Kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has revealed she is worried about whether she will be a mother one day.The 21-year-old told Austrian weekly magazine News: “Kids, family thats very complicated. It has a lot to do with responsibility and there would, of course, be fears something could happen to my children.”Kampusch said it was […]
Boldfaced robbers have stolen a Fabergé egg worth half a million Euros from an elderly couples house after they left for a flea market.Police in Theresienfeld, Lower Austria, said today (Tues) the crooks had told curious neighbours they had been ordered to pick something up while they loaded up their car with the 500,000 Euro […]
A 94-year-old woman was hospitalised with smoke poisoning after her house caught fire as she tried to put another log in her oven.The fire spread quickly throughout the whole house after the pensioner dropped burning piece of wood on the floor in Patsch, Tyrol.She managed to get clear in time, and local fire-fighters rescued her […]
Police have said they will interrogate a Styrian technician who suffered burns when explosives blew up at his home.Provincial police investigator Günter Peterka said today (Fri) the 26-year-old Edelschrott resident was hospitalised at a Graz clinic with second and third degree burns after Wednesday nights incident.He added officers found gun powder and other substances at […]
Hundreds of residents were evacuated in Vienna yesterday (Sun) over fears their apartment building might collapse.Officials said the renters of the 100-odd apartments in Machstraße will be kept from returning until at least tomorrow.Experts feared the 50-year-old eight-storey building might come down due to activities on a nearby construction site and massive permanent rainfall. They […]
A man in debt in Tadten in Burgenlands Neusiedl am See district set his own house on fire early Saturday morning, police said.The man, 35, used flammable liquid to torch the house in four different places.Police said the man had given contradictory accounts of what had supposedly happened and finally confessed to having started the […]
By Thomas HochwarterWinters with temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees centigrade. Not a soul within 20 kilometres. And the occasional brown bear ogling through the kitchen window.A situation which might be regarded as a perfect nightmare or the perfect plot for an adventure movie by most. But for Austrian Manuela Zeitlhofer, it […]