A Porsche 911 belonging to Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is to go under the hammer in Vienna, Austria, next month (June 2). The 1979 pearlescent turquoise Turbo model – bought brand new just four years after Gates set up his fledgling software business in 1975 – is expected to sell for up to 50,000 Euros […]
The children’s theatre performance of “Hansel und Gretel” are on the agenda again at the Roman quarry at St Margarethen. A highlight of the performance this year is the 8 m high which is house and the movable stage. It is estimated that around 15,000 visitors will come to visit the performance. Director and stage-builder […]
An Austrian millionaire who became an Internet sensation when he revealed he had given away everything in order to help the poor is really a conman who simply wanted to get publicity to sell his house and pay off his debts. Media around the world rushed to cover the story of Karl Rabeder when he […]
A potential property developer is keen on buying Austrian incest monster Josef Fritzl’s house reports the property’s liquidator Walter Anzböck. The developer reports Anzböck is very interested in redeveloping the Fritzl property completely. He claims the property would be redesigned and rebuilt so it would not resemble the Fritzl house at all. The developer hopes […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, will open a new rat house on Sunday. A variety of the creatures will be on display at the zoo, hoping to improve their image as merely pests and unhygienic rodents. Visitors will be able to meet Rolf Rüdiger, the most famous rat in Austria and organiser […]
A Lower Austrian man has admitted putting his aunt into a freezer to continue raking in social benefits. Officers searched the 89-year-old woman’s house in Neuhofen an der Ybbs yesterday (Mon) after relatives and friends informed them they had not heard from her for some time. Her body was discovered in a deep freezer, officials […]
A museum dedicated to the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger will open this weekend, it has been reported. Styrian newspapers disclosed today (Weds) that the exhibition – set in the house in Thal near Graz where the former politician was born – would focus on three stages of Schwarzenegger’s life. Visitors will learn more about the […]
A basement in which a 75-year-old man kept his own daughter for more than 24 years as his personal sex slave could be filled with concrete.Lawyer Walter Anzböck suggested today (Weds) to pour cement into the cellar chambers of the estate in Amstetten, Lower Austria, where Josef Fritzl raped his daughter Elisabeth, 46, more than […]
Incest monster Josef Fritzl’s house of horror is to be torn down this week.The house on the Ybbsstrasse in Amstetten, Austria, became a world-wide symbol of evil when it was revealed that perverted Fritzl had kept his daughter Elisabeth there as a sex slave for 24-years in a secret dungeon under the family home.The liquidator […]
A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 18 years in prison in a jury trial today (Thurs).The defendant was found guilty by the panel at a court in Klagenfurt of hacking his 29-year-old girlfriend to death with a pickaxe at their house in Lendorf in Carinthia last September.The jury rejected the defence lawyers appeal to allow […]