Rapid Vienna missed the chance to benefit from Red Bull Salzburg’s (RBS) mediocre performance. RBS only reached a 2-2 draw against Sturm Graz on Saturday. Rapid failed to beat FK Austria Vienna the next day (0-0). Ried defeated Mattersburg 2-0. The matches between FC Admira and Innsbruck (1-1) and Wiener Neustadt and Kapfenberg (0-0) ended […]
High-ranking representatives of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) have defended controversial slogans of the party’s Tyrolean department. The rightist party’s Innsbruck branch warned from “Moroccan thieves” in rhyme on a recently presented poster. The slogan was part of the FPÖ’s campaign for the upcoming Innsbruck city hall ballot. Residents of the provincial capital of Tyrol will […]
The Freedom party official responsible for an election poster campaign that urged love for all things good and Austrian rather than thieving Moroccans has apologised and had all the posters removed. The slogan “Heimatliebe statt Marokkaner-Diebe” on the Freedom Party placards for local elections in Innsbruck translates as “Love of your home country instead of […]
An Austrian Airlines Airbus plane was hit by lightning this morning and had to return to Vienna. Nobody was injured when lightning struck the 6.35am plane from Vienna airport in Schwechat, Lower Austria, to Innsbruck, Tyrol. Austrian Airlines (AUA) spokesperson Patricia Strampfer explained: “That is nothing unusual in aviation,” adding that lightning is channelled off […]
Europe’s most modern laboratory to examine sleep disorders has opened in Tyrol. Experts at Innsbruck’s University Hospital explained yesterday (Tues) they would check patients’ sleep for two nights each on the new ward which features eight beds. New technology will allow them to precisely analyse people’s sleep. One out of five Europeans suffer from sleep […]
Thousands of homes and offices in Tyrol were without electricity for more than half an hour this morning (Tues). A short circuit – which happened during work on a transformer station near Innsbruck – left around 4,000 households without energy between 9.47am and 10.20am, electricity provider Tiwag explained. Customers were locked in shops as automatic […]
Rapid Vienna are perilously close to failing to qualify for Europe after garnering just one point against Kapfenberg.The team of Zoran Barisic remain in fifth place after their 1-1 in Kapfenberg on Saturday as chances to reach the Europa League are dwindling. Rapid were more often in possession of the ball against the struggling side […]
A 23-year-old Romanian faces legal consequences for driving his car into an Alpine authority official.The 67-year-old Austrian ordered the young man to stop as he was travelling on a cycling path outside Inzing near Innsbruck in Tyrol on Sunday afternoon. The Romanian however hit his accelerator, knocked the man down and drove off.He was tracked […]
Rapid Vienna have retained their chances to win the league for a 33rd time.The team managed by former 1860 Munich boss Peter Pacult beat city rivals Austria Vienna 1-0 away from home yesterday (Sun). It was the first defeat Austria Vienna suffered in the Bundesliga since losing to Rapid last November. Ex-SV Ried star Hamdi […]
A 76-year-old woman is suspected of having smuggled dozens of kilograms of drugs into Austria.Friederike G. was arrested at Innsbruck station yesterday (Thurs). Police, who have been watching the pensioner for several months, said today she was accused of transporting vast amounts of cocaine and heroine from the Netherlands into Austria on train journeys.The elderly […]