Austria’s biggest travel agency has revealed that bookings of trips to Greece are up despite the turmoil in the country. Hundreds of thousands downed tools and took to the streets in Athens and elsewhere in the Eurozone member to voice their disagreement with the government’s fiscal decisions. Greece has received hundreds of millions of Euros […]
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IT community denies CIA order
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A Viennese internet and research group has rubbished reports it has been “personally assigned” by US President Barack Obama to create a “bug-proof internet” for the CIA. Newspaper Heute claimed earlier this week that an Austrian firm called FunkFeuer agreed to construct the top-level security system for the USA’s national intelligence agency. The free sheet […]
A demolition worker is fighting for his life after plunging 10 metres to the ground yesterday morning (Weds), it was reported today. The 56-year-old man was part of a group of workers assigned to tear down a building in Vienna’s Simmering district. He was airlifted to a clinic. Officials gave no information considering his state […]
Hiker hospitalised after cow attack
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A woman from Germany suffered serious injuries when a group of holidaymakers were attacked by a herd of cows. The 10-member group of vacationers told police they tried to walk past the heifers on a pasture near St. Nikolai in Styria’s Liezen district when the cows pounced on them yesterday (Weds). The tourists claimed they […]
15 Artists for 15 Wines
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Fifteen Austrian artists came together at the Dominikanerbastei in Vienna this week as part of a unique new project where they are being exhibited together and promoted by the Klasan Advertising Agency. The agency is located at the site of the former Bleich-Rossi gallery in the city’s poshest district that was snapped up last year […]
Pilgrims escape coach crash unharmed
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Dozens of Austrian pilgrims had a narrow escape as their coach crashed on a motorway in Croatia.Local police announced today (Thurs) no one was injured when the vehicle ploughed into a fence erected alongside a motorway near Sestanovac yesterday.Officials told the Croatian Times online newspaper that the group consisting of 47 Austrians were […]
Two men from Vienna got into a fistfight outside a hairdresser’s in western Hungary yesterday (Weds).The Austrians aged 44 and 74 quarrelled about the only vacant parking spot outside the shop in Sopron before pouncing on each other. They were temporarily arrested and questioned after the horrified hairstylist called the police.Meanwhile, police in […]
At least 40 people are facing legal action after around 200 hooligans invaded the pitch in a Football Bundesliga match at the weekend.Vienna police said today (Weds) 40 people will be prosecuted over the incidents in which two police officers were injured. They added that not all of the offenders who stormed the green 26 […]
Austria and Germany are enjoying an economic upturn – bouncing back following the crash in 2008 and recession of 2009.But despite the current positive economic news, companies are being warned of troubled times ahead, and the need to use the current positive situation as a chance to prepare for troubled times ahead.This was the message […]
German gang chief collared
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Austrian police have arrested a man accused of masterminding a German crime syndicate.The 48-year-old was put in detention after travelling on a train from Munich to the Upper Austrian capital of Linz where he was put in detention.German police issued an international arrest warrant on the suspected head of a group of criminals specialised in […]