Appeal Over Mystery of British Embassy Vienna Pics From 1938

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General News

A British hobby historian and photographer is appealing for help in tracking down background to a series of 70 black and white pictures taken by a British embassy employee in Austria sometime around 1938. Ken Johnston, who lives in North West England, is a company director, but he’s also somebody who in his spare time […]

Nagl will new ice sport centre for Special Olympics

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Sports

Mayor of Graz Siegfried Nagl from the ÖVP is supporting the bid for a new Ice Skating Hall in Graz and hopes it can attract federal funding. The planned ice centre would be for the Special Olympics which take place in 2017 in Graz. Under the motto ‘Heartbeat for the World” around 3000 sports people […]

Brit girl seriously injured in Austrian tree plunge

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General News

A 10-year-old British girl is in a serious condition in hospital in Graz in the Austrian province of Styria after failing from a tree. The youngster was on holiday visiting relatives in Nitscha, Austria when she fell four metres from the tree in a children’s playground in a local restaurant. She was airlifted to hospital […]

Trusting time

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Education

The ability to trust is not something that children have automatically at birth but is actually developed in the early years at school according to a new study by psychologists in Graz. Working together with colleagues from the University the Prof Ursula Athenstaedt from the Institute of psychology at the University of Graz together with […]

Austrias motorway operator auctions off snow ploughs and lorries

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General News

ASFINAG has auctioned off 200 vehicles and pieces of equipment in Graz-Raaba (Styria) yesterday (Wednesday) to finance a new car pool. The 200 pieces that went to auction – ranging from small cars to snow ploughs and lawnmowers – were used by ASFINAG, who is responsible for planning, building, maintaining and operating motorways in many […]

New vaccine using bacteria membrane

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Green Austria

The bacteria family of the Pastorellaceae are responsible for several infectious diseases. A team of molecular life scientists from Graz is now trying to find new vaccine “candidates”, which will protect us against these infections. Bacteria emit several kinds of protein and macromolecular particles of their membrane. These round particles are called “membrane vesicles” or […]

The Pope must die claim on Graz Uni website

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Education

An Australian professor of music at the University of Graz in Austria has called for the death sentence for the Pope in an article published on the University’s website. Karl-Franzens-University officials who were bombarded with complaints have now taken the article off-line and confirmed that the article represented the private opinion of Music Professor Richard […]

Underground rape suspect arrested in Graz

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General News

A man accused of raping a 23-year-old woman on an underground line during rush hour in the Austrian capital has been arrested in Graz, Styria. The 25-year-old man from Vorarlberg was recognised at a tram stop by an eyewitness and then arrested and detained in Graz. The young woman boarded the train at the underground […]

Bum groping is not sexual harrasment in Austria

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General News

Austrian prosecutors have dropped sexual harassment charges against a man who pinched the bottom of a woman he saw on the street after saying that sexual harassment can only involve a woman’s breasts or private parts. The incident happened at the start of October when the 43-year-old woman who works in a bank in the […]

Driver drops dead after car chase

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An autopsy has been ordered to try and work out why a 44-year-old man dropped dead after he was given an injection to calm him down after being arrested by police following a high-speed car chase that went from Austria through into Slovenia. The 44-year-old Viennese man sped off from police after a routine spot […]