Grass sking World Championships Begin

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The junior World Grass Sking Championships was opened in Rettenbach, Burgenland in Austria yesterday evening (Weds) for the third consecutive year. Keen skiers from ten countries will battle it out to become grass ski champion. The Austrian Ski Team is represented by six skiers from four provinces, including Kristin Hetfleisch, Lisa Wusits and Andreas Guttmann. […]

Artist sparks police murder hunt

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An Austrian concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she’d taken of of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers. Sigrid Fleckseder and partner Christian Thomas had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a […]

Drunk smoker falls off balcony

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A sozzled teenager fell off a balcony while having a cigarette, police in Vienna said yesterday (Thurs). The 19-year-old attended a party in a third-floor flat in Vienna-Meidling on Wednesday night. He landed on a patch of grass in the housing estate’s inner courtyard. The young man was allegedly sitting on the balcony railing smoking […]

Red Bull Arena may get natural grass pitch

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Red Bull Salzburg has revealed plans to replace the stadium’s artificial grass pitch with natural soil in a bid to host national team matches.Dietmar Beiersdorfer, head of energy drink producer Red Bull’s football department, said today (Thurs): “We like the idea of our stadium being the venue of matches of the national team in the […]