leichtfried said today (Thurs) he got hold of top secret documents revealing that Secret Service officials of the South American country planned […]