New free wireless Internet locations in Vienna

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Lifestyle

Around 20 new WIFI hotspots are currently being installed at highly frequented places in Vienna. The districts pay for the costs. The previous pilot projects at the square in front of the town hall and at Danube island have been popular. One station costs between 10,000 and 30,000 Euros, depending on the venue. The public […]

Vienna’s town hall to be renovated over 12 years

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After 130 years of exposure to the weather, the facade of Vienna’s town hall is to be renovated as a whole for the first time. The general renovation of the façade will cost at least 35.7 million Euros but so far undiscovered damage could increase costs. No other building on Vienna’s Ring street has used […]

Hitler hometown deals with sinister past

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The birthplace of Adolf Hitler is showing more and more effort in critically reviewing its dark legacy. A majority of residents of Braunau are confronted with the town’s connection to the Third Reich leader who committed suicide shortly before the end of World War Two (WWII). A study by sociologist Judith Forstner reveals that four […]

Fritzl town’s Hitler honour annulment finds followers

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Politics

Amstetten’s decision to strip Adolf Hitler of his honorary citizenship has triggered a certain sense of nervousness among politicians across the country.The Lower Austrian town – which gained unwanted fame for being the location of the ‘Fritzl incest horror house’ – revoked the honour earlier this week, 66 years after the Austrian-born Nazi dictator’s suicide. […]

Hitler no longer Amstetten citizen of honour

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A town in Lower Austria has stripped Adolf Hitler of his honorary citizenship – 66 years after the Third Reich leader’s death.Hitler – who was born in Braunau, Upper Austria – committed suicide when the World War Two (WWII) defeat of Germany became imminent in April 1945. Now Amstetten Town Hall delegates dispossessed Hitler of […]

Brooke Shields at the ready for Life Ball

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Culture

Brooke Shields will attend this year’s Life Ball, it has emerged.Organisers of the HIVand AIDS awareness event said today (Tues) that the Hollywood star will come to Vienna for the bash at the City Hall on 21 May. Other notable guests of the 19th edition of the ball are former US President Bill Clinton – […]

Official accused of bagging €100,000 of public funds

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A civil servant has been suspended over accusations that he has been embezzling large amounts of town hall assets for years.The man, whose name and age were withheld, faces criminal charges. He is accused of having pocketed around 100,000 Euros throughout the past three years. The losses were discovered in an internal inspection.Police in the […]

Murder investigations over dead car dealer

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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 […]

Fritzl house ‘will be razed next spring’

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The former residence of incest monster Josef Fritzl will be torn down in spring 2011, it has been claimed.Newspapers report today (Tues) that Amstetten City Hall has granted liquidator Walter Anzböck’s request to have the house in 40 Ybbs Street demolished within the next few months. Anzböck initially planned to sell the property to financially […]

Manslaughter charges over climber’s death

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A climber faces involuntary manslaughter charges over the death of a colleague.Prosecutors started investigating today (Tues) after a 21-year-old Styrian passed away on Saturday due to the serious he suffered in a 12-metre fall at a climbing hall in Graz last Wednesday.His friend of the same age is accused of being responsible for the death […]